Word: vandor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quixote (Nelson Film, Ltd., Vandor Film). The wild mountain land above the French Riviera and Paris and London studios more than two years ago began to spawn rumors about this picture. French Novelist Paul Morand had written its scenario from the Cervantes classic. The producers had thrown out the musical jello which Composer Jules Massenet provided in his opera Don Quichotte, had commissioned new tunes from Jacques Ibert, able pupil of Maurice Ravel. George Wilhelm Pabst, exiled German Jew famed for his Kameradschaft, The Beggar's Opera and White Hell of Pitz Palu, was directing two versions...
...Ravel has exercised his flair for writing music which will please all kinds of people. To pay its way the film will need music more captivating than Massenet's flaccid operatic score. Chaliapin has been given two supporting casts, one English (Nelson Film, producers), one French (Nelson and Vandor, producers). He is said to be asking $200,000 as his share of the returns. Because he asked $4,000 a concert. Chaliapin's last U. S. tour was a fiasco. This autumn he is returning for less money to a well-booked season...