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...connection with his Hollywood experience, he recalls once being asked by producer Sol Wurtzel to do a screenplay for Dante's Inferno. "That requires a lot of research," Behrman replied. "Oh, no," said Wurtzel, "you can see the silent film." Behrman's most recent screenplay is the new Ben Hur: "there are 126 camels and 126 writers, and they all have about the same effect on the picture...
...Zimbalist, 57, M-G-M producer whose fondness for spectacle resulted in such films as Quo Vadis, King Solomon's Mines, Mogambo; of a heart attack on the set of one of the biggest splurges in cinema history-M-G-M's $10 million-plus Ben Hur; in Rome...
...hijacking." Examples: last year Playhouse go produced The Helen Morgan Story just in time to capitalize on Warner Brothers' Helen Morgan Story, and this month TV Producer David Susskind announced plans for a $400,000 quickie that would beat the release of MGM's $12.5 million Ben Hur. Said Wald: Hollywood ought to fight back with movies that "in a tasteful manner will show their vast world audiences the disadvantages of buying, using or owning" products made by sponsors of offending TV shows...
Near week's end Producer Susskind withdrew plans for his TV Ben Hur. Still in the works for CBS's U.S. Steel Hour: a TV play about the life of Sigmund Freud, anticipating a planned movie. The odds are nicely balanced. While the movie makers have Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre to write the script, TV has Farley Granger to play Professor Freud...
...kids into superglamorous movie stars. He found Robert Taylor at Pomona College and Joan Crawford in a chorus line. His star system, soon copied by his competitors, developed Gilbert, Murray, Gable, Tracy, Garson, Garbo, Powell, Astaire and Turner, clustered them and others in such big-money films as Ben Hur, The Good Earth, Grand Hotel and Dinner at Eight. If need be, Mayer could alter his proclaimed moral standards to fit the freewheeling '20s and '30s, turned loose Gilbert and Garbo in some sizzling love scenes, and let Harlow's neckline find its natural level...