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...buddies, and making the only living he could in 1963. Roger Corman, B-movie mogul and director of Nicholson's first picture, Cry-Baby Killer (1958), "directed" The Terror--it was filmed in three days, using leftover sets and props from the recently completed The Raven with Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price...and Nicholson. And Sandra Knight? Jack had married...
...Raven (1963) d. Corman...
Jones' cast are rawboned archetypes. Debts to Hemingway and Jack London are duly paid. But a peculiar vein of mysticism transforms the tale. Exerting his territorial imperative, for instance, Slade is aided by a transubstantial raven, a platoon of aged Japanese marines (survivors of a 1940s infiltration of the Aleutian Islands), and the icebound corpses of prehistoric mammoths. But the grand gesture proves as impermanent...
...Lilli Palmer, who is preparing to return to Broadway this winter, for the first time in a quarter-century, in the title role of Ruth Wolf's Sarah in America. "I hadn't opened a script for 26 years," says Palmer, now a successful novelist (The Red Raven), living in Switzerland. "I wanted a clean break after my divorce [from Actor Rex Harrison], and I thought that any new play would be a rehash of something I had done." Not Sarah. During the course of the show, the 66-year-old actress will age from...
With the help of friend and mentor Producer Daniel Melnick, her rise has been little short of meteoric. By 1975 she was an executive story editor at MGM, and two years later vice president of production for Columbia Pictures. Aside from intelligence and raven-haired beauty, Lansing's prime asset is her youth, at least according to Fox Vice Chairman Alan Hirschfield, her former Columbia boss, who hired her. Says he: "The movie audience is still trending down in age; 60% of it is between the ages of 14 and 24. Sherry can attract the younger creative moviemakers...