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Moviegoers know Burt Lancaster as an exuberant athletic type, at his best when there's something to swing from. But while Actor Burt Lancaster has been brachiating with Gina Lollobrigida (in Trapeze) and Caribbean wrongdoers (The Crimson Pirate), Independent Producer Burton Stephen Lancaster and his business partner Harold Hecht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Branch | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Hecht-Lancaster's last five pictures, including Marty, which won four Academy Awards, are expected to gross $42 million (on a $7,343,000 investment). The partners' deal with United Artists, which releases their films, gives them 70% to 85% of the profits. Since 1947 Hecht and Lancaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Branch | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Era of Independents. Short, round-faced ex-dancer (with Martha Graham), ex-Hollywood Agent Harold Adolph Hecht, 49, who runs the business end of the partnership and shares authority with Lancaster, is convinced that this is the era of independent producers. Small production outfits are multiplying, and such major studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Branch | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

This reasonable goal was something less than what was sought when the conference was first proposed three weeks ago. Then the angry British and French wanted a fast session to whip off an ultimatum backed by force to smash the pretensions of the Egyptian strongman. But by the time the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUEZ: The Principles of 1888 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

Rock of Ages. In Lancaster, Wis., Newcombe Watchorn, 85, got a divorce on the grounds that his wife said she was 61 years old when she was really 71, explained he found her true birth date on the tombstone of her previous husband.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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