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LhollywoodBy DOKOTHT MANNERSHOLLYWOOD—With all this Paul Robeson debacle, it sounds a rood sol'd note that Don Defore and Jacklc Robinson are talfcii _ The Jackie Robinson Story, lor filming right after the baseball scat on The theme Ss no controversy on the color question—for welcome change. Instead, Larry Taylor's original yarn traces two buddies.* white boy and a Negro through their careers in college and then on to their tryouts with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Defore, who will be actively associated in the proauction of the picture, and his agent,Mitchell Gertz. have offered Jackie his most interesting screen contract yet. Everything that Robeson sn’t —Robinson is! As the first Negro admitted to the major league nes a credit t-o his race and to his country.
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Middletown Times Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Tue, Sep 06, 1949
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