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If any other Hollywood leading man of George Brent's stature appeared in so unassuming a picture, it would suggest that either his studio or his agent was quarreling with him or that he had begun to slip. In fact George Brent is on excellent terms with his agent...
Warners' lanky, sleepy-eyed Producer David Lewis started reading galleys at 2 one afternoon, continued for twelve consecutive hours. Next morning he plunged into the Warner barber shop where Hal Wallis was getting his big round head tonsured, raved about the story to Warners' big-time chief. It...
Since David Lewis had sold Hal Wallis the novel, he looked like the logical producer. Equally inevitable seemed the choice of Casey Robinson, who scripted such Bette Davis successes as Dark Victory and The Old Maid, to turn the 600 crowded Field pages into a workable screen treatment. So Producer...
Suddenly, by one of those crises that occur hourly in Hollywood, Wallis discovered that he needed a script for Bette Davis at once. Anatole Litvak, already scheduled to produce the next Davis film, was called in. Lewis, Robinson and Litvak trimmed the script to 180 pages. Litvak, who understands the...
With the script thus carefully prepared, Director Litvak, a notoriously slow worker, was able to whizz along with almost no changes in filming (a Hollywood record), finishing some three weeks ahead of schedule. Whenever two or three reels could be got in a can, the film was rushed to Hal...