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-D FORT LAUDEBDA.LE NEWS, Fri-lav, Cn. 5, 12 'Elder Statesman' Donald Crisp When He Talks About Films 4 "A Hollyivood Might Well Heed 4 young girls. Instead of fashioning the industry around the talents of a few names, Crisp advocated a return to bard-headed business tactics. If the stars don't go along, drop them, "Just doa't hire someone who is a bad risk, a said. -That's happened before.

Erich Vea Stroheim got to the point where he couldn't make a picture ia less than nine or ten months. I personally helped escort him out of the country. That's all; he was finished." ing all the emphasis on Liz Taylor, you could have given the role to an unknown and let the story carry the picture. "Instead, they went to Italy, where tlie language barrier immediately provides added cost, where the actors play around in night dubs. No wonder they get involved with each other they don't know anyone else in those countries." He added mat the star system reached the point of inanity when the late Gary Cooper in his mature years was stilt 3 INTO USTON vs.

Ill 10 PATTERSON OFFICIAL FIGHT FILMS yii i USHiJ U. StadiM 14. I Crisp is realistic enough to Days" won't eome back. But be also holds that some lessons can be learned from the past "I borrowed $3,700 so I could finish directing the battle scenes in 'Birth of a he recalled. "I did them in three weeks, and they still hold up pretty well.

You can imagine what they would cost today. "I was directing a comedy one day and quit at noon. I was back at 3 o'clock to finish up the picture. In the meantime I had gone over to 'Birth of a Nation' and played U.S. Grant at Appomattox." M-G-M presents riEnn I Si BA'lIBffiB JAMES TODAY wto.

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(Jl When Donald Crisp talks about the movie busness, Hollywood Blight weB listen. It's not merely because Crisp has served as a film actor longer than anyone else. He started at $3.50 per day in 1906, through he playfully claims it was his father who made those early flickers. Ha has another credential as elder statesman to the film industry. As adviser to A.

P. Gian-nini, he helped finance movies during their formative years. "Without Hie Bank of Italy (now the Bank of America), the movie business would never have grown to what it became, said Crisp. REFLECTIONS The actor is now making his 428th film, "Spencer's Mountain, and he paused for some reflections on the state of the industry. It is: Bad.

"I think the star system has gotten out of hand," he commented. "When you have a star running up the bill for one movie to $26 million by stub-borness and I am referring to 'Mutiny on the Bounty" then something is terribly wrong. "Wbea a picture like -Cleopatra requires I79-M million to pay off partly Because of one star thea somebody is bring stupid. "The whole thing has gotten out of hand. People like Frank Sinatra are not just stars any more; they are moguls.

I just don't think stars are that important "Somebody has got to blow the whistle. Somebody has got to stay on the set and say, 'No, you can't spend $5 million for that sequence; we'll find some other way to get the point across." 'Cleopatra could have been BOOBY PRIZE Fess Parker, star of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" on ABC-TV, says they're running a contest in Cuba for the best essay on "Why I Dislike Communism." First prize is a gold-plated tombstone! made for million right here in Hollywood. Instead of throw- Nortk Ft. Staf R.

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