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...Paris, Hollywood Producer Walter Wanger ran into an old French custom. Speaking before the American Club, Wanger rapped U.S. film critics as "immature and incompetent," singled out Critic Art Buchwald of the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, who had panned the Wanger-produced Joan of Arc. Forthwith, Critic Buchwald challenged Wanger to a duel. Sending no seconds, Wanger retorted: "A cheap...
...breeze of Americana, "les craps" and "les girls" fluttered into the cream-colored Monte Carlo Casino one morning last week. Six bright, mascaraed beauties, "straight from the Wally Wanger Broadway shows" (the publicity handout said), bounced into a big, baroque Casino chamber, joined croupiers, cameramen and curiosity-seekers around the first crap table in the Casino's 71 years of existence. Blonde, white-suited Lillian Moore-"one of the 100 most beautiful girls in the world"-took the dice, shook them, blew on them, threw the inaugural roll...
Tulsa (Walter Wanger; Eagle Lion), like a damp fuse, provides a loud bang at the end of a long splutter. Its plot is so rambling and logy with cliches that its climax-a big fire scene-seems wonderfully good...
...Duchesse de Langeais. Set in the milieu of a decadent French nobility, it was a passion-tossed tale of a tragic love that would cast Garbo as a worldly duchess who finally takes a nun's vows and dies at 29. Scripter Sally Benson had made the adaptation; Wanger was trying to wangle British Cinemactor James Mason into the male lead as a steel-willed marquis...
...glory, Garbo had joined Producer Wanger in a new postwar trend: shooting U.S. films in foreign locations. Despite technical difficulties, Hollywood has found that production abroad pays off in fresh, authentic atmosphere and in melting its frozen funds in foreign countries. Producer Wanger's European junket would also lay the groundwork for a film in Italy starring his wife, Joan Bennett. Of other U.S. producers working abroad, 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck leads the field in pictures already made, and will have six going at once this summer-in Hong Kong, the Caribbean, Africa, Italy and England...