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...million," say publicity flacks), 20th Century-Fox is producing two more: the late Fulton Oursler's The Greatest Story Ever Told (for which the studio is paying a cumulative $2,000,000, biggest movie sales tag in history), and a sequel to The Robe called Demetrius and the Gladiators. Others include The Big Fisherman (Columbia), The Galileans (Universal), The Story of Ruth and The Song of Songs (Charles Feldman), The Prodigal (M-G-M)-in which Lana Turner plays a priestess of Astarte...
...dozen De Mille epics. Hollywood is escaping into the past. Aging cine-moguls such as Mack Sennett, King Vidor and Adolph Zukor are publishing reminiscences about the good old days, studios are remaking old hits (e.g., The Covered Wagon and Ben Hur), production schedules read like mail-order history (Demetrius and the Gladiators, Prince Valiant). But the most startling forays into the past occur at Hollywood's quainter eating and drinking places...
...This great frame-up against such conventional building materials as wood and concrete is the brainchild of Demetrius Comino, a 50-year-old Greek-Australian turned Briton. Comino himself has capitalized mightily on both ingenuity and opportunity since he went to England in 1920 to study engineering. He got into the printing business, naming his company Krisson, Ltd., after the ancient Greek word for better. He soon was making it live up to the claim. While a partner ran the plant, Comino spent his time making efficiency studies and asking so many questions that employees nicknamed...
Victor Mature, as the Greek slave Demetrius, is believable in a role similar to many he has played before. Jay Robinson, however, is scarcely plausible as a crotchety and petulant Caligula. While many have thought this emperor a monster, Robinson makes him a caricature of a contemporary egghead...
...soon to be released How to Marry a Millionaire, a lightweight comedy starring Marilyn Monroe. In fact, Zanuck has placed $35 million worth of eggs in his CinemaScope basket by scheduling a total of 14 pictures for wide-screen production. Already made: a sequel to The Robe called Demetrius and the Gladiators, and such swashbucklers as Prince Valiant, Hell and High Water and King of the Khyber Rifles...