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Joan of Arc. Ingrid Bergman in a big, expensive, earnest retelling of a great story. Technicolor (TIME...
...quiet, undazzled group, the Boston movie-houses offer a number of acceptable shows. The D'Oyly Carte group has a technicolor version of "The Mikado" that does as well as a movie on Gilbert and Sullivan. Laurence Oliver's "Hamlet" is something not to be missed; seats are reserved, and must be arranged for beforehand. "Sorry, Wrong Number" features a hypochondriac Barbara Stanwyck and various unsavory additions of the great original radio play...
Another reserved-seat show is the fine English technicolor film, "The Red Shoes" which includes some of the longest ballet sequences ever shot. Finally, for the humorists, are "Miss Tatlock's Millions" as zany as it sounds and Danny Kaye's "A Song is Born"--all about jazz, with Kaye clowning as usual, and Virginia Mayo looking beautiful. Of course there's always the Old Howard...
Walter Wanger, 54, who had the courage to invest in Joan and produce it, has "repeatedly gambled on a-little-ahead-of-the-parade movie ideas.- Joan of Arc cost $4,600,000 to film, another $1,000,000 for Technicolor; it may have to gross as much as $9,000,000. A producer who bets that much on a script without sex is taking an awful chance. But Wanger had faith in an idea; and his faith was shared by his partners (Sierra Pictures is owned 40% by Ingrid Bergman, 30% each by Wanger and Director Victor Fleming). Says...
...Angeles, after 36 years of it, Natalie Kalmus, 56, sued Dr. Herbert Kalmus, 67, for divorce. Her accusations were in the richest Technicolor (the profitable business of which he is president and she color director). Samples: "adultery with various women in California, New York, and Massachusetts"; two threats to "beat out her brains" (once with a club, once with a cocktail shaker...