Word: korda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English-language propaganda newspaper edited in London and published in Russia. Later switched to the Foreign Office. Postwar jobs: feature editor (books, art, travel) of the London edition of Vogue; publicity woman at ?1,000 a year (a good salary for a woman in Britain) for Moviemaker Sir Alexander Korda...
Engagement Announced. Anthony Eden, 55, Britain's elegant Foreign Secretary, and Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, 32, Prime Minister Churchill's blonde, blue-eyed niece, Britain's "most beautiful debutante of 1938," a wartime Foreign Office worker, more recently employed in Film Producer Alexander Korda's office; in London...
...during the shooting because of the novel's anti-fox hunting message. In 1950, dissatisfied with the finished product, Producer David O. Selznick (who got the western-hemisphere rights to the picture in return for allowing wife Jennifer Jones to appear in it) sued London Films Producer Alexander Korda to enjoin release of the film overseas. A British law court decided against Selznick. Last year Selznick hired Director Rouben Mamoulian to reshoot almost a third of the picture in Hollywood for U.S. release...
Terrible to Terrific. The success of Laughton's readings has revived a critics' wrangle over the quality of his acting. Opinions range, as they always have, from terrible to terrific. One noted Broadway director calls him "100% true-blue ham." But British Cinemogul Sir Alexander Korda insists that Laughton is a genius. "He has a feverish will for being superlatively good, a wonderful sincerity...
...what kind of brushes artists used in the 17th century. As the domineering father in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, he became intolerably high & mighty around his own home. When he acted the murderer in Payment Deferred, he got so morose he nearly had a nervous breakdown. Says Korda of these soul struggles: "What he needs is not a director but a midwife...