Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novel, but was written by Dr. Fletcher Ray. The film script, originally based on this book . . . deals with the life of Jesus, whereas that excellent book, The Robe, does not deal with the life of Jesus. What I said was that the little short films made by non-profit-making Cathedral Films, Inc. were, by comparison, so good that they beat all other religious films to date "into a cocked...
...persuaded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to make a $1 million horse opera called Gallant Bess in Cinecolor. Due for release this week, M-G-M expects it to be the "sleeper" (surprise hit) of the year. Result: Cinecolor is now booked solid until July 1947, expects to make its first profit this year, about $200,000 net. By the end of next year, Cinecolor expects to be printing 100 million feet of film a year, about half Technicolor's normal production. It also expects to turn out three-color films, with a new simplified process of its own, to compete...
...calls "Gandhi's country" (India), where her French father was an indigo planter. In 1923 she married an American, came to live in Warren G. Harding's country. Twenty years after, Indigo (TIME, Nov. 15, 1943), her fourth novel, brought Author Weston a degree of prestige and profit...
...Dark Wood, which ran as a serial in the Ladies Home Journal, will bring her a lot more profit, but little prestige. The Literary Guild and Publisher Scribner have made a first printing of 825,000 copies, and 20th Century-Fox (which paid $210,000 for the story) is already at work on the movie version. The twin themes of The Dark Wood are timely: 1) What does a soldier do when he comes home from war and finds his wife has left him for another man? 2) What does a war widow do to erase the memory...
...Jump in Time. It was not the first time that quick-moving Sosthenes Behn had been one jump ahead of expropriation. In January 1941 I.T. & T. had sold its Rumanian subsidiary to the Rumanian Government for nearly $14 million in American dollars, a profit of nearly $2 million. Only a few days later, Germany had control of Rumania...