Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardest hit by the deal were David O. Selznick and United Artists, who up to last week seemed to have the inside track on Rank. United Artists still had distribution rights to eight Rank pictures, including Caesar and Cleopatra, one of the most expensive pictures ($5,000,000) ever made. But from now on, United World gets first pick of all Rank pictures, regardless of what other dickering Rank may do with Selznick or any other U.S. firm...
...position of the Vatican on collaborationist clergymen was not clearly defined. Official feeling was embodied in an age-old, unwritten law of the Church that its prelates, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion. The law is, in effect: any prelate whose personal conduct, past or present, gives rise to discussion or dissension which might reflect unfavorably on the Church must feel duty-bound-guilty or not-to renounce his dignity to prevent adverse discussion of the Church...
...Caesar was the first big by-liner to do it, and it's been going on ever since: when a general finishes a war, he sits down and writes about it. Last week this postwar prerogative got off to a pedestrian start when Major General Edward P. King Jr. led off with five articles (for NANA) about his internment in Jap prison camps. A faster-talking general, in a press interview, had already stolen General King's newsiest plum: that King's superior (and prison roommate), General Jonathan M. Wainwright, was twice knocked down by Jap guards...
Gabriel Pascal, British movie producer, went to Egypt to film Caesar and Cleopatra, found the Sphinx unphotogenic, imported a British-made model, left it behind after the shooting-inscribed: "With the compliments of [Cinemagnate] J. Arthur Rank...
Divorced. Mervyn LeRoy, 44, M.G.M.'s short, cigar-smoking producer-director (Little Caesar, Anthony Adverse, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo); by Doris Warner LeRoy, 33, eldest daughter of Harry M. Warner of Hollywood's three Warner Bros.; after seven years of marriage, two children; in Reno...