Word: moviemen
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Hollywood has spent years seeking the bubble reputation for glamor. Now it has decided to kill the pretty illusions that have cost so many millions to maintain. The trouble is, the public began to suspect that Hollywood glamor was synonymous with loose living. Some moviemen believe that this suspicion, deepened by the congressional Red hunt last fall, is a factor in the current box-office slump...
...during 1948, moviemen gloomily predicted, studio earnings would plunge to about $60,000,000; Warner's first-quarter 1948 profits were down 40% from last year's, Columbia...
...bankers feared what British exhibitors knew: that unless the rulers of Hollywood or Britain-or both-give in, many British movie houses would soon be shut down for lack of films. If that happens, British moviemen fear the worst: nationalization...
...Shed. Few U.S. moviemen would take such a sanguine view. Britain needs 300 pictures a year, including many B productions, to supply all its theaters. But few had worked as hard as Korda to keep their creative independence...
...assemble the curious document, U.S. moviemen, including Commander Ray Kellogg and Lieutenant Budd (What Makes Sammy Run) Schulberg, tracked down film which was hidden in cellars, locked in vaults and plastered in farmhouse walls throughout Europe. The result is a pretty full record of the little group of Nazi orators from bustling youth to beribboned...