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...closed down was Fox's Hollywood studio, in a move that will mean the suspension of more than half of the studio's 600 employees, or "all studio personnel not now actively engaged in editing and completing Cleopatra or assigned to future television projects or preparing screen plays." It meant that General Zanuck would have fewer troops under his command, but he obviously feels that his army must travel light...
...Gift, a 40-minute movie made by a young commercial artist named Herbert Danska, cost exactly $3,123.17-or approximately one ten-thousandth of the sum spent on Cleopatra. But sometimes talent is worth more than Taylor. The Gift is the most brilliantly original...
Elizabeth Taylor will stuff more than $1,300,000 into her cleavage for Cleopatra -one of the highest fees ever paid for a professional woman. Marlon Brando is getting more than $1,000,000 for Mutiny on the Bounty. And Cary Grant, who could probably buy Scotland if he cared to, took 75% of the profits of Operation Petticoat. Profits to date...
Film companies start out to make a picture for, say, $6,000,000, like Mutiny on the Bounty, and it ends up costing about $20 million. Maundering Marlon had much to do with that, just as Elizabeth Taylor shot the budget of Cleopatra into the stratosphere. Star salaries, demands and delays put too much economic weight on the top of a motion picture. The employees have been ruining the business...
Last week the vastly overblown sway of the great stars seemed to have been dealt a strong but reasonable blow. Hurting after blowing $30 million on Cleopatra in Rome, 20th Century-Fox was in no mood to put up with fresh indignities in Hollywood. First, they fired Marilyn Monroe for her spectacular absenteeism from Something's Got to Give, and replaced her with Lee Remick. But then the studio had to contend with Co-Star Dean Martin (salary: $300,000), who refused the substitution. O.K., said Fox; no public apology, no Marilyn. But, predicted one studio executive at week...