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Next day the men of M-G-M barred Miss Robertson from its previews, and asked BBC to silence a voice that it felt was "completely out of touch . . . unnecessarily harmful to the film industry." Critic-&-Author (Four Frightened People) Robertson promptly filed a libel and slander suit (TIME...
...Hucksters (M-G-M), an adaptation of Frederic Wakeman's blustering, best-selling assault on radio advertising, hands Clark Gable his first good job since demobilization, and presents Britain's beautiful Deborah Kerr (TIME, Feb. 10) in her first U.S. film...
...still too early to tell what Hollywood will do with Deborah Kerr, or vice versa. She has to huckster a pretty thin role for an actress of her charm and ability-and do what she can with it while M-G-M is huckstering the daylights out of her. She goes through the assigned paces with a good grace, refining them with considerable shrewdness and as much concern for more serious artistry as the heavily commercial traffic will bear...
Deborah Kerr, who had just finished her first movie (The Hucksters) since M-G-M imported her from Britain for a starring career, announced that she was going to have a baby in December...
British Satirist Evelyn Waugh, who went to Hollywood on an eiderdown dream mission, departed for home after seven weeks of good living. By contract, M-G-M had maintained him in luxurious style while they talked about filming his Brideshead Revisited. But the censors wanted to change a script that Waugh liked. So it was no go. He didn't want changes. He really wasn't "keen" now to sell the book to any studio, said...