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...Anna Lucasta. Vivid, well-acted drama about a Negro streetwalker and her family (TIME. June...
...Anna Lucasta is more in demand in Hollywood than any play since Life with Father. He has been offered as high as $1,000,000 for the screen rights. Hedy Lamarr and Lauren Bacall and Greta Garbo have all tried to persuade their bosses to buy it for them. (In the play, as first written, Anna and her family were Polish.) Among the top bidders are David Selznick and Mervyn LeRoy. Yet Yordan refuses to sell Anna Lucasta at any price unless he is allowed to co-produce the picture...
...weekly gross on Lucasta ($21,000) has hardly varied a quarter a week since the play hit Broadway, and Artkino wants him to bring the show to Moscow - an offer which he plans to ac cept as soon as the New York audiences begin to fall off. At the same time he is enjoying too much freedom and making too much money as a partner in King Bros. Productions, an independent unit with Monogram, to have to feel that his position, for the time being, is im provable. "We are making A stories on a C budget," he explains...
...title role will be taken by George A. Plimpton '48, with Miss Evelyn Merson, Radcliffe '47, as Lucasta, Andrew Smith '48 as Creon, and Frederick F. Lamont '48 doing the vocal solo. Miss Merson appears through the courtesy of Gerald L. K. Maslon '98 and the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...Anna Lucasta. Vivid, well-acted, all-Negro play about a streetwalker and her family (TiME, June...