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MOVIE PRODUCERS In his own inner eye, Producer Samuel Bronston sees himself as a kind of extraspectacular Cecil B. De Mille. He is earnestly trying to promote that notion, splash by splash. And he seems to be succeeding...
When they agreed, he hired Bette Davis, Robert Stack and Thomas Mitchell, and spent $4,000,000 overall. John Paul Jones, released in 1959, was not a great success, but it did make enough money to persuade Bronston's sponsors to give him another...
...Boxer sword dancers who had terrified the guests with their choreographic snickersnee until Heston got into the act and threatened to slice the fattest of the group into Boxer shorts. Next morning the German ambassador gets a sword right in the middle of the international compound, and Samuel Bronston's spectacularized version of the Boxer Rebellion is under...
...long since become an Arabian film star nearly as celebrated as his wife, who is currently making her 80th picture, in Cairo. Since Sam Spiegel cast him in Lawrence, Omar has felt the pull of the West. He is now in Spain, ready to start work in Samuel Bronston's Fall of the Roman Empire. He plays an Armenian king who falls in love with Sophia Loren, beloved daughter of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. "It is not a very long part," says Omar grandly, "but it is pivotal. I believe that after having been known so long chiefly...
...court on two continents. In Rome, her fond discoverer, Producer Carlo Ponti, was racing to annul their marriage before they could be booked for bigamy (Italy does not recognize Ponti's divorce from his first wife). In New York Supreme Court, where Sophia was suing Bronston Productions, Inc. because she was billed below Charlton Heston on a Broadway sign ballyhooing El Cid. Justice Samuel Hofstadter chucked out her requested injunction. Said he: "Such vanity doubtless is due to the adulation which the public showers on the denizens of the entertainment world in a profusion wholly disproportionate to the intrinsic...