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Clift recently finished his third picture, William Wyler's The Heiress. Now he is committed to Liberty Films, a Paramount subsidiary, for three more (which must be directed by Wyler, Frank Capra or George Stevens). Meanwhile, he is free to accept offers from Broadway, where he is also in great demand. One offer is for Lillian Hellman's forthcoming dramatization of the best-selling The Naked and the Dead. Clift doesn't know whether he'll do it : he hasn't seen the script...
...Treasury finally got around to the tentative listing of the nation's top wage-earners for 1946.* Cinemagnate Charles P. Skouras (for the second straight year) led the field with $985,300. Other movie folk in the top ten: Director William (The Best Years of Our Lives) Wyler ($432,000) and Bing Crosby ($325,000). Betty ("Legs") Grable, with a tidy $299,300, was the top moneymaker among U.S. women (trumpeting husband Harry James did $100,036 worth of breadwinning in the movies alone). Automaker Charles E. Wilson (General Motors) made $337,193, and the late super-Huckster George...
...flown into Los Angeles saying, "I have come in the interests of peace." California was not like the Middle West, which had received its native lowan for the most part with austere interest. In Hollywood, pink-hued stars turned out to welcome him with huzzas. Film Director William Wyler entertained him. A capacity crowd of 30,000 filled Gilmore Stadium to cheer him. Contributions rolled in. Charlie Chaplin's wife Oona signed a check...
...this ill wind, there was some good. It had, at least, blown many of the best directors (Frank Capra, William Wyler, Leo McCarey) out of the ranks of the independents and back into the fold of the big studios. Their talents would help in the troubled times ahead. How troubled would they...
When prize-day came, however, neither nation brought home a very hefty load of bacon. Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (Rank) was awarded honors as the best production job of 1946; but a U.S. picture was the only one to receive more than one award. William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn) was honored as the best story (by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel), and Myrna Loy was named the year's best actress for her work in the picture. Brussels' equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar, a bronze...