Word: reshot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angels, which quite a few people besides Hughes think of as the greatest air epic of all time. Hughes spent $3,000,000 making it as a silent picture; before he had finished the "talkies" arrived. Hughes got a new heroine (the first one had a Swedish accent), reshot the talking sequences, poured in another million. The new heroine was Jean Harlow, prototypal "platinum blonde." Angels has made a profit of $4,000,000 so far, and is still showing in outlying theaters...
...numerous politicians, brasshats and scientists. Casting was difficult, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was uneasy about any actor's portraying her late husband.* In the first version, it developed that Actor Roman Bohnen's bearing (as Harry Truman) was not quite "military" enough, so the Truman scenes were reshot with Actor Art Baker...
...seeks to conciliate the South and repair the Union; Stevens to punish the rebels. This part of the film treads on blood-soaked ground, has already aroused protests from a few Negro-philes, who revere Abolitionist Stevens as a hero. At the suggestion of the OWI, Director William Dieterle reshot some sequences to make Abolitionist Stevens a more sympathetic character...