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...Charles Chaplin, who likes to make pictures at leisure and in secrecy, was at work last week on the script of his latest movie, the first since Monsieur Verdoux drooped at the box office in 1947. Called Footlights, it was to go into production late this summer, with Comedian Chaplin supported by his son, 24-year-old Sidney Chaplin, in his first screen role. The story will deal with a clown who has lost the ability to make people laugh. The source for this much information was son Sidney, who noted: "People will think it's about my father...
Best alltime film: 1939's Gone With the Wind (which was also one of the best at the box office with a $33 million gross). Best actor: Charlie Chaplin. Best actress: Greta Garbo...
...industry's oldtimers, balloting separately for their silent-screen favorites, again picked Chaplin and Garbo, named Griffith as both director and producer, and his The Birth of a Nation as the best movie. In the sound-film category, G.W.T.W. won again hands down; Samuel Goldwyn and William Wyler, the makers of The Best Years of Our Lives, won the producers and director's laurels. Spencer Tracy nosed out Sir Laurence Olivier as the best actor. Best sound-film actress: Ingrid Bergman...
Died. Sidney Arthur ("Sid") Field, 45, bulb-nosed British comic who soared to fame in wartime revues (Strike a New Note, Strike It Again); in Richmond, Surrey. Disdaining the fast gag, Field mixed the pathetic and the preposterous into an art reminiscent of Chaplin's, but with a slapdash gusto...
Five American products are on the program: Charlie Chaplin's "The Circus," Thursday, February 16; "The informer," with Victor McLaglen; Tuesday, February 21; "The Kiss,"' with Greta Garbo, March 2; "Of Mice and Men," with Burgess Meredith, April 11; and Chaplin in "Tillie's Punctured Romance," April...