Word: cassard
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Discovery. Eddie's arrival in Hollywood provided an answer to Olympia Studios' most stunning problem: what to do with the exact duplicate of Paris' Gare St.-Lazare which somebody had constructed on the lot. And it ended the creative impasse between Scripters Ludlow Mumni and Maurice Cassard. Mumm was a solemn, devout Manhattan liberal who was driven to picket lines by a chauffeur. Cassard was a rumpled, realistic Frenchman, who admitted to an impulse to vomit into the hats of "Stork Club Communists." They were working together on the script of Moses Fable's preposterous musical...
Working with Dirty Eddie, Cassard thought he could make a big boffola* of Will Y.ou Marry Me? The Gare St.-Lazare became Chicago's La Salle Street Station -a more appropriate background for Eddie, who played a key role in a plot more complicated than Crime, and Punishment. Eddie was sensational. Said Producer Vanya Vashvily: ". . . the worst director can't harm him. His left profile is as good as his right." But trouble started when, right in the middle of shooting, the farmer who owned Eddie refused to let him act at a piddling $40 a week...
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