Word: haver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painstaking reassembly, the original version that Cukor loved-all three hours of it-was shown publicly for the first time since its release 29 years ago. James Mason, 74, who played Norman Maine to Judy Garland's Esther Blodgett took a bow at intermission, but Film Historian Ronald Haver was the true star of the show. Combing musty film vaults in Brooklyn and Hollywood, Haver first found a copy of the original sound track, which he used as a guide when he began splicing in the bits and pieces of missing film that he found. The tale has many...
...Defense finally authorized its release. There are good soldiers in peacetime too: silver stars should be awarded to Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, and Ray Stark, producer of three later Huston films, who lobbied with the Government to liberate Let There Be Light; Ron Haver of the Los Angeles County Museum, who organized the film's first public showing; and Joseph Me Bride, whose barrage of articles in Variety cast light on the film's splendid achievements and sorry history. This week the hour-long documentary receives its theatrical premiere at Manhattan...