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...Trapeze (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists...
When Hollywood partners part, they often do it with a bang. Author Ben Hecht and Cinemactor Bob Hope were partners in MGM's The Iron Petticoat, a Ninotchka-type farce co-starring Hope and Katharine Hepburn. The script by Hecht tells of a Russian aviatrix who flees the Soviet Union in a MIG and is piloted about Europe by a U.S. Air Force officer. Now that The Iron Petticoat is ready to be publicized, Scripter Hecht last week washed his hands of the whole project in a paid ad ($275) on the back page of the Hollywood Reporter...
...Signed] BEN HECHT...
...complaint to void his contract and collect damages of $142,500 plus interest, Cinemactor Ernest (Marty) Borgnine went on record to say that sudden success in the movies is not necessarily followed by sudden riches in real life. On Borgnine's last movie, the holders of his contract (Hecht-Lancaster) allegedly exercised their contractual right to pre-empt his services, then lent him out to do the same movie he was negotiating for. His contract-holders got "at least $75,000." Borgnine got $15,000. The movie: The Best Things in Life Are Free...
...Paddy Chayefsky's Bachelor Party, which went on location in New York last week, will be the first of 14 new films to be made by the Hecht and Lancaster Companies (it will be Hecht, Hill & Lancaster next year, when onetime Scriptwriter James Hill joins the partnership). Projected films include The Way West, from A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s Pulitzer Prizewinning novel with Lancaster and probably James Stewart, Gary Cooper and Katharine Hepburn; First Love, with Audrey Hepburn, adapted by John van Druten from the Turgenyev novel; George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, with...