Word: wald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women (Dana Wynter, Hope Lange, Sheree North, France Nuyen) in his composite life. Nothing happens that has not happened a hundred times before in other war pictures-except perhaps an unusually large number of sincere but badly misdirected performances by promising young cinemactors. All of them, as Producer Jerry Wald proudly points out, have been carefully nurtured in the Fox talent school as a part of what Wald calls the studio's "reforestation program." A few pictures like this could reduce the lot of them to cordwood...
...JERRY WALD...
...Pants. A jowly, barrel-shaped operator addicted to ice-cream sodas, Wald is at his bungalow office on the Fox lot every day at 7 a.m. For three hours he reads, reads, reads ("I can finish a book between 7 and 10") and chatters his reactions into a recording machine. His interest in books dates back to his days at N.Y.U.. where he studied under Thomas Wolfe. Wald did not forget that prolix prose poet's advice: "Gentlemen, never write anything but masterpieces; there's such a good market for them." Says Wald: "That...
...Grace. While he was busy buying up such surefire successes as The Last Hurrah, Wald also found time to write to 10,000 librarians all over the world, asking for the names of their most popular books. As a result of the poll, he has since bought D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (an overrated but filmable story of British miners) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (a-nearly unfilmable tale of four-letter words and high-level adultery...
Most popular theme turned up by the poll was survival. Second was security. In third place came sex. Nevertheless, Wald has dictated a 95-page outline for Grace Metalious, from which she promises to produce a sequel to Peyton Place. Maybe only Grace will think the result a masterpiece, but if Jerry Wald likes it, it will make a movie-and money...