Movie News – February 5, 1948
A film of the 1936 Olympic Games (Hitler’s Games) “should be useful to members of British athletic and other sporting clubs. The original print was kept at the German Embassy. After hostilities began the Ministry of Information took control of it. Copies have been made for military physical training purposes and now the making of similar prints for civilian purposes is awaited.”
Movie News – February 6, 1948
“The Perils of Pauline revives memories of the ‘continued next week days’. It is the biography of Pearl White, the serial queen of the silent picture era – a joyous romp with Betty Hutton at the top of her dynamic form as Pearl White. Photographed in Technicolor, this is entertainment with a capital E.”
Movie News – February 7, 1948
“Winter Olympics 1948. Three of Canada’s girl skaters in the procession – Barbara Ann Scott, Marion Ruth Take and Suzanne Morrow. Nineteen-year-old Miss Scott is Women’s Figure Skating Champion of the World, and like Sonja Henie, who captured the Olympic title in 1936, now faces a Hollywood career.”
Footnote: between 1947 and 1950 Barbara Ann Scott featured in four films as herself. She did not go on to develop an acting career, but was still regarded as a Canadian icon.
Movie News – February 8, 1948
“I will take a bet that I’m down at the studios getting my screen make-up on while some of you are in bed! Each day I go to the studios knowing by the end of it that there will be at least two minutes of screen time ‘in the can’. And that is as good an encouragement as any actress can want.” – Patricia Roc, actress (pictured).
Movie News – February 9, 1948
Private Movies at Midnight
The private midnight showing of It Always Rains on Sunday “will be the first midnight show to be held in Derby for many years.”
Movie News – February 10, 1948
“Hollywood producers are worried over the increasing influence of American women on film production. The producers say this influence amounts to a dictatorship, and angry words are being uttered about the tyranny of women’s clubs over production. If these women disapprove of any new Hollywood idea, the idea is dropped.
Mr Arthur de Bra of the US Motion Picture Producer’s Association said that in ninety percent of cases American women decide what pictures their families will see.”
Movie News – February 11, 1948
Samuel Goldwyn (pictured), his studios and entire executive staff have agreed to accept a fifty percent pay cut. Those who accepted the cut agreed to “put the welfare of this company and industry above their own personal wishes.”
In unrelated news, Jane Wyman filed for divorce from film actor Ronald Reagan. Some sources state that Reagan’s enthusiastic support for Blacklisting Hollywood personnel was a factor in her decision.
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