Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors could not be sure just what had caused Gregory Peck's eye infection, but M-G-M found its effects painfully clear: the moviemaking machinery had grown so complicated that an actor's inflamed eye was enough to inflict a year's postponement (and thus tie up $1,000,000 already spent) on "the biggest picture of all time...
High-priced live properties were involved, too. Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. and Director John Huston labored over production logistics, the script, casting, and selection of thousands of costumes and props. The picture was on the schedules of Elizabeth Taylor, Walter Huston and Peck himself, who was to finish a film for 20th Century-Fox on June 15 and fly straight to Rome...
Three days before many of the Quo Vadis staff were to leave for Italy, Peck's eye puffed up. MGM, which needed every bit of the bright Italian summer for outdoor scenes in Rome, feared that he would miss the July 1 deadline. Last week the studio bowed to the fateful intricacy of its own schedule, and put the Roman invasion off to May 1, 1950. When Peck bounced out of the hospital, having lost only two days of shooting on the Fox lot (at the cost of a mere $40,000), M-G-M was already a prisoner...
...Committee, Tennis team. Peter Goasels of Holworthy Hall. Ben Macdonald of Mathews Hall--Secretary of Union Committee, Election Committee for Smoker and Jubilee, Freshman D.P. Committee, Intramural swimming, Red Book Circulation Staff. Ted Cron of Dudley Hall--Young Progressives of Harvard, Student Entertainment. David Fine of Weld Hall. Daniel Peck of Stoughton Hall--PBH, Union Recreation Committee, A. Holmes Fetherolf of Thayer Hall --Circulation Board, Redbook, Treasurer, '52 Smoker Committee, Intramural basketball, softball...
...Great Hour," scripted by Erik Barnouw, president of the Radio Writers' Guild, and edited by Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, will feature the voices of President Truman, Movie Stars Gregory Peck, Robert Montgomery and Ida Lupino and Commentator Quentin Reynolds...