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STEVEN E. HENIGSON Los Angeles
...people and 40,000 tons of sand, took a year to complete, and cost $1,000,000. The race itself, which runs only nine minutes on the screen, ran three months before the cameras and cost another million. Three months before the shooting stopped, Production Manager Henry Henigson had a serious heart attack, and two weeks later Producer Sam Zimbalist had a fatal one. By the time the cameras had finally stopped rolling, MGM's London laboratories had processed, at a cost of $1 a foot, some 1,250,000 feet of special, 65-mm. Eastman Color film...
...similarities with that system the editors propose is the altar on which the eligible in question burns holy incense. The Review achieves in the field of its own forum the very result we agree is heinous--self-perpetuation by standards of conduct variable at will and without recourse. Robert Henigson...
Sandals & Bulls. This spring, Metro's emissary was able to report progress. Hunting and haggling through Italy since 1948, Henigson had collected enough costumes to outfit a small army, enough animals to stock a zoo. He had bought 12,480 yards of specially dyed material to be made into togas, had cornered 10,000 pieces of gold-plated jewelry for Quo Vadis' 5,000 extras. From Roman shoemakers, he had ordered 6,250 pairs of handmade sandals, and from the women of the Italian Alps, several hundred silky-haired wigs. For the circus scenes in Quo Vadis, there...
...Henigson's worst headaches was taking over Rome's giant (148 acres) film city, Cinedtta, for the actual shooting of Quo Vadis. A German army barracks during the war, Cinedtta had been stripped of all electrical equipment, and its sound stages had been smashed and gutted. A hurry call for Metro's own big generator went out to Hollywood and the Italian government lent two more from the torpedoed battleship Vittorio Veneto...