'Wilson"-Zanuck's Film Due August 1st
'Wilson"—Zanuck's Film Due August 1st Aim l* Biff in Every Credit U hidtutry About one* •»••*" decade, Holly-Jid lama out * supers pee tarle ".Ljh ii to stupendous from a pro-Jlt)— standpoint...
...Geraldine Fitzgerald, portraying the second Mrs...
...Although not as big a set, nor filled with aa many players, the interior set representing the House of Representatives in the nation's Capitol, required just as careful preparation to insure historial authenticity...
...Wilson"—Zanuck's Film Due August 1st Aim l* Biff in Every Credit U hidtutry About one* •»••*" decade, Holly-Jid lama out * supers pee tarle ".Ljh ii to stupendous from a pro-Jlt)— standpoint that serosa ,uu»iieiain gleefully grab their L^liU snd best s triumphant t^Jou on the xylophone of fscts tad figure...
...The log book of the costliest production in the history ef M] Century-Fox open beau ja en mMf taansc ef broken pradjupthsu lust erds and studio "firsts...
...Wilson, has 47 different changes, another Hollywood record...
...Perhaps the "Wilson" sets which will be rememtiered the longest, are the richly furnished rooms of the White House...
...It waa President Wilson's request to Congress for s Declaration of War against Germany ef April 6, 1917...
...These rooms also are being seen for the first time on the screen...
...Such s fllm is "Wilson," ths wreen story of President Wood row Wilson snd the first World Wsr, which Dsrryl Zanuck has produced ia Technicolor tar 20th Centuryfox...
...the famous Oval Room, the Ea„t Room, with its golden piano, the IJrroln Room with its nine foot bed, all meticulously copied down to the last de tail by Thomas Little, head of 20th Century-Fox property department, who spent three weeks in the White House with Sketch boo' and tape measure...
...Thousands of extras were engaged to create the raucous, riotous atmosphere of a horn locked convention...
...On this set a President of the United States is shown addressing a combined session of the Senate and House, for the first time ia a asset...
...Bands blared aa noisily as in any more recent conclave* in Chicane...
...A sample of the ntsfnitude ef the production and the myriad problems that were nut, was tha scene'depicting the Nationjal Democratic Convention of 10 Ut when Wood row Wilson was nominated for the presidency on the 40th ballot by a great-auditorium full of weary delegates wilting in a Baltimore July...
...Director Henry King was assigned 6a special assistant directors just to ride herd on that single mob screen and act as platoon leaders for the madly skirmishing demonstrators...
...Heading the test with Miss Fitzgersid are Alexander Knex, Thomas Mitchell, Sir Cedric Hard wicke, Vincent Price, Charles Co-burn, Mary Anderson and Ruth Nelson...
...Wrehaptu pe**iei spilled against each other in the aisles...
...Straw hats fanned costless, sweltering shirts And sll ths excitement ami pant-up drama of a huge party pow-pow were duplicated...
Vol. 27 • July 1944 • No. 30
