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...American appearance in it and he is, will always be, the only Heathcliffe for anyone who sees it. It was, he says now, the moment when he learned how to act for a camera and there are all sorts of great stories about the filming of the movie. Sam Goldwyn almost fired him three times because he insisted on putting so much make-up on that he was unrecognizeable. "He's the ugliest actor I've ever seen!" Goldwyn screamed at the director, William Wyler. Wuthering Heights was written by, of all people. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur The script...
...Stage 5 at Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn Studios, the children's show Sigmund was being shot. Then an electrical fire started, and flames soon surrounded set, actors and crew. In next to no time, Fireman Steve McQueen came to the rescue. Rehearsing for his role as fire chief in The Towering Inferno, McQueen had been training on another lot with Peter Lucarelli, battalion chief of the Los Angeles fire department. When Lucarelli sped off to the real fire, Steve tagged along, followed by Wife Ali McGraw. Donning helmet and coat, he joined firefighters and helped pull the hoses...
Despite such occasional disappointments, expensive films of this kind are good for television movies in the same way that the David Selznick-Samuel Goldwyn-Irving Thalberg "prestige" productions were good for the movie industry in the '30s. They cause people who would not otherwise pay attention to the form to do so. But as with the old films, so with TV movies: the quick, deft westerns, mysteries and action melodramas that depend on well-established conventions may in the end exert a larger claim on our attention than their more pretentiously publicized rivals...
...Evan-Picone, the sportswear firm in which he had an interest, was sold. Following such legendary predecessors as Adolph Zukor (furs) and Samuel Goldwyn (gloves), Bob took his share of garment-district profits to reconquer Hollywood as a producer. His aggressive entrance into the packaging market attracted the eye of Charles Bluhdorn, who had just acquired Paramount. He hired Evans and has protected his position ever since. Evans is dead serious about Paramount. "Running a major studio is more difficult than running a country," he says without a trace of irony. "A small country...
Sounds like someone's got an eye for the main chance. If the Harvard population were the American public, then W. Donald Brown '74 of Eliot House would be Sam Goldwyn. Brown wrote, directed, shot, edited, appeared in, even ran the projector for Counterpoint at a showing the other night. But mostly he produced it. Brown got an original loan of $400 from the Eliot House entertainment fund. Then he sold shares in the film to 42 students--sending a prospectus to friends in Cambridge, in Eliot House, in the Hasty Pudding Club--to pay his creditors back. Brown even...