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...famous Hollywood team of Director Frank Capra & Writer Robert Riskin have wowed the public with several fairly intimate little pictures including It Happened One Night and You Can't Take It With You. They have also wowed the public with whoppers: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon. Director Capra, working without his Alter Ego Riskin, wowed the public with the heroic scale of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The bigger these pictures have gotten, the simpler have been their basic sentiments. The vast Tibetan spaces of Lost Horizon enclosed the theme BE KIND (Capra's own description...
Next week Warner Brothers releases the biggest Capra-Riskin picture to date, Meet John Doe. Capra-Riskin produced it independently, spent seven months on it and $1,100,000. They sat down at a great Hollywoodian organ, used every last stop, smote every key on every manual. Yet they built their music around one of the simplest and oldest of themes: LOVE THY NEIGHBOR...
...Army wants from Hollywood within a year 100 reels, for which it may eventually spend up to $5,000,000. Chairman Freeman drafted kinetic little Darryl Zanuck to boss production, Frank Capra to direct directors, Edward Arnold to handle actors, Sheridan Gibney to watch writers, Fox's Alfred Newman to superintend music. Under this imposing superstructure, whose services go free, the industry's younger, less expensive workmen will labor for pay in cooperation with the Army's Signal Corps to turn out the product...
...first anti-block booking bill. Last of 17 successors-none of which passed-was the third Neely Bill. Movie lobbyists kept it at bay until 1939, when the Senate jammed it through in two days. Hollywood lobbyists quaked when Sam Rayburn, Democratic House leader, objected to Frank Capra's biting Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, blurted, "It won't do the movies any good." Nevertheless they stopped the Neely Bill in the House...
...autumn as "Motion Pictures' Greatest Year." Publicity men beat out stories explaining that 1940 would see a swing from heavy drama to relaxing comedy and musicals. At Fox, Darryl Zanuck wound up The Great Profile, in which John Barrymore does a savage satire on his scrambled life. Frank Capra was te diously struggling over his latest comedy, Meet John Doe. Comics Jack Benny and Fred Allen were immortalizing their radio feud on celluloid at the Paramount...