Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fisher, Frederick L. Helburn '49, and Curtis Jones '50 will form the broadcasting staff. William Coburn, an engineer at Cardex, Inc. and former lecturer in field communications at Harvard, will give the students the necessary technical assistance...
Champion (Screen Plays, Inc.; United Artists) is a full-length portrait of a middleweight heel. Based on a hard-bitten short story by the late Ring Lardner, it is a brilliant example of the kind of punch a mall studio can pack, if it has an intelligent script and a smart director. To get by the Johnston Office, Scripter "Carl Foreman made his hero, Midge Kelly Kirk Douglas), a shade gentler than Lardner's original. The movie Midge, for instance, does not paste his dear old mother in the jaw. Otherwise he is just about as unlovely a piece...
...seven-year, nine-picture deal at just under $1,000,000. His first two pictures for Warner will be Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. He will also continue to do one film a year for Screen Plays, Inc., the welterweight studio which produced Champion...
Meanwhile, in their corner, Screen Plays, Inc.'s impresarios, Producer Stanley Kramer and George Glass, were sitting pretty. On something like $600,000 (chicken feed for a modern A movie), they had made a picture which some experts guessed would gross $3,000,000. They had also delivered a stiff uppercut to Hollywood's heavyweights. Sam Goldwyn promptly bought up the talents of Champion's young (34) Director Mark Robson (who, like Douglas, will continue to do one picture a year for Screen Plays). Aggressive little Screen Plays' next: Home of the Brave, the first...
...Liberal Union Film Series will present a special showing of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" on May 3, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, HLU Public Relations Director, announced last night. This is the first film to be supplied by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. since they agreed on March 22 to renew HLU's location approval and resume supplying them with 16mm films...