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Nina (adapted by Samuel Taylor from a play by Andre Roussin) created something of a ruckus before reaching Broadway. Gloria Swanson, who plays the title role, snarled publicly at Gregory Ratoff's direction, sneered at the play and threatened to quit. On Broadway the play itself should cause much less stir. It can best be described as very French in plot, and not nearly French enough in manner...
...Gregory Ratoff, Hollywood dialect comedian-turned-director, got nowhere when he tried to buy T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party. Informed of Ratoff's intent, Eliot said: "I've been dreading this for a long time. I do not want The Cocktail Party made into a film...
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...