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...chancy movie business, a producer without distribution is like a camera without film. Ever since it was set up in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, United Artists has been a distributing outlet for independent moviemakers. It permitted them to break away from the domination of the big studios and take a chance making their own movies...
...dinner for 1,000-odd guests at Hollywood's Palladium. Songstress Rosemary Clooney sang (a microphone concealed in the bosom of her dress) Happy Birthday to You; William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd rode into the ballroom astride Topper to shout "Happy Birthday, Mr. Zukor!"; Oldtimer Mary Pickford made a teary speech and Oldtimer Mae Murray did a scampering dance...
...Hollywood, Mary Pickford, 59, sadly announced that she has withdrawn from a projected movie-her first in 20 years. "Since the decision not to make Circle of Fire in Technicolor," she wrote Producer Stanley Kramer, "I have been very unhappy and very much disturbed. I do feel that after so long an absence from the screen, my return should not be in black & white...
There was a flood of applications from schools (for both commercial and noncommercial permits), radio stations, newspapers, theater interests, a coal company, a real estate company, a tobacco company, several insurance companies and religious organizations. Some well-known names were also in the running: Mary Pickford Rogers, in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Bing Crosby Enterprises, in Spokane, Wash.; Democratic National Committee Chairman Frank McKinney & friends, in Indianapolis; Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam, in Springfield, Mass. Denver, which now has no TV, is the biggest plum. Among the hopeful applicants: Comedian Bob Hope and Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton...
...Hollywood, Mary Pickford, 58, announced that she had agreed to make her first movie in 19 years. She will play the part of a librarian in a picture called The Library...