27 Jun 1948
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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1948
Page
1
Hollywood aims to revive quality cinema with planned prize releases and restructured schedules. Studios face overseas market disturbances and retrenchment, while directors and exhibitors hope upcoming roes from Esther Williams to Humphrey Bogart bolster box office and audience interest.
The page reviews two features at Midland. Silver River stars Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan in a Nevada mining era tale about a discharged soldier turned gambler and a mine owner's wife, with color photography but uneven direction. Jassy stars Margaret Lockwood as a 1830s English gypsy whose distant vision sparks consternation and violence, noted for Lockwood’s performance and period costumes. The second feature, On Our Merry Way, is described as lighthearted entertainment suggesting a carefree, cheerful viewing.
Yvonne DeCarlo stars as a glittering ship owner who builds a Mississippi lumber monopoly through wealth and influence. A romance with Rod Cameron unfolds as Helena Carter proposes in a bold leap gear, shaping a dramatic love triangle aboard the river.
Loretta Young stars in Cecil B DeMille's 1935 Crusades film at the Paramount. Henry Wilcoxson plays King Richard the Lion Hearted of England in this tale of the Holy Land battle.
Ray Milland Paulette Goddard recruit Swiss actor Paul Noel for Caesar Borgia in The Mask of Lucretia. Ingrid Bergman Sam Wood reunite for Titania production next year. Charles Laughton prepares Shakespeare class with Winters and Wyatt. aims to produce flawless English. Greer Garson promotes Chimes of Bruges in Europe. Hedy Lamarr in technicolor Delilah. Ann Miller meets admirer Ernie Byfield in New York. Van Heflin’s mother ill. Robert Taylor and Pop Leonard plot playful gag on set. Bing Crosby preserves Rhonda Fleming option. Larry Parks to debut in A Free Hand starting July 12.
Hollywood AP quotes Fred Clark calling for recognition and a protective association for character actors. He notes a stage veteran with a long career and argues the supporting cast lifts star performances, naming Walter Brennan J Carroll Naish Thomas Gomez and Richard Haydn as examples.
Hattie McDaniel, Oscar winner for Gone With the Wind, takes a grumpy cook part in Family Moonbeam alongside Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. She notes directors overdo cheerful portrayals and welcomes realism in this role.
Hollywood reports Joseph Cotten kept a costly gabardine pair bought in 1932 for 35 a week stage work in Loose Moments. Now earning over 100 times that amount, he still wears the same trousers for every picture rehearsal and sometimes before the cameras in Weep No More as a superstition.
The interview profiles Fred MacMurray, tracing his rise from theater saxophonist and understudy to Paramount leading man. It notes his earnings, Oscar era projects, and his view of acting plus his strategy of profit sharing and script ownership. He recalls meeting Lillian Lamont, marriages, and his Brentwood home.
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