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Film Bulletin (18/Mar/1946) - Studio Size-Ups: United Artists

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David O. Selznick has set Alfred Hitchcock for the directorial assignment on "The Paradine Case" in which Laurence Olivier will be starred. Olivier arrives here from England shortly. No other casting yet and no starting date announced. Meanwhile, Hitchcock has bought the rights to "Operation Annie," which he plans to make in his new independent set-up (everybody definitely "wants to get into this act!"). This is the story by Major Patrick Dolan of the secret work of Radio Luxembourg during the war. It has already had wide publicity and should make typical Hitchcock fare.

Boris Morros and William LeBaron are all set with their Federal Films production of "Carnegie Hall." The picture will be done in Technicolor and seventeen top music figures are scheduled for appearance, including: Serge Koussevitzsky and the Boston Symphony, Bruno Walter and the Philadelphia Symphony, Walter Damrosch, the Vatican Choir, Artur Rubenstein, Jose Iturbi, Vladimir Horowitz, Lily Pons, John Charles Thomas, Lauritz Melchior, Mischa Elman, Victor Borge, Alec Templeton, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey and Vaughn Monroe with their bands. How Federal proposes to borrow Melchior and Iturbi from MGM has not as yet been clarified. The Vatican Choir sequence will be shot in Rome. As soon as studio space is available at General Service, the production will go.

Benedict Bogeaus, attempting his most ambitious production program, has announced a 100% increase in ad budgets on all of his pictures scheduled for the coming year. "Mr. Ace" (George Raft-Sylvia Sidney) currently resuming shooting after a three-week lay-off due to Raffs illness, will be the first to benefit by the upped program. "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber," which will star Gregory Peck, and "The Life and Loves of Anna Pavlova," starring Tamara Toumanova, will be the next two. These films will be produced by Bogeaus in association with Casey Robinson.

Besides "Mr. Ace," "Angel on My Shoulder" (Paul Mum-Anne Baxter) and "The Strange Woman" (Hedy Lamarr-George Sanders) continue for this outfit.

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