Word: korda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wells, Compton Mackenzie, Eric Linklater, and produced in the London Times a letter: "With dismay we have heard that it is to be made into a cinematograph film. . . We would ask what degree of supervision, and by whom, is to be exercised. . . ." Promptly came the answer from Sir Alexander Korda, who snickered and rumbled in rich Magyarish English: "This Victorian phrase, 'with dismay' and 'cinematograph film' just slays me. You would think it would be someone from Barbaria who would come to undo a masterpiece. I just try to make a good 'cinematograph film...
...Hungarian-born Alexander Korda famed movie producer—Knight Bachelor. Wife Merle Oberon may now be called Lady Korda...
Jungle Book (Korda; United Artists) is a bold attempt by the epic-minded Brothers Korda (Producer Alexander and Director Zoltan) to make Kipling's beloved animal fable of Mowgli, the Hindu boy who was raised by jungle wolves, into a movie. It can't be done. The myth-destroying movie camera produces a laborious, sometimes silly tale, saved from disgrace only by some of the best Techni-colored animal photography extant...
...Korda; United Artists) is the late Carole Lombard's last picture. Like Son of the Sheik (Rudolph Valentino), Steamboat 'Round the Bend (Will Rogers) and Saratoga (Jean Harlow), it was posthumously released. Fortunately for all concerned, To Be is a very funny comedy, salted to taste with melodrama and satire...
David O. Selznick paid $1,200,000 for a United Artists partnership with Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Alexander Korda, promised to make $20,000,000 worth of pictures, got a kiss from Mary. Ruth Etting's husband, Myrl Alderman, dropped his $225,000 damage suit against her ex-husband, Martin Snyder, who shot him four years ago. Billy Rose sued the Canadian National Exhibition for $500,000 for calling its summer water show an "Aquacade." Richard Krebs ("Jan Valtin") was sued for $50,000 by a woman who said she spent more than a year typing and researching...