Word: skot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newest member of the plug lobby is the U.N.'s Mogens Skot-Hansen, a hustling Danish moviemaker, who persuaded a producer to make Dorothy McGuire a U.N. translator in Mister 880 ("She is a nice good girl and gives us a good name"). Thanks to his efforts, Bing Crosby, playing a journalist in the forthcoming Here Comes the Groom, will be shown at work on a story about U.N. relief work; Joseph Cotten, cast as a doctor in Peking Express, will be working for the U.N.'s World Health Organization; in The Day the Earth Stood Still...
...Home. Skot-Hansen's proudest feat is a projected M-G-M production of The Big Glass House, a story of the U.N.'s new Manhattan headquarters in the Grand Hotel manner. He has no advertising budget with which to plug movies that plug the U.N., but he can lend studios Korean war film, give producers publicity in U.N. publications and good story material ("I have 30 story treatments dealing with the U.N. which would make fresh, wonderful pictures...
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