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Tarzan Finds a Son (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Not stork-borne, this son is the adopted survivor of an airliner wreck on Tarzan's own African escarpment. Reared by Tarzan's mate, Maureen O'Sullivan, on antelope milk, the youngster at five looks like Johnny Weissmuller through the wrong end of an opera glass. He swims like a loon, rides turtles and elephants, fights lions singlehanded, lives just the life every tree-climbing young Tarzan-imitator yearns...
...swarthy, 47-year-old immigrant with curly black hair, smoky eyes, a terrific Bronx-Jewish accent, and a terrific publicity phobia, he is married, the father of two children, Jeanette and Mildred, lives in The Bronx. Legends about Max Salop in the book business are matched only by Sam Goldwyn legends in the movies...
...Miracles for money. One of Hollywood's highest-paid writers (The Front Page, Let Freedom Ring, etc.), he forswore 15 months' salary to write it. (His movie salary is around $6,000 a week.) But for Hecht it was "fun writing what I want-without having Sam Goldwyn peering over my shoulder." Fun for Hecht has heretofore meant novels like Erik Dorn, Count Bruga, A Jew in Love-gaudy, swashbuckling, ranting books, splashed with dead-pan vehemence, a sort of Ouija-board mysticism, a little sour cream of human kindness-all with a suggestion of having been written...
...Hollywood appropriately furnishes the most extravagant miracle. When Producer Kolisher (a ringer for Sam Goldwyn) produces The Redeemer, God becomes interested, takes a hand in the last scenes. Robert Gary, the star, is ruined. Producer Kolisher, who knows how to please the public in spite of miracles, simply cuts God's contribution; critics eulogize his restraint...
...Mogul Goldwyn has outdone himself to make Wuthering Heights not only a faithful representation of the book, making only excusable cuts, but a superb picture. To maintain such a consistent mood of grim decadence is no easy job for a motion picture, yet director, producer, and cast have held that mood and made Wuthering Heights into a tremendously convincing tragedy. But of all those who had a hand in the picture Laurence Oliver deserves the largest share of credit. Here is a Robert Taylor with some guts, a Clark Gable who knows...