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...Greta Garbo as Pope Innocent III? Italian Movie Director Franco Zeffirelli considered her, thought Charlie Chaplin might also be suitable, ended up by picking Laurence Olivier, who was unavailable. "Olivier couldn't do it, so they asked me," said his modest replacement, Actor Alec Guinness, who was in Italy filming a confrontation scene between Pope Innocent and St. Francis of Assisi for Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Zeffirelli's cinematic treatment of the saint's life. "Religion is still an important factor for the young," mused Sir Alec, a Catholic himself. "Only difference is that in the past...
...girl reporters and wise-cracking hoofers. As always in popular art, comedy can get away with more social comment than serious work (just as comedy is the easiest place to hide from social comment). The series instead has concentrated on the direct sexual themes of Dietrich in Shanghai Express, Garbo in Queen Christina, and Mae West in She Done Him Wrong. The last film does, of course, touch on the economics of Miss West and her jewels-this is the film version of her stage success Diamond Lil. And for that matter, there is some doubt about the "seriousness...
...ONLY women in general suffered from the end of this era; none of the great women stars survived with their strength intact. Mae West's career was finished, and Garbo-after giving in to Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka -was then reduced to "sex farce" in Two-Faced Woman, and left the screen forever. Dietrich went to comedy somewhat more successfully, and revived her career with Destry Rides Again in 1939. But all the comedy was at the expense of her former screen image-and although funny, it somehow smells of self-exploitation. Katherine Hepburn made her first comedy, Bringing...
Hardly since General Douglas MacArthur's "I shall return" has so momentous a comeback loomed. According to Italian Cinema Director Luchino Visconti, fabled Film Star Greta Garbo, 65, who has been dodging cameras for 30 years, has actually asked to play in his forthcoming movie version of Marcel Proust's seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past. The role that caught her fancy: Maria Sophia, the sixtyish Queen of Naples, who will have only one scene. Nothing has been signed as yet, but Visconti sounded as if Garbo's reappearance was already a fait accompli. Said...
...stories, even ads. Advertisers who used the old Liberty will be offered free space to run bygone ads beside their new ones (at $3,000 per black-and-white page). The first issues will have a press run of 400,000 copies, and include, among others, the Gandhi and Garbo stories. Chief resuscitator of the magazine is Robert Whiteman, 45, a soft-spoken entrepreneur who once sold Liberty door-to-door in Savannah, Ga., and purchased the remnants in 1965. Into the bargain went 1,387 covers and some 17,000 pieces of editorial material, enough, Whiteman figures, "to last...