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...Farewell to Arms (Selznick; 20th Century...
...head of "B" pictures. His own agent advised him to go back to M-G-M because he could not get him another job. But M.C.A.'s Lew Wasserman (now president) took over Schary, and in a few hours closed a deal with David O. Selznick which netted Schary $750,000 in three years. Wasserman builds his deals so skillfully, says Schary, that "your tongue is hanging out when he gets through, and you begin to feel grateful he's putting it together just...
...Farewell to Arms (David O. Selznick; 20th Century-Fox) is the second screen version of Ernest Hemingway's famed story of love and war in Italy, when he and the century were young. The first version (1932) starred Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. This time Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones are the lovers-in CinemaScope and De Luxe color-and the whole production is painfully overblown. What Hemingway wrote as an interlude of amorous flutes and distant drums, Producer David 0. Selznick has scored for brass. But what is really wrong with the picture is the Hemingway story...
...light hand might have rescued what is young and touching in such scenes from what is infantile and mawkish, but Producer Selznick (Gone With the Wind) likes to keep production under his thumb. He bears down to good effect in the battle sequences among the umber Dolomites, and he shrewdly distracts his audience, during the dullest stretch of the story, with a ravishing cinemalbum of the blue Italian lakes. Jennifer Jones's heroine appears to be more neurotic than the plot requires, and the final stages of her pregnancy, as the camera just keeps staring at her heavily padded...
...probated will, in L. B.'s characteristically forthright manner. To L. B.'s favorite charity, the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, will go the bulk of his fortune; a remaining amount of some $2,500,000 was left to his second wife Lorena ($750,000), his daughter Irene Selznick ($500,000), his adopted daughter Suzanne ($500,000), friends and faithful retainers. But Mayer's daughter Edith, 52, and her husband, Producer William Goetz, were left with nary a bequest. L. B.'s stated reason for this was tart enough: "During my lifetime, I have given them extremely...