1 All Is Now Relaxation Now for Next Best Years Happiness Reigns at RKO Because Dore Schary Is No ‘New Broom’ Mimicry of Prize Screen Play Will Find By Sheilah Graham Way Full of Pitfalls HOLLYWOOD. We’ll make between 8 and 10 big When a new boss takes over a pictures,” says the producer. Among By Jay Carmody Hollywood studio, every one there the latter will be some biggies for It came as no surprise that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts gets very nervous because it’s an old Barbara Bel Geddes, who tees off custom for the new with the lead in "I Remember and Sciences agreed with every one, including the public, that Hollywood guy to off the heads of the boys Mama.” “The Best Years of Our Lives" was the best motion picture of 1946. chop appointed by his predecessor. Likes Jane Greer. The academy has not always been so acquiescent, but it could hardly “But I’m leaving every one as I have been otherwise this time without making a great fool of itself. “I’m planning a big build-up for found them,” says Dore Schary, new it stood there and in effect conferred knighthood Jane Greer,” says Dore. Jane, the So, up manfully executive vice president in charge he is a notorious non- upon Samuel Goldwyn, despite the fact that of production at the RKO Studio^ ex-wife of Rudy Vallee, has the lead conformist and sometimes talks as if he owned the one is s place. And maybe that’s why every with Robert Mitchum in “Out of the is Even stars The ceremony, indeed, was fairly alive with harmony. This relaxed and pleased. Past.” Schary is tremendously im- not in a world as as this one, but stranger still like Dick Powell and Cary Grant, only strange seething pressed* with her potentialities. In Hollywood where every sleeve is presumed to sheath a dirk, and who don’t have to worry about like Watch for her to go places under where the brotherhood of man exists on a scale of 1 inch to 10,000 miles. "small things” being fired, stopped me after Dore took over his banner. Picture Made Sweep of Prizes. to say, “Isn’t it wonderful that he’s Pat O’Brien is another star who was not it was also The Goldwyn victory only cheering, complete, the new boss!” will get good pictures under the Lives” won so of the best It was “The Best Years of Our many prizes. Cary has Just finished making Schary banner. His next is “Fight- March voted not only the best picture of the year, but earned Fredric “The Bachelor and the Bobby Sox- ing Father Dunne.” the story of a the best actor prize, William Wyler the accolade as best director and er” for RKO with Shirley Temple Catholic priest who founded the Robert E. Sherwood another as the finest writer. Prom there, it went and Myma Loy. And he liked the Newsboys Home in 1909. He has now on to establish Harold Russell as the best supporting male player. treatment he received. Laraine Day recently signed a deal to do another with Dore, one a This bagful of Oscars had not picked up its first speck of dust signed with RKO to make picture “Mr Blandings Builds His Dream year for the next five years. She is before speculation was rife as to the meaning of all these honors for House,” again with Myma Loy. now in with John “The Best Years of Our Lives.” starring “Tycoon” When you can pull off two pictures Wayne. Dore and I discuss her can mean and wonderful Clearly they something bright, shining in a row with these two stars, you marital problems, and I wonder for the movies. must be good! , aloud whether they will hurt her at The clear-cut and sweeping victory oi me Best Years oi uur “My two main ideas,” Dore tells the box office. “It can’t,” says Dore, Lives” hardly can fail to be a good thing. Certainly it must show, me, “is to make money for RKO “because she is a very good person, even a less imitative community than the cinema capital, that there and to make pictures that have a in the good sense of the word. And she’s a fine actress.” He seems to is honor and profit in making screenplays which have the intelligence point to them. ‘The Bachelor and the for instance, is a be right because shortly after the and courage to deal with the contemporary scene in terms of honest Bobby Soxer,’ the modern spirit case broke, Laraine, whose picture realism. f comedy reflecting in nice, normal kids. There’s no price had been $100,000, started get- This, beyond argument, is the best quality of the prize picture. juvenile delinquency in the picture! ting offers at $150,000! of the ones movie audiences and even those who It faces the facts life, —just happy kids of today with Dore is 41, has three children and are It does not to do not go to the movies, facing. try capture Utopia their foibles, love for jive music and a calm disposition. He has been by sprinkling stardust on its tail. Instead, it makes a picture about lack of discipline.” married to the same girl for 15 years. servicemen who went back to a called Boone He started in as a writer three discharged place A Problem Handler. Hollywood a the with in hand. Right: Paul Crabtree ducks a City, and, in doing so, it apparently forgets there is another place A MATTER OF LIFE AND THE “ICEMAN”—Being few of taproom, glass and rose to be a producer at Metro, blow Carl Benton Reid. The comes to the Hie Blandings picture kids the for whom called where life distorted and fantastic. who take part in the happenings in the broken-down threatened by play then with David Selznick, Hollywood gets players of building a house today. which is the setting for the Eugene O’Neill play, “The National Theater for two weeks, starting March 24. problem he kicked off with “I’ll Be Seeing Little Story, Big Picture.. sfiloon If Dore can make a comedy of and Jo- Morton L. a man in a You,” with Ginger Rogers Iceman Cometh.” Left: Stevens, happy he’s a This is how it came to be that a comparatively simple little story *_l-— that, genius. seph Cotten. He likes Selznick. as a as “The Best Years of Our Lives.” I think he because here is how turned Into big picture is, “David treated me better than any a much It had no history of success in the book marts such as other prize- Schedules he handled tougher prob- one else I’ve ever been mixed up Tarzan’s Ex-Mate Returns Today’s lem with Sam Goldwyn. Dore winning movies, say “Gone With the Wind,” or “The Lost Week-End.” CAPITOL—“13 Rue Made- with in Hollywood,” says Dore. “He's Hollywood: signed Loretta Young for the lead Few realize even now that it ever was in the book stalls. But it was. 7:15 and a good friend because I had a year leine”: 1:45, 4:30, of Love.” Then he bor- in "Memory to go on contract with him and It was a verse narrative, than which there is nothing more anonymous, 10:05 pjn. Stage shows: 1:05, my And Maureen O’Sullivan Wishes She Gould rowed Dana Andrews from Goldwyn he released me.” Kantor. Its title in that form was 3:50, 6:40 and 9:25 pjn. Frank Sinatra written by MacKinlay "Glory for the lead opposite her. He was (Released by the North American not so a one as COLUMBIA—“The Beginning for Me,” which is a line title, but perhaps winning Be Known for Other Roles. all ready to start production. Newspaper Alliance.) The latter is catchier. or the End”: 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 "The Best Years of Our Lives.” certainly Again Fights At this Teresa Wright an- Harold Heffernan and 9:40 p.m. point, After all, few humans see anything with which to identify themselves By that she not work in EARLE—“Nora Prentiss”: 1, Intolerance nounced could In but one is entitled to have a best year, or years, in "The because she glory, every HOLLYWOOD. 3:10, 5:20, 7:35 and 9:45 p.m. Bishop’s Wife,” Bob Thomas The his life. Maureen O'Sullivan arose early HIPPODROME—“The Woman By was expecting a baby. picture Because here think had started and Sam was BSBa The change then is wise and easily understandable. It is admirable, that all-important Monday morning I Loved Most”: 2:05, 3:50, many people already the intolerance is more He asked Schary if he too. in that it does nothing fancy to the basic idea such as maybe in late February. The rest of the 5:50, 7:50 and 9:45 p.m. fight against desperate,- now Loretta from Best Years of important than ever, Holly- could borrow Young making it a Hollywood thing. household, including the four O’Sul- KEITH’S—“The u TRUMAN WARNS L 6:30 wood will produce another short him. Dore said “Yes” because he Boone should be for Hollywood’s recent acute ingrowing- Our Lives”: 12:20, 3:25, City good livan children, was still asleep. Mau- subject to combat racial and re- was grateful for the loan of Dana.