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While Frank Capra was still wearing Signal Corps eagles, he began to discuss independent production with Samuel J. Briskin, onetime vice president of RKO and Columbia. Early in 1945, Liberty Films was incorporated. Briskin took on the job of executive management, leaving Capra free to do all the details of picture making-from story selection to final film editing. With the machinery set up, it seemed a pity not to ask in a couple of other topnotch directors. George Stevens (Penny Serenade, The More the Merrier) is already at work. William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver, Wuthering Heights), under contract to make...
Born. To Betty Hutton, 25, raucous, rampageous cinemactress; and Theodore Briskin, 28: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Lindsey Diane. Weight...
...Monday luncheon at plush Perino's, the Association of Motion Picture Producers sent in the first team-M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer, Goldwyn's Sam Goldwyn, Paramount's Henry Ginsberg, RKO's Charles Koerner, Universal's Nate Blumberg, Columbia's Irving Briskin, Fox's Lew Schrieber and Joe Schenck, everybody's Will Hays. Rank talked easily, but not about his plans. He liked the fried chicken...
...wiseacres sometimes call the sonorous roll of an elite society known as the R.K.O. Alumni Association, for R.K.O has let more talent slip through its fingers than it has kept. Examples: David Selznick (now de facto head of United Artists), William Le Baron (now sparking 20th-century Fox), Sam Briskin (who has helped put Columbia into the big money), Joan Fontaine (whom R.K.O. once had for practically nothing a week—as Hollywood salaries go—but had to borrow back last year at $75,000 for Suspicion), Katharine Hepburn, Jack Oakie, ired Astaire, Ginger Rogers...
Unwilling to miss a trick, Cinemakers Darryl F. Zanuck, Walter Wanger and Sam Briskin hired the United Press "executive leased wire service" for war coverage-about 10,000 words daily on new streamlined, silent teletype machines. Cost per month...