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International's production boss is round-faced, even-tempered William Goetz, 42, who did a bang-up job of running 20th Century-Fox while Darryl Zanuck was a colonel in the Army. After making the Academy Award picture, The Song of Bernadette, Goetz quit in a huff when Zanuck returned and began acting like a "little colonel" around the studio. Goetz approached dark, dapper Leo Spitz, 57, Hollywood's legal and financial know-it-all. A boy wonder (he earned his Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Jurisprudence degrees before he was 21), Spitz masterminded the reorganization...
There is very little to distinguish this show from the bright, glossy Technicolored musicals which Darryl Zanuck dishes out several times each year. Like all the others, The Dolly Sisters, which launches George Jessel as a Hollywood producer, has a plot concocted of time-tested staples: the kindly, absent-minded accent (S. K. Sakall); the handsome, threadbare song-plugger (John Payne); the rich, respectable fop (Reginald Gardiner); the old-time hit tune (I'm Always Chasing Rainbows); the lavish dance sequence (performed in blackface on a 75-foot banjo to the tune of Darktown Strutters' Ball). The only...
...Zanuck and other seasoned Hollywood geniuses have made worse movies. All in all, Paris Underground ought not to lose Miss Bennett any money. If it should, she is unlikely to starve. Currently...
Director Gregory Ratoff played ineffectual hide-&-seek with Miss Bennett in the murkier shadows of the soundstage, but generally had to wind up the game with a shrug: "All right, dollink, ve do it your vay." Now & again anxious, imperious Producer Bennett asked fellow-producer Darryl F. Zanuck to look at the rushes; but it is reasonable to suspect that Mr. Zanuck did not take too much responsibility for the picture...
This is a picture with a moral. In giving the story of Wilson's times, Zanuck has tried to give an indirect forecast of America's future. From Wilson's tragic failure he has drawn a powerful object lesson that America would do well to heed. To say that this picture has so far changed all American political thinking would not be true; but it cannot be denied that it has been a major factor in erasing isolationism of the millions...