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...Round Table on Hollywood. For 2½ days at San Bernardino, Calif., some 100,000 words flew around the table between scholars, actors, technicians, a critic, a moviegoer, and some of the best U.S. moviemaking talent: 20th Century-Fox's Mankiewicz, M-G-M Production Chief Dore Senary, Warner's Jerry Wald, Independents John Huston, Hal B. Wallis and Robert Rossen...
...England's South Coast, made a studio of his old top-floor nursery and settled down to work while gradually transforming the place into a fluttery nest of picture postcards, tabloid shock photos, scraps of comic strips and reproductions of such artists as Goya, George Grosz and Gustave Dore...
...Window (RKO Radio) gives a modest but impressive view of how well Hollywood can do, if it tries, on a grade B budget (under $750,000). One of the last jobs done for RKO by Executive Producer Dore Schary before he joined MGM, it combines a neat story by Cornell Woolrich, competent playing by twelve-year-old Bobby Driscoll and four relatively unknown actors, and some expert camera work in the brownstone jungles of Manhattan's East Side tenements. Smoothly mortised and joined by Director Ted Tetzlaff and Producer Frederic Ullman Jr., The Window emerges as a fast little...
...plan was the work of aggressive, able Dore Schary, 43, MGM's new vice president in charge of production. Of the projected 67 films, a dozen are already in the can and six are now shooting. The program will "challenge the gloomy prophets of defeat," said Schary, who is being privately hailed by his studio head, Louis B. Mayer, as the long-sought successor to the late Irving Thalberg. There are still "tough problems to be solved," Schary told the visiting salesmen, as they gathered for luncheon under thousands of square feet of improbably blue sky (left over from...
...With Green Hair (RKO Radio) is a "message" movie, dolled up. RKO's new boss Howard Hughes, who would rather gamble on low necklines than on lofty messages, inherited the picture from the Dore Schary regime, spent thousands fiddling with it, and ended up by reluctantly releasing the original...