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The Toronto Star from Toronto, Ontario, Canada • 16

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The Toronto Stari
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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16
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JACK EABB ALL ODEON THEATRES COMORTABLY AIR CONDITIONED ALL THIS WEEK Stay Dinner Music All rson'J end suitet bcou The Bowery Boys HOLDS BARRED" 8 7474 EMPIRE music hour Bpod a sure iiro joke (ot every happier riday the 3th i IT i and Leslie another 4000 people were I lived in the production SUSAN I the final 1000000 1 V1 4 i JLy8 AIR C0N0II10NED A AMOUS fewa JT (nOUS tv 1 YONGS STC1 AlftWA4 5944 4051 WCSTME327O DANORTHIHUMBER semss! RAND OPENING TONIGHT 1 tr iu CARS! $4 SEATS NOW OR ALL NEXT WEEK Vivcca cwarltonmeston ROBERT YOUNG NICOLE MAUREY THOMAS MITCHELL LAST TIMES TODAY "INDISCRETION AN AMERICAN WIE" JENNIER JONES MONTGOMERY 'T THIS IS LEAH 'th wayward who came bak for one and found another on the wayl Phils TfXn'srceiOR EGflHrON'bVfEAlK COLONY OH 4144 OOt DOVCOURT PARADISE lladrSdnd BANQUETS WEDDINGS SOCIALS OAKWOOO AUCHAN GRANT nn ADULT ADMISSION 70c CHILDREN UNDER 12 RT SHOW STARTS AT DUSK BOX OICE ORENS 730 "CHUK GEK" A trv ftf ltuNilan hid Tod if 5 Holh with English lilies mH Mil 5 5 Three Thrill Hungry Dames Played Merer A bucket (r STARTING TOMORROW! rotue Time ot the AO 4 55 7 10 ot the ChrlttA 30 RICHARD WIDMARK HLB'I RDmmGLMo In an ALL NEW CXIIIUIl III GALA DOUBLE EATURE Canadian Premiers RIMSKY KORSAKOWS ('nmplei pn iGirobon In Town Today Lindfnrs the screen star and her new husband Playwright George they were mar ried July pass through To ronto this afternoon on their way to the Stratford estival Miss Lindfors will shortlv go to Hollywood and i cliidine In annAir fleet" with Stewart and George Sanders DA DI? Al Gerrard Slrmwirt rAATiSj vuntilN irb'ton 'Ahhotl A Cnslelln in foreign Legion' Jorl Mel ar Ujiuhkn' Herb) I ilmed high in the wild Andes! THIS IS ISKE th hat who was playing for the highest stakes of all his squll BILTMORE weston WIU I Iftvil4fn J8J C(jn hl Errol lynn rtf IUd kdlon "HAL A MON to RI EVES 8:20 SAT 2 SHOWS 5 9 pm Res $1 5100 52 $250 unrcstGrved Seats 60c PHONE RESERVATIONS Held Till 8:00 pm EM 3 6089 lie was burning Atlanta and in the glow of the con flagration Is alleged to have announced to the world: "This Is Scarlett O'Hara" A likely story but It made good reading at the time That first shot the burning of was a preliminary filmed on the night of Dec lb 11138 But the official start was not made until Jan 26 1939 Ailicn they shot Scarlett on the steps of Tara talking lothc Tarleton bovs In the meantime Miss Leigh Tonight in Person Canada's most popu lar Western Trio fea turing Little I i Latest western for your added enter tainment one before showtime the rest of his life without doing another tap of work Last inter on a television show some unthinking lads made like they were trying to shoulder Dave out of any credit for having made the picture He 'fixed their wagon for them The Selznlck name Is more promi nently affixed to the film now than it ever was 5 rom New York Einie Einer Jing and his boys have provided a few statistics you might find interesting Selznlck bought the Margaret Mitchell book on July 30 1936 within a month of its publica tion and while it was zooming todhe top of the best seller list The first script was com puted lhe following relnuary but the shooting script by Sid kj ney Howard wasn't ready until two years later It contained 20017 words of dialogue and 685 separate' scenes i Casting became the big prob lem and the hig hullabaloo The public demanded Clark Gable for Rhett Butler but to get him Selznlck had to agree to let Gable's employers dis tribute the film The choos ing of Scarlett however was the big laugh of 1937 39 and any actress who hadn't been "con sidered" for (he part was barely respectable Some 1400 were Interviewed but only 29 were Actually tested And when Vivien Leigh was signed there was almost a new outbreak of the civil war A British actress playing a Suth'n belle indeed! Personally we'll take the circumstances oi that signing with a grain of salt Selznlck is said to have been Introduced to her by his brother on the night he was burning Atlanta down ODEON CfARLTON AT YONGE EM? 3 41 9 I 'vate Color by TECHNICOLOR the wonder of 4 TRACK HIGH IDELITY STEREOPHONIC SOUND Special Attractian rontght At th H( 'A IUIO KO PKIV IN Http Eitght Up ladiett and Gant or th Greatfit lAttlv ShmO rn Cnrth DR BALLARD'S MOBILE ZOO of Kid rom 6 to 60 THIS IS HOOKER the tempted who walked with his eyes wide open into the "Garden of tn all more than props were used and the tough est to come by were a locomotive bell of the 1860's and a baby carriage of lhe same era The costume that Scarlett is sup posed to have whipped up out of a pair of parloi' drapes was actu ally lhe hardest to niake It took about three weeks and the efforts of four dressmakers to gel it right Corn shuck bon nets also caused a headache California doesn't normally have corn in the winter but a Japa nese farmer who had planted a late crop was finally located and his entire field was snatched bare 'lhe reconstruction of Atlanta is said to be the largest movie set ever erected for any motion i icture It contained 53) buildings 1 and 7000 feet of streets Peachtree St alone was I 3000 feet long One thousand horses got into the act as well as 375 other assorted i from oxen to peacocks i There were also 450 miscellanc 1 ous vehicles inally it finished and put together in the form it is I now being seen Selznlck had spent in the neighborhood of I $4000000 Its gross take to date: i 537000000 I Anybody around here for that kind of folly? vii TORONTO DAILY STAR I Thurs July 32 1954 Ifi onrf yma sumac A PARAMOUNI PICTURE HIH0I MOO Al JAN MUJUJ J32QTONOI1T MUf IJJl Rates Rave Reviews "MY SIX CONVICTS" "SADDLE TRAMP" Joel McCrea th Big Week of The AT ROTH THEATRES' KISS ME KATE' Tech 'TEXAS RANGER" GnirsTo'nt: AND I a i to Peace minutes by car) ree Reservation! 6 pm 2 pm LARGEST CURVED SCREEN NEWEST PROJECTION SMOOTH DRIVING SURACE TO ALL RAMPS MOST MODERN IN A CAR SPEAKERS LARGEST RERESHMENT BOOTH BABY BOTTLE WARMING SERVICE PLAYGROUND i 4 7 i 1 2 BOX OICES 4 LINES TRAIC NO WAITING Illuminated centre walkway from all ramps to the refreshment bar! ft CANADA'S NEWEST NUR THE IMTERSEaiOH Of THE 400 (BcrrU Highway) ANU nv mwnwAi rnoov: "OREVER EMALE" "PLUNDER THE SUN" 'vs" A VftW Mueeti tA 0 I Hl vri Bow Buys cupped Wilts' IV BLIIINU Till GUN" BILTMORE new Toronto Utfe I IHVilL Vonj I Ut Irrnado Lamas Alll'h tech lbd Skelton IHli 7 UNDER 12 REE LAST DAY for Murder Produced by Direcudby Screen Ploy by Hugh MARLOWE Cameron Mitchell CHARLES BRACKETT HENRY HATHAWAY RANK ENTON (i(nMrYctrMnvlMolio from by tO od WIUIAM WNtO 4 rr7Al nADfC Uluvr iflud Air rtUOB UUIUV Sterllnr HahIcii "SO BIG" red Me Mu The Moo 1 1 rh 1 Supper Dance EDDIE STROUD AND HIS ORCHESTRA SPECIAL! HANS KAUMAN TRIO Burgundy Room T' DAN DATRI AND HIS SERENADERS HANS KAUMAN TRIO rirvnrT it LIVED "smuggle 806 US cigarets into (seized at the Canadian end of i I VlU lXir I UVUUleiH Tha Grt rA Hk An Tflv On ilMtM tf'IIJ i muc run VJUV charge Lid hy the ItCMP 1 I 1 1 20 9 1 1 if I nesucy oumi umut idriver of Mackayville Quebec pvas fined $10350 by am rnffiar Id Johnstone Roberts when lie Ann With the Wind thn most nuhlicized and certainly pleaded guilty to attempting to i the most profitable motion picture ever made has come DacK( jo town again somewhat broad as to screen proportions but either more nor less magniludinous in any other respect than jf was the live other times it played here This morning at it starfed to blow again for the benefit of those thou Unds of repeaters who make tracks for the box office etery' lime it comes around as well as for thousands of first timers And there it may slay for some time to come if past per formance is any guage Mind" has been re i viewed so often in this column I jhat not a thing to be Llded' as to opinion at this date On Jan 27 1910 the day after It I id its ftossj Canadian piemieremre this reviewer called it "Ai tnigniflccnt production an Experience we would hate tor missed We advise all those vho may be entcitaining any doubts on the matter to bio themselves to Loews pot haste! for three hours and 40 odd mm 1 qlps nf lhe most ent Gaining I screen material ever to come this I ourteen years and six months (les five days) later after a half a dozen viewings of I the we still think this is pretty sound if trite advice So go We ceitainiy intend to GARY COOPER BHAYWARD Trf fiai rtwiM fvaii? (TI ADULT the Mclrol in ''Mnon Grangcr r9lb at one point though right OLIVIA DE IIAVJLJAND npw it seems ilk? a pretty silly (1 J1P (0()liact on Jan tig But there had been so much13 t'he wme day tba( Olivia de publicity about lhe thing that it) uas signed as Melanie btjratne the big joke of flollv iXpllhtr Mtress ever celebrated wood a sure lirc lake for every nP imi comedian who faced a microphone Shooting went on until July 1 nr had the ear of a night club but Director Victor leming was audience So today Dave Selznlck still working om small insert Is probably laughing fit to kill as SC(ncs as late as Nov hr Bits up late at nights counting Miss Leigh worked in all 125 his money If he weren't the days Gable worked 71 powerhouse he is he could have rfe Havilland 59 and Leslie retired the day after had I Howard 32 Its world premiere in Atlanta and 'There were 1493 set ups or could have lived in splendor for camera angles and at one Lime or Involved in the production Largest number at any one time: 1730 This included 1230 ex tras and 500 miscellaneous work ers A million hours were spent in the filming and ex cluding the principals 12000 days of employment were pro vided There were 475000 feet of film exposed of which 225000 feet were printed all of which had to be whittled i down to 20000 feet for print Secret of7 THE IMCAS Color nr TECH EASILY REACHED ROM ANYWHERE! 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