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...writers: "Dammit, Buyers! . . . You're not God! There must be twenty thousand people trapped in there. They'll burn unless we get them out." There are at least 40,000, and the like of the fire that rolls over them has not been seen since David O. Selznick put the Technicolor torch to Atlanta in Gone With the Wind. As the victims race through the streets, they "topple and writhe in agony in the bubbling, flaming tar." But after four days and nights, the city of Harrington has the A-bomb licked...
...with UFA, makers of the Mr. Magoo shorts) by the rumored $5,000,000 purchase of all the assets of Paul Terry's Terrytoons, Inc. Paramount Pictures also edged into TV with an offering of 1,600 short subjects (asking price: $3,500,000), and Producer David O. Selznick sold eleven of his feature-length films (including The Paradine Case, Notorious, The Farmer's Daughter) to National Telefilm Associates for $1,000,000. At week's end Columbia Pictures jumped on the TV bandwagon by leasing 104 of its old films to Screen Gems...
...Italian producers, Ponti-de Laurentis (American associate: Paramount), are left with a clear field; Producer Mike Todd has dropped his project, despite a finished script by Playwright Robert E. Sherwood and months of preparatory work put in by Director Fred (High Noon) Zinnemann. (MGM and Producer David O. Selznick quit the race months ago.) The Ponti-de Laurentis movie version of the great Russian novel is being shot in Italy and Yugoslavia, with Audrey Hepburn starring...
...Grainger. Born in Manhattan, Dan O'Shea set out to be a doctor, switched to Law (Harvard, '30). With the help of New Dealer Tommy Corcoran, O'Shea got his first job with RKO, where he made such a hit with RKO Production Chief David 0. Selznick that he was called to Hollywood as resident counsel. There, O'Shea not only made his mark as a legal brain but even helped hire actors, e.g., Vivien Leigh for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. In 1950 he went over to CBS and back...
...four-contestant race to film Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, Broadway Producer Mike Todd (TIME. Dec. 13) and Italian Producer Dino de Laurentis are well ahead of M-G-M and David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick. De Laurentis already has a crew in Finland ready to shoot snowy backgrounds for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, although his six writers have not yet done the script for Director King (Duel in the Sun) Vidor. Unintimidated. Todd hired Fred (From Here to Eternity) Zinnemann to direct and Playwright Robert Sherwood to write his version, announced that...