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va toft FuJ wd kair jfaawflk "VI in By KATE CAMERON THE Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci-, ences has mailed 2,500 nomination ballots to its active members for the selection" of the 1963 Oscar winners. The awards will be presented in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium the evening of Monday, April IS. This Week's Openings TUESDAY MGM Showcase "Sunday In New York," Robertson-Fonda. WEDNESDAY Loew's Theatres "Harbor Lights," Taylor-Colon. FRIDAY Paramount Crippen," Pleasence-Browne.

World "Psychomania," Phillips-Strudwick. -1 I i to 1 ill The show is in the capable? hands of George Sidney, who has been president of the Screen Directors Guild for 12 years and is a former member of the Academy's board of governors from the directors' branch. Composer-conductor Johnny Green has been named musical director for the festivities. Lemmon fo Emcee The Auditorium has been remodeled for the 36th annual awards presentation by the installation of hew 70mm. projectors, an improved sound system, a fresh decorating job and the addition of a brand new gold curtain and gold drapes on both sides of the tage.

Jack Lemmon will emcee the program. He is an award winner for his supporting role in "Mr. Roberts," and a three-time nominee in the Best Performance by an Actor category for "Some Like It Hot," "The Apartment" and "Days of Wine and Roses. Ted Haworth, an Oscar winner or his set direction of "Sayona-ra." will have charge of the decorations for the show, which will be carried over the combined TV and radio facilities of the American Broadcasting Co. 290 Ellgiblm Films Ed Begley, Rock Hudson, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds and Edward G.

Robinson have been selected to present Oscars to the winners. At least 290 American, British and foreign-language films will be eligible for Oscars this year. The English-language products had to be shown in the vicinity of Ho'lywood oefore the Donald Pleaseuce play the title rot in "Dr. Crippen," uaevie based on notorious Londoner hanged a wife murderer. tha Eggar accompanies him in this court scene.

Movie open Friday at the Paramount Theatre. sam, Hugh Marlovte and George Macready. Ihe picture, filmed for Paramount release, was produced jointly by Seven Arts, Kirk Douglas' Joel Productions and John Fran-kenheimer. It is somewhat similar in subject matter to Stanley Kubrick'? United production of Dr. Strang ei ve.

or How I Leartd to Stop Worrying and L'V the Bomb," only recently released, and it's to be followed by "Fail Safe," a film about the dropping of the H-bomb. The release of "Fail Safe? has been held up by Columbia Pictures because of a similarity to their own "Dr. Strangelove." Suggestion of Doom While terrifying in its sugges tion of world-wide doom, "Dr. Strangelove" has many amusing sidelights and is sparked through out with an ironic wit. The Kne bel-Bailey novel, on the other hand, is deadly serious in its ap proach to the subject of the mili tary replacing the President of the U.S.

"Se7en Days" was produced by Edward Lewis and directed by John Frankenheimer. Most of the interiors were filmed in Para- mount's Hollywood studios, with some of the sets representing rooms in the hits House and Jack Lemmon Emcee for Oscar ehoul close of 1963, but pictures in a foreign language submitted for awards could" be shown for the first time in this country up to the final day of voting. THE Criterion and Sutton Theatres will present the film version of "Seven Days in May" on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Based on a best-selling suspense novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W.

Bailey 2d, it has a quartet of top star in the leading roles. ihe four are Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March and Ava Gardner. They are supported by a strong secondary ca3t headed by Edmond O'Brien, Martin Bal- II mM TjjAtmm i) litttle doctor and his supposed accomplice, Ethel Le Neve, began in London on Oct. IS, 1910, and the following Nov. 23, Crippen paid with his life.

He protested his innocence up to the moment when the gallows took its tolL Produced in England The case stirred up a great deal of controversy, and to this day there are people in England disposed to believe that British jus tice went awry when the doctar was executed for the killing of his wife. "Dr. Crippen" will be released by Warner Brothers at the Paramount Theatre on Friday, Feb. 14. It was produced in England by John Cline and directed by Robert Lynn with Donald Pleas-ence in the title role.

Pleasenca is currently appearing on the Guild Theatre screen in the British production of "The Guest." Italian Eyeful "1 sTN Yirna Lixi has been signed for the leading feminine rote opposite Jack Lemmon in hie co-production with George Axel rod of "How to order Your Wife." for release by United Artists. It will be the American screen debut for the Italian actress, who has been starring in both Italian and French films for several years. .1 i i 1 1 1 i i ii offices in the Pentagon. The exteriors were shot in Arizona, at Dulles Airport and on the streets of Washington, D.C. When Kirk Douglas finished playing the star role in the Broadway production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" on Jan.

25, he began a five-week promotion tour with "Seven Days in May." He began with a Bpecial screening for the Olympic athletes competing in winter spoils at Innsbruck, Austria. Douglas will also visit Rome, Bombay, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Manila before returning to Los Angeles in mid-March to begin preparations on his next film, called "Seconds." The new picture will be based on David Ely's Random House book. Screen rights on it were recently secured by the Douglas-Frankenheimer-Lewis production combination. Lancaster Turns Spy Paramount announced last week that Burt Lancaster, who represents the villain in "Seven Days in May," will play the title role in their film version of John Le Carre's best-selling novel, "A Spy Who Came in From the Cold." Lancaster seems a strange choice for the stocky, aging British spy who became involved in an exciting plot when he was sent to East Germany to rescue a top source of information from behind the brick wall. Perhaps Martin Ritt, who is to produce and direct the British story, will have the locale changed to the U.S.

and turn the spy into an American intelligence officer. Ritt produced and directed "Hud" for Paramount into one of the top pictures of 1963 and is sure to be considered in the balloting for Academy awards. THERE MAY have been other films about London's Dr. Crippen, who was tried and hanged for the killing of his wife, but none is listed in the encyclopedia on motion pictures under "Dr. Crippen." This is the title of the new British film about the sensational case.

The murder trial of the meek Deposing the President of the U.S. by the military is the grim subject of "Seven Days in May." Members of the star cast sketched include (I. to Fredrie March, Kirk Douglas and Edmond O'Brien. At top are Ava Gardner and Burt Lan-lancaster. Movie opens Feb.

19 at the Criterion and Sutton' Theatrei. iJ.