Word: jed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year a well-to-do, cinema-struck minister named James K. Friedrich formed Cathedral Films, made a religious picture, The Great Commandment, for some $130,000, sold it to 20th Century-Fox for $200,000. Also working on The Great Commandment was jovial, jug-shaped Jed Buell, who has done a little producing of his own. His Harlem on the Prairie, the first all-Negro western, grossed...
Soon it looked as if Producer Jed Harris had won. Then things began to happen. Harris and Hemingway couldn't agree on revisions, and Harris checked out. Austin Parker (a former husband of Miriam Hopkins) took a $1,000 option on the play, died a few days later. From then on The Fifth Column was batted around the market; finally Hemingway threw the script on the shelf...
Though the book is all Helen, it lacks the cautious, great-lady air that chilled Katharine Cornell's I Wanted to Be an Actress. Mother shows Helen blowing up at Jed Harris when he did backward somersaults over how she should say the one word "Hello" in Coquette. "I didn't know this was Euripides," Helen screamed. "I won't go on until you get out of here!" (He got out.) Mother exposes Helen's tendency to misuse words, quotes her famed "Any one who wants my piano is willing to it," to which George...
...most sociable guy in the business, he is also the most hardboiled. He frequently treats producers rough. But he plays them smart. He may explode working for explosive Jed Harris, but he is a gent when working for gentlemanly Arthur Hopkins. He may write reams of copy about a play for the press, but to its producer he never offers a word of unsolicited advice. And the producer-the man who pays him-comes first, last & always with him. Composer Dick Rodgers once asked him: "Is it a secret that I am writing the music for this show?" Retorted Maney...
...stagehand who did not like to see his name in print." Among producers, his pet annoyance is the Shuberts. No great admirer of Billy Rose, he admits that Rose is a pressagent's Dream Boy because "he scorns dignity in favor of delirium." His favorite producer is megalomaniac Jed Harris because Harris is cyclonic, unpredictable. "All female stars," adds Maney, "have one thing in common: after you stand on your head to arrange an interview, they break the date because they have to have their hair washed...