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...STEAL A MILLION. Audrey Hepburn sets out to save the reputation of her father, a charming forger played by Hugh Griffith, and learns that crime can be beautiful with Peter O'Toole as an accomplice...
...United Artists too. Chairman Robert S. Benjamin and President Arthur B. Krim, who form a kind of Alphonse-and-Gaston partnership, in 15 years have sponsored one of the most remarkable comebacks in show business. Organized in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Charlie Chaplin and D. W. Griffith, United was losing $100,000 a week by 1951. Lawyers Benjamin and Krim (law partners of Louis Nizer) took over, encouraged talented independent producers to make good films for United to bankroll and distribute. The list has since included such successes as Marty, High Noon, The African Queen, West Side...
Thinly disguised for a time as a charwoman, Audrey plays the daughter of a fine old French family with a congenital weakness for forging old masters. Papa is Hugh Griffith, a shaggy rogue whose wickedly rolling orbs make him look like a cross between a pinball machine and a Rembrandt portrait. Griffith has turned Sunday painting into a world-famous collection of Cezannes, Van Goghs, Renoirs-all part of $100,000 worth of phony masterworks, especially commissioned to help Director William Wyler (The Collector) fashion this meticulous high comedy about ars graftia artis. Among the other experts at hand...
Nick Hoogs and assistant senior tutor March McCall won a crucial three set doubles match that brought Lowell victory. Chris Couglin, Charlie Whipple, and Ron Chester topped Tilot's third, fourth, and fifth men. Number one man Eric Wallach and coach Steve Griffith sparked close wins over Dunster, which finished third, and Winthrop, which was sixth behind Kirkland and Leverett...
Died. Robert F. Allen, 29, Tucson insurance salesman who two months ago participated in a daring operation aimed at arresting his bone cancer by swapping diseased tissue with another bone cancer victim, Pennsylvania Salesman Harry T. Griffith; in Tucson, Ariz., two weeks after Griffith succumbed...