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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, still the most potent producing plant in Hollywood, had more than David Copperfield and a Prime Minister to ballyhoo. Prime factors in the past success of Metro pictures have been 1) "star-power"; 2) Irving Thalberg. First two pictures on Producer Irving Thalberg's schedule are The Merry Widow, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, directed by Ernst Lubitsch; and Pearl Buck's The Good Earth for which exteriors have already been filmed in China. Cinemaddicts, who have lately been warned by the Roman Catholic Church's Legion of Decency to cast a suspicious...
Other books: Goodbye to All That; Lawrence and the Arabs; The Real David Copperfield (TIME, March 26); Collected Poems; Poems...
George Cukor has just returned from England. Now this in itself is not a remarkable fact, but in this instance George has been in the tight little isle with a very definite purpose in mind. To lay the finger on the spot, Hollywood has decided that David Copperfield is a good subject for macoration, and Mr. Cuker has been in England getting local color with the aid of a Baedeker's Guide...
...DAVID COPPERFIELD-Charles Dickens; condensed by Robert Graves; edited by Merrill P. Paine-Harcourt, Brace ($1.00). When Robert Graves's The Real David Copperfield appeared in England last year, critics shouted "Blasphemy!" Author Graves had laid impious hands on the sacred text of David Copperfield, had dared not only to abridge it but also to rewrite it. Calling David Copperfield an autobiographical novel in which Dickens "for once . . . felt personally committed to the truth,'' and which he managed to keep "honest, though diluted, for quite a third of the way," Author Graves pointed out the patent fact...
Five million members of Dickens clubs hoped The Life of Our Lord would start a Dickens revival. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has already announced a film version of David Copperfield...