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Show Iji 6 D NEWS, SATURDAY, MAY 26, DESERET 1 iprrri 973 ipRodiiacERS ) ARE lEARliftiq .S P 5 TO ?TV flllViS th h, id By Howard Pearson Deseret News entertainment editor There is c trend toward more G pictwo moviemakers during the west veteran declared tures, coast premiere of "Tom Sawyer ai Hollywood this week. HOLLYWOOD r I hope those B filns coming out succeed because the more that succeed, the more we will be able to make, declared one of the two. Jst The comments were made by Arthur P. Jacobs, producer, and Dun Taylor, director, of Tom Sawyer. Both have been associated with a successful series of films with G ratings, the Ape movies. III Id jkl It a Director Don Taylor gives some pointers to actress Kim Hunter (in full makeup) during.filming of one of the "Ape" films. Jacobs related that while they were shooting "Tom Sawyer in Missouri last summer they heard many comments from persons who wanted to take their families to a movie complained about the fact only R movies were We checked through five surrounding towns, showing. Jacobs said, ana sure enough, that was true. There "We cast Tom Sawyer so that it would appeal to the entire family," explains Jacobs said of Tom Sawyer, which has been made for the first time as a musical: We cast it so it would have appeal for the whole family, not just for kids. We went around m circles to get a new type of Aunt Polly. In the past, they have been dumpy and like grandmothers. I called to Norway to get Celeste Holm to play the role. She was there on vacation. I called her at midnight and told her I had this wonderful film for her. She was excited. I looked at the previous four Tom Sawyer films, but promptly forgot them. I wanted this to be faithful to the Mark Twain story, to take as many incidents as possible from it, but to take them all would mean a film of five film producer Arthur P. Jacobs. Tom Sawyer, says . But you can be sure well use Johnny when we get a picture where he fits in. Tn fact, Jacoos and Taylor wont even be together for the Huckleberry Finn film. Taylor said: I dont know if lightning can strike twice. The beginning run of Tom Sawyer has been so successful, I dont know if the seauel can hours. We had to pick and choose. That Jacobs and Taylor chose well is shown by the fact that the picture rolled up a gross of $2,040,502 dunng its smash engagement at Radio City Music Hall, which started at Easter time and ended May 16. That was its world premiere. It has been taken out of release until summer excepting in Beverly Hills where it opened this week. It will open in Salt Lake at the Century 21 in late June and then go into general release. eaual it. 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CONVENIENT PARKING AT THf NORTH SID Of FASHION PUCE MALL SO STATE Paramount 1l85BiNOWDR.-3&V6- SP 12.10, 2 10,4 10, 6 10, 8 10, 10 00 b some say he s dead, some sa he never will be. PLUS WGHTIV (PEN 6 45 P M. Mon. open all day (tom I p.m ADULTS 100 till 7 l'50aftff' S91AT FAWlY EKTtRTAJNMtKT st I almost agreed with you, said Jacobs. I didnt think they would go on. In fact, I thought the second would be the last. But the fifth definitely will be it. Five , tones from one book is enough. Theyve done well, some Jung like $40 million gross so far, and they didnt cost too much . . . Yes, Ive heard there might be a television series on the Apes movies, but I have other films in mind like Journey of the Oceanauts and Dune, after Huckleberry Finn. I dont want anything to do with any TV series . . . and dont think there is anything wrong between Don and me because he wont direct Huckleberry. He has other things in mind. Taylor, who has been before and behind the camera over the years, will be directing plays in the Los Angeles area for awhile, then hell return to directing films. This is a job he has been doing since he appeared as an in 1958 in Ill Cry Tomorrow, actor for the last time the movie with Susan Hayward. Don was a favorite of old movie buffs. He was the Samts. SjL and 1 Don, who directed the third Aoe picture, for Jacobs, Escape From the Planet of the Apes, said: Yes, I guessed wrong. I had seen the first two films in the senes. I thought mine would be the last . . Johnny was a different Sawyer and fit right into our musical idea, said Jacobs, who will begm a musical production of Huckleberry Finn in two weeks in Nauvoo, 111. Unfortunately, Tom doesnt figure visually in the Finn picture, so we cant use Johnny. Most of the references to Tom are made by Huck in asides, like, Well my friend, 4S61 SO is TB0LLET AWTISTS tTMB Cinema-- i fe ai Jh s Peck. Just put us down as forerunners of the G movie trend, both chorused at the conclusion of interviews winding up the western premiere of their Tom Sawyer. lease. pre-vu- Local versions of Oscars for students at the University are to be announced dunng the Yat The careers cl both Don and Arthur have been marked Doctor Doolittle, by G movies. Jacobs also produced Goodbye, Mr. Chips and The Chapman, with Gregory rUNITEO li c He wound up in the stage version of Moss Harts Winged Victory, which toured and then he went into the film. Unlike Jacobs, Don Taylor has had many successful projects m television. He directed about 400 TV dramas. all thought the same thing about the Apes pictures, said Jacobss, whose fifth film in that series, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, is just going into re- Both Jacobs and Taylor were high in their praise of Johnny Whitaker, the boy with many Utah relatives who e was in Salt Lake a couple of weeks ago for the sneak with general authorities of the Church of Jesus Christ The Ninth Annual Theater Awards Banquet of Theta Alpha Phi of the University of Utah will be held Sunday at 7 pm. at the Lagoon Opera House Square. -- ai -- You might say I won many battles in World War II in films, he laughed, but when it came to the real thing they put me in the special services sector after I enlisted. We nine-wee- k y D SCHWARTZ PRODUCTION "KID BLUE any GP movies. said: Look at Disney. His company had 43 perTaylor cent of all the product it had ever made in the 'top circle of moneymakers. The nearest to that was a company with seven percent Latter-da- W"VW CENTURY-FO- DENNIS HOPPER WWREN OATES PETER BOYLE BEN JOHNSON young bridegroom of Elizabeth Taylor in Father of the Bnde. He was in such movies as Fathers Little DiviBattleGirl Crazy, dend, Flying Leathernecks, The Bold and the Brave and Stalag 17. ground, werent even ot rom olnolj (1, Jr vW lGjoi26 Robert B RadnitcMartln Ritt Film PANAV $ ONOICM BY DE LUXE 15, 2 15, 4 15, 15 15,8 15,10 w n ti 2 |