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Show "Blue" Opens in Mooli On Same Day as Premier "Blue", the Paramount motion mo-tion picture filmed in Moab last summer, will open at. the Grand Vu Theater in Moab on April. 23, the same date.it is scheduled, for a Salt Lake City preview. - Manager of the Grand Vu, Mrs. Helen Ossana, traveled to Salt Lake . City - last week to. make . special' . arrangements, arrange-ments, for the movie through the facilities of her film buyer and booker'.' It ' will ' have a five. day run in Moab., . . Mrs. Ossana said the .film official ' had " reviewed the western - movie, and - his' reception re-ception -was most, enthusiastic, enthusias-tic, .As with .all. Moab-made movies, he said, the scenery, is tremendous ; the color is exceptionally good. Blue turned put to be an excellent western movie, he commented. comment-ed. ' The world premier df "Blue" was originally scheduled sched-uled in Moab but the Chamber Cham-ber movie committee was advised ad-vised during a tour of Hollywood Holly-wood studios last month that the motion picture company had been forced to make a change in plans due to limit of indoor theater space in Moab. Mo-ab. In addition to the Paramount Para-mount cast and film officials who will attend the first public pub-lic showing of the western movie, a large delegation of London filming personnel have made reservations. Par- amount was forced to seek larger quarters, namely the Utah -Theater, in Salt Lake City. . . . Moab made state and studio stu-dio history last year when Paramount, filmed "Blue" & another feature, "Fade-In", simultaneously in the area. The films are the first Hollywood Holly-wood pictures to be made in.. , entirety in the Slate. It will be old home week for Moabites when the film version of "Blue" arrives. Throughout last summer both "Blue" and "Fade:In" were advertised on the downtown Holiday Theater marquee. Moabites became accustomed to. meeting familiar Hollywood personalities on the streets, and a large number of locals took part in the film in various var-ious capacities. Principals in "Blue" included in-cluded Terrence Stamp, Joanna Joan-na Pettet, Karl Maiden, Ric-cardo Ric-cardo Montalban, Stathis Gialleis, and other notables; co-producer Judd Bernard, Director Silvio. Narizzano, and other personnel who spen the summer in Moab plan to fly to Salt Lake City for the premier. Principals in Fade-in, the movie made in and about Moab, were Barbara Loden and Bert Reynolds. No release re-lease date for this film has been announced. Both pictures pic-tures have received advance L publicity in national publications publica-tions throughout the winter. |
