Word: ratoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black Magic (Edward Small; United Artists) is a viscous, heady brew concocted by a Russian-born Hollywood moviemaker (Gregory Ratoff) out of a turbulent French romance (Alexandre Dumas pere's Memoirs of a Physician) about a swaggering 18th Century charlatan (the so-called Count Cagliostro). The film was made entirely in Italy at a cost of $2,000,000 (more than a billion lire). Hollywood...
...trotting with husband Billy Rose, wrote to a Manhattan columnist about the wonders of world travel. Burbled Eleanor: "Rome . . . is in a class by itself . . . You meet people you know at every restaurant. Last night it was Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote; as we came into the hotel, Gregory Ratoff, and a few minutes ago, Ingrid Bergman...
Sued for divorce after 24 years: excitable, English-mangling Hollywood Producer-Director Gregory Ratoff. Actress Eugenie Leontovich charged him with cruelty & desertion...
...being under suspicion and looks like a million dollars in counterfeit money. Miss Barrymore, trapped in foolish lines and a none-too rewarding role, appears often to be debating whether to kid the daylights out of her job or to throw it, with a queenly yawn, at Director Gregory Ratoff's head. But the habits of a lifetime prove too much for her, and foolish role or not, she gets off some first-rate croaks and eyeflashes...
Director Gregory Ratoff played ineffectual hide-&-seek with Miss Bennett in the murkier shadows of the soundstage, but generally had to wind up the game with a shrug: "All right, dollink, ve do it your vay." Now & again anxious, imperious Producer Bennett asked fellow-producer Darryl F. Zanuck to look at the rushes; but it is reasonable to suspect that Mr. Zanuck did not take too much responsibility for the picture...