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...Sandpiper is a multimillion-dollar drama adapted from a penny-dreadful idea by Producer Martin Ransohoff. Filmed in the declivitous Big Sur country on the California coast, the movie offers mountains, sky, surf, birds and Elizabeth Taylor as an irresistible bohemian painter who lures an upright schoolmaster (Richard Burton) away from his loyal blonde wife. When Star Burton first read the script, he remarked that "it hits pretty close to home." Director Vincente Minnelli exploits this possibility with unctuous professionalism, fielding his glamorous duo in a romance à clef that they appear to take seriously...
Warners probably turned Julie down because she was only a Broadway star and not a sure draw at the movie box office. Disney, who considers his own name insurance enough, snapped her up for Mary Poppins; then Producer Marty Ransohoff, knowing that he could only profit by following Disney, cast Julie opposite James Garner in The Americanization of Emily, which opens in a fortnight or so. Twentieth Century-Fox was emboldened enough to leap into the act, too, putting Julie to work on the film version of The Sound of Music. Suddenly, at 29, she has become a thoroughgoing movie...
Producer Marty Ransohoff, 35, likes B.O. plenty. His Beverly Hillbillies is a smash. But Marty's first two films, Boys' Night Out and The Wheeler Dealers, didn't snag quite as much customer coin as he had hoped. So in The Americanization of Emily he decided to trot in three nudes, tagged Broads 1, 2 and 3 in the script. And when the Motion Picture Association Production Code Administration refused to take the broad view and ordered some snipping Marty sounded arty, almost. "The code," he huffed to a reporter, "should be more mature and reflect modern...
...curare was described in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week: Dr. Nicholas S. Ransohoff of Long Branch, N.J. says it has helped relax polio patients. (They often have severe cramps, because paralyzed muscles cause unaffected muscles near by to contract...
...Ransohoff does not say that curare is a cure for polio-it cannot restore destroyed nerves. All he claims is that his treatment makes the acute stage more bearable...