Lubin Plans Big Civil War Film From Spain’s History
Hollywood producer A Ronald Lubin intends a major motion picture based on Spain’s civil war. He options Hugh Thomas’s The Spanish Civil War with backing from Jack Broder and Hal Landers. Filming to include Hollywood and Spain for location authenticity. no release date set yet.
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Quinn to Co Star With Peck in Zinnemann's 15th Hour
Anthony Quinn will co star with Gregory Peck in Fred Zinnemann's Columbia production The Twenty fifth Hour based on Emeric Pressburger's novel Killing a Mouse on Sunday. J P Miller drafts the screenplay with Alex Trauner named associate producer and production designer.
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Mexican Troops Battle Coastal Bandits Near Acapulco
Federal troops report all out action against bandits along the Costa Chica coast south of Acapulco. Dispatches from Guerrero State quote Gen. Alvaro Garcia Taboada confirming separate clashes between two columns of troops and armed bands.
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Nightclub Star Sings in Movie The Long Corridor
Hollywood supper club singer Constance Towers transitions to screen acting in The Long Corridor a Leon Fromkess presentation for Allied Artists written and directed by Samuel Fuller. Co star Peter Breck. Towers performs The Lover I Want a torch song as her introductory number while appearing as a strip tease.
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Cleopatra nude scene sparks wider film talk
Hollywood chatter centers on the extent of bare flesh in Cleopatra with talk of costume design by Renie and a casting mix that includes Elizabeth Taylor. The piece notes a wave of celebrity involvement from Bing and Brando rumors to Dinah Shore and Danny Thomas appearances in Las Vegas and New York venues.
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Observes 50th Year in Films
Hollywood veteran Ben Wurtzel aged 68 marks 50 years in the motion picture business. He began in 1913 in New York as a delivery boy for William Fox Greater Vaudeville Co. and later served 25 years as superintendent of construction at 20th Century Fox. He is brother of producer Sol M. Wurtzel.
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