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Director Anatole Litvak tangles the skein of fate with finesse; from Sophia he has coaxed some fine flashes of doe-eyed terror, and he has allowed Tony to prove what a convincing actor he can be when he is not embroiled with Kafka or Racine...
...basking in the afterglow and acclaim that attended the completion of the Welles-directed, Welles-scripted version of Kafka's The Trial, the story of a man victimized by the impersonal hostility of a bureaucratic world he never made. Viewers of the early rushes, including Directors Anatole Litvak and Jules Dassin, say they witnessed the birth of a classic. Twenty-one years after his Citizen Kane won him the title of boy genius and doomed him to a lifetime of trying to hold on to it, Orson Welles seemed to be making a comeback...
...Nothing is too small to demand her attention if it has something to do with her career," says Anatole Litvak, who has just finished directing her in Five Miles to Midnight in Paris. For example, she keeps a magnifying glass beside her bed, where she goes over the tiny contact prints of her publicity pictures. "In all the weeks in Paris, she only went out twice," says Litvak. "One can't even get her to a nightclub unless she convinces herself it is a question of public attention. Actually, once she's there she has a great time...
Working four-week stretches in Hollywood, then zipping off to New York and Europe, he "converges" clients wherever he goes. Next week he leaves for a Swiss skiing colloquium with Irwin Shaw, Peter Viertel, Anatole Litvak, Darryl Zanuck and Henri-Georges Clouzot. He never considers himself on vacation. Once, meeting 20th Century-Fox's Buddy Adler by chance in Paris, Lazar sold him Cole Porter's Can-Can for $750,000. On another occasion, he was saving money by flying tourist class when, looking beyond the partition, he saw Spyros Skouras sitting up forward in Firstville. "I could...
Goodbye Again (Litvak; United Artists) is an American film in the sense that the U.S. is where the money to make it came from, but otherwise it is thoroughly French. That is to say, all of its important scenes take place in restaurants or automobiles. There was a time when all important scenes in French movies took place in bedrooms, but in De Gaulle's Fifth Republic this is no longer true-except for Brigitte Bardot films, and Brigitte, of course, is only for tourists. The most important cars are a forceful but overstated Facel-Vega in which Yves...