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Paulette Goddard took her own Hollywood hairdresser to London to keep her glamorous for a British film. So twelve local hairdressers walked off the lot in protest. Picture production stopped for three days-at a cost of $12,000 a day to Producer Alexander Korda. Miss Goddard kept her hairdresser...
...operating expenses. Mary and Charlie therefore began taking in new partners. But something always went wrong. Usually, Mary and Charlie thought the newcomers tried to run things too much their own way. So the newcomers had to go. In rapid succession, such notables as Sam Goldwyn, Darryl Zanuck, Alexander Korda went through U.A.'s revolving door...
Carmen has been filmed at least ten times, but moviegoers have by no means seen the last of the wench. A Manhattan theater is currently showing an Argentine-made version. A U.S. producer is toying with the idea, and Britain's Alexander Korda has announced a forthcoming Carmen with Paulette Goddard in the lead...
Vacation from Marriage (MGM) is a warm, gentle, wise little Britain-in-wartime comedy, excellently acted by a British cast, excellently directed by Sir Alexander Korda...
Equal honors must go to Britain's Hungarian-born Producer-Director Alexander Korda (knighted by George VI in 1942), who gives to the story that air of authenticity and apparent artlessness which has become a sort of hallmark of the best British pictures...