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...career came in 1934 when she peroxided her hair and stole the show as Mildred, the mean little waitress in Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Says Davis: "She was the first leading-lady villainess ever played on a screen for real. I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation...
Aware that the feds were after it. MCA last week volunteered to dispose of its talent business, which represents such stars as Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren and Jimmy Stewart but accounted last year for only $8,400,000, or about 10% of MCA's gross. The Justice Department wants much more than that. Convinced that MCA's divestiture plan would still leave the talent operation under the control of MCA executives, the Government demands that it be dissolved completely and the stars set free. The Justice Department also wants MCA's acquisition of Decca and Universal rescinded...
...Sebring, 28, the Alabama-born boy who has become dictator of the nape-line, tyrant of the sideburn, and keeper of the keys to baldpate for a list of notables that begins with Frank Sinatra and ends with Bobby Darin (they have a similar problem) and includes Milton Berle, Marlon Brando and Sammy Davis...
Elizabeth Taylor will stuff more than $1,300,000 into her cleavage for Cleopatra -one of the highest fees ever paid for a professional woman. Marlon Brando is getting more than $1,000,000 for Mutiny on the Bounty. And Cary Grant, who could probably buy Scotland if he cared to, took 75% of the profits of Operation Petticoat. Profits to date...
Film companies start out to make a picture for, say, $6,000,000, like Mutiny on the Bounty, and it ends up costing about $20 million. Maundering Marlon had much to do with that, just as Elizabeth Taylor shot the budget of Cleopatra into the stratosphere. Star salaries, demands and delays put too much economic weight on the top of a motion picture. The employees have been ruining the business...