Word: questionmarks
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Propaganda was a questionmark, with Hollywood evenly divided between plans to capitalize on War headlines, and plans to make traditional escapist pictures. Samuel Goldwyn announced Blackout Over Europe; Warner Brothers, who fired the first shot this year with Confessions of a Nazi Spy, announced a string of comedies. Charles Chaplin continued with The Dictator, and Paramount bought the timely Battalion of Death. Though War Department plans for drafting industry naturally include the cinema, only hint last week from Washington was a request to advance the release date on two patriotic pictures: M. G. M.'s Thunder Afloat (about...
...shelved in 1936); The Wizard of Oz in Technicolor; Northwest Passage with Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy and Robert Taylor; Quo Vadis?; The Women with Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford. M-G-M will also release Producer David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind. Biggest M-G-M questionmark is fox-faced Hedy Lamarr, who after seven months of grooming at M-G-M was borrowed by Producer Walter Wanger and made an overnight sensation in Algiers. M-G-M has scrapped a Lamarr-Spencer Tracy picture, is now filming a Lamarr-Robert Taylor vehicle, Lady of the Tropics...