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...view halloo began when M.G.M. announced plans to picturize Uncle Tom's Cabin. Eliza would be Negro Torch Singer Lena Horne; Southern Gentleman St. Clare, venerable Lewis Stone; Little Eva, Margaret O'Brien. Simon Legree was not cast, but the producer was to be Arthur Hornblow. Promptly, Negro spokesmen and liberal Whites spiked the plan of Hollywood's most conservative studio...
Promptly Producer Hornblow bugled: "It seems to me that the Negro press is prone to exaggerate the objectionable aspects of the book. They sometimes think of Uncle Tom as nothing more than a quisling." He also compared Mrs. Stowe with Tolstoy, called the resentment of the liberals and a "surprising" number of distinguished Negroes an insult and an irreverence toward the author...
Success in the movies came more slowly. Having achieved complete mastery over the air, Hope remained a flop on the lot. At last Paramount woke up, but it made Hope wake up also. Before handing him the lead in The Cat and the Canary, Paramount Producer Arthur Hornblow talked to Hope like a Dutch uncle, told him he'd do anything for a laugh-gore another actor, bolt clean out of character. Hope began, fumed Hornblow, by making audiences grin, ended by making them grit their teeth. The Cat and the Canary clicked: since then Hope has whizzed through...
Married. Cinemactress Myrna Loy, 36; and John D. Hertz Jr., 33, Manhattan advertising man, son of the founder of Yellow Cab Co.; five days after her divorce from Cineproducer Arthur Hornblow Jr.; in Manhattan...
Divorced. By Cinemactress Myrna Loy, 36: Cineproducer Arthur Hornblow Jr., 49; in Reno...