Word: korda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen the premiere of Oscar Wilde's play, An Ideal Husband, in 1895. A few dozen oldsters who responded got tickets to another premiere of An Ideal Husband, this time a movie starring Paulette Goddard and Hugh Williams. With this hoary pressagent's trick, Sir Alexander Korda helped beat the drums for his return to moviemaking-and the showing this week of the first movie in three years bearing his name. Tall, silver-haired, and at 54 none the worse for 29 hectic years in the international movie business, Korda was making a comeback from his second eclipse...
...entrance by Korda, the Hungarian-born producer who first proved to Britain that it could compete with Hollywood, was well planned. He had tested the market a month ago with the first postwar production of his new company, an unpretentious thriller called A Man About the House, launched without benefit of the Korda name. It was grossing as much as first-run U.S. pictures, Korda said...
This success gave Korda's voice a confident ring as he announced that his new company, London. Film Productions, Ltd., would turn out 13 pictures next year and spend $20 million in the process. (With the announcement of J. Arthur Rank that he would make 43 pictures worth $40 million next year, Britain could expect 80 new pictures, its largest production ever...
...Shed. Few U.S. moviemen would take such a sanguine view. Britain needs 300 pictures a year, including many B productions, to supply all its theaters. But few had worked as hard as Korda to keep their creative independence...
Despite a title of the sort which usually forecasts another romantic comedy, this re-release tells admirably of Lord Nelson's simultaneous battles against various enemy navies and sundry social conventions. A little doctoring of the history books provided Alexander Korda with a vigorous tale about the intrigue between Nelson and Lady Hamilton, and Laurence Olivier then combined with Vivien Leigh in contributing the dramatic talent necessitated by such a plot...