Word: korda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last five years, and lent the industry $28 million out of a special revolving loan fund. Fully half of this total went to British Lion Films (makers of such recent critical successes as Breaking Through the Sound Barrier and Captain's Paradise), founded by Sir Alexander Korda. The loan first fell due in 1951, but was extended so that British Lion would not be forced to cut production. Last week things looked so bad that the National Film Finance Corp. called the loan, and sent British Lion into receivership. (But not Korda's London Films, a separate company...
Actor Sir Laurence Olivier and his Actress-Wife Vivien Leigh, after cruising the Mediterranean with Cinemagnate Sir Alexander Korda on his 150-ton yacht Elsewhere, were back in London for another busy theater season. They began rehearsals for their new play, The Sleeping Princess (Actress Leigh's first stage role since recovering from last spring's nervous breakdown), and were photographed helping famed British Actress Helen Haye* (still going strong playing the Dowager Empress of Russia in Anastasia) blow out the candles at her 79th birthday party...
Married. Sir Alexander Korda, 59, British cinemogul (The Third Man, Breaking Through the Sound Barrier); and Alexandra Irene Boycun, 23, farm-bred Canadian singer; he for the third time, she for the first; in a surprise civil ceremony at Vence, in southern France. Said Moviemaker Korda: "She has never played in a film, and never will...
Four Feathers is a classic story of heroism and the definite desert extravaganza. Although there are no harems nor luscious Arabian princesses, thousands of Fuzzy Wuzzies and General Kitchener's valiant army stage a race riot that ought to please the most sadistic audience. Korda has taken full advantage of the possibilities of Technicolor to focus his camera on open wounds at every opportunity...
...embarrassingly. Announced the Beaverbrook Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000): Since the film companies were discriminating against two of the chain's papers, the Express would also refuse Hollywood movie ads. The moviemen hurriedly tried, but failed, to get nonmember companies to join the boycott (snorted Sir Alexander Korda: "Disgustingly silly"). Meanwhile the American companies were losing out on valuable advertising, promotion and good will. Even Beaverbrook's competitors rallied to his side. The News Chronicle, denouncing "an attempt at dictatorship," gave "its full support . . . for the whole conception of a free press is involved . . ." Said the Spectator...