Word: dore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green hair. Then everyone who sees him knows there ought to be more, tolerance." But how could a movie possibly be made on that faintly mad kind of a plot? "Well," said the underling, "maybe nobody else could make one out of it. But Dore Schary will pull...
...months since he became boss of RKO production, Dore Schary (rhymes, in Hollywood, with hoary sherry) had run off many a movie from such a slim start and with a slimmer budget. (The Boy will cost $500,000.) From the process Schary had emerged as the fair-haired hopeful of the film industry. Threatened with the loss of its lucrative British market (TIME, Sept. 22), Hollywood was feverishly seeking ways to make A pictures on B budgets, and to Schary that was an old experience...
...writer of B pictures for years, 42-year-old Dore Schary never got into the habit of throwing money around. At RKO, he has cut down the costly time of shooting a full-length picture to as little as 19 days (the industry average is 45 to 70 days); he has been known to leave as little as 200 feet on the cutting-room floor in editing a film. This has been done by cutting scripts to the last adjective, working out every twist of plot before shooting starts. (Many a director still makes up the plot as he goes...
...Hollywood Producer Dore Schary blasted the new long dresses, announced that actresses in his pictures "will continue to wear clothes which become them." Daily Variety offered a clue to his agitation: millions of dollars of pictures in the film backlogs of U.S. studios are in danger of being irrevocably dated by the change in fashions...
Quick Shooting. One man notably tuned to the trend was RKO's new production boss, 41-year-old Dore Senary, up from writing ranks and a stint as producer for Selznick. Despite all the worry over high costs, he had demonstrated that pictures could still be made cheaply. His newest picture. Crossfire, was produced in only 24 shooting days at a cost of only...