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...moviemakers who were shouted out of Silver City, N. Mex. this month for filming the semi-documentary Salt of the Earth) filed suit for a whopping $51,750,000 damages from 17 film companies, two producer associations, 20 top-ranking cinema executives (L. B. Mayer, Howard Hughes, Dore Schary, Sam Goldwyn, et al.), nine Congressmen (including the committee's current Chairman Harold Velde), and two committee investigators. The complaint: that their being named on studio blacklists (for such things as refusal to answer the committee's questions about their political beliefs and affiliations) has made them jobless pariahs...
...Production Boss Dore Schary sees 3-D as a novelty and a limited technique which will not enhance or improve all pictures. Said Schary, cautiously: "Third dimension provides the industry with a wonderful . . . opportunity to tell stories in new ways, but I believe that worldwide audiences will, in the next couple of years, help us to determine which films we should make in third dimension . . . The public, as always, remains the final arbiter...
...Producer Dore Schary hoped that Plymouth Adventure would "humanize" the Pilgrims, but they never emerge on the screen as flesh-and-blood characters. Ihe picture has a spectacular Atlantic storm, but most of the time the Pilgrims -and the audience-are merely awash in a sea of florid dialogue...
That afternoon the governor was guest of honor at a monster cocktail party given by MGM's Production Chief Dore Schary. Hollywood offered comforting evidence that many a torrid summer romance with Eisenhower had ended in a reconciliation with the Democratic Party to which most screen people have been attached since New Deal days. Gathered on the Scharys' lawn were more than 600 of Hollywood's big fry. Moving through the crowd, Actress Lauren Bacall excitedly told of her shift from Ike to Adlai. "Bogie hasn't switched yet," she explained, "but I'm working...
...Harvard Club lunch in Los Angeles MGM's Dore Schary decided to look on the bright side of the movie-TV battle: "Television actually is having a salutary effect on films. It is eliminating our potboilers, dreadful melodramas and other junk. In fact, television is inheriting most of Hollywood's mediocrities...