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...began starring in silent films, most of them box-office duds. After sound came, Horton began to win a movie public as a fuddy-duddy Mr. Fixit. In the high-grossing Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire pictures, he became one of the screen's best-known comedians. Of late years he has operated as a "scavenger," making pictures "whenever they have a bad part they think I can rewrite. I twist the lines up, and they turn on the camera-of course, they may not have any film in it, but they pay me." Last year, the movies and radio...
There were too many horrible examples of money-losing pictures. Despite Ginger Rogers, Universal -International's The Magnificent Doll was having trouble getting into some first-run theaters. Only blitz tactics by razor-sharp David O. Selznick saved his Duel in the Sun from losing the box-office battle. To combat the panning of Duel by critics, Selznick shrewdly ran Duel simultaneously in several theaters in selected cities. Thus he cashed in before adverse comment could get around. Hollywood guessed that Duel's box-office gross is over $7,000,000, half of what Selznick needs to break...
Like many a Yorkshireman, he is a Methodist and pledged to temperance. But he is not stuffy about others' drinking, and has even been known to wax convivial on lime juice and ginger...
Even if the signatures of Harry Truman, George Marshall, Louis Bromfield, Fiorello LaGuardia, Ginger Rogers are not "beautifully" penned, they at least have in common mental maturity, individualism, the desire and the capacity for absorbing new ideas, more-than-average flexibility. Thus their scripts differ from those of our contemporaries who may write a "copper plate" hand which contains the same elements as the writing they were taught at school 20 years and more ago. This subconscious clinging to the penmanship carefully learned in school so long ago is often an indication of lack of originality, inflexibility, lack of self...
...motion picture producers aren't forgetting it. Brushing aside any facts that might stand in their way the wily movie magnates have made of Dolly Madison something more than "mine gracious hostess" and daring rescuer of the portrait of George Washington. For, ensconced within the charming structure of Ginger Rogers, she is capable of tap-dancing, being psychoanalized and bewitching young men of good family. She does none of these, however, but there is an omnipresent suspicion that she might, at any moment, go into her routine...