Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Hollywood was eying television with deep interest: ¶ The first top-rank movie star to get into TV on a contract basis was Oscar Winner Ronald Colman. For an undisclosed sum, said Producer Ben Finney, Colman had agreed to narrate and act in 26 half-hour telefilms: 13 Charles Dickens stories, and 13 by Robert Louis Stevenson. Colman may also narrate a series of O. Henry dramas...
Australia's Shirley Maycock, onetime swimming double for British Star Jean Simmons (Great Expectations, Black Narcissus), arrived in London with a picture contract of her own, promptly made a memorable picture with Actress Simmons...
...Toronto, after four months of playing cat & mouse with professional offers, Canada's 20-year-old Barbara Ann Scott (TIME, Feb. 2) allowed herself to be caught. The dainty figure skater signed a contract with a talent agency whose other clients include Hollywood's Shirley Temple, Joan Fontaine, Jimmy Stewart. Then she took some time off to worry about her freckles. Most likely assignment: the movies...
...After 16 years, Walter Winchell and his longtime sponsor, the Jergens Co., agreed to part company when their contract ends next Dec. 31. The split came when Jergens tried to plug Dryad, a deodorant, with a commercial that was too malodorous for Winchell (". . . decaying action of bacteria in perspiration . . ."). Winchell did not need to worry about losing Jergens' $390,000 a year. His network, ABC, rushed in and signed him to a $520,000-a-year contract (to prevent him from going to CBS), promised to turn over anything extra that another sponsor might want...
...booklet is a catechism of preparedness which the board wants every manufacturer to answer, at least to his own satisfaction. It covers everything from contract negotiations to plans for the "emergency housing for the new workers you'll need." Sample questions: "What measures could you take to protect your personnel during work hours in an air attack? What provisions have been made to detect the existence of subversive elements on your payroll...