Show 'o i' ' I 4 r '' July 30 5ait gake Sunday Morning 1939 I W " - ( ''' " - 1 " ' - ' 2 ::: " ' :! : 1: I ' '1 '' ' '' '' ' ' ' ' ! - - ' 1 i ' ' r' " ' '' ' ' 'j n 1: ' K r'l rr on ers Yo : 1 - I ' i ' by ' ' ' f : '' 1'::e ': -- ' " ' :':' : ' ' -- -- ' ' ' ' ' ' 'f 11 ' ' ' ' ' et ' un ral fly es ' ' " : ''' - '':' : ' !4ii 5P'': ' ''''''' 1' r'? 4 i '''' '1'i: ' ' ' ' ' :: ' r3-- ' ' ' S': i : ' tii1 - '' It A' ''T' :t1 ''2 :1 ' : 1' ''''ItIl": '?:''''i'i : " ':' ' )?'1!n! ''' ':! '!''' 114:-- I : '''i'''! I': ' ' '''' :' '' ? A"li '114 :''74 t 1h: 1' ' ' :': ' ':''4:::''' ::: ''' ' 4 rj 4 4 ': : :: !i t !' f ''''1':'-- :::''''':-:-- '':::: ' :' i 1':7: ' 4: rr 1 ' - ::f : " ''!':-':-- If i ' ' '' '"" 1 :: : ' '- ' ' '' - ' i i' t t '' - - ' f i In : ‘' :::' 72 ': ':''' '' ' ': ' I : !:""'::' 3'1' ' ' ') :'''ri- Zd' !t ‘7 ':'1:''':ii--- '::!rj''r '4' ' ''- A 1 ' '' ' :' ' '? Tt :0i' '"1'' :: ':23!C i :k7'':j:' ''!1'74:'Vt! 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I t ' t4 ) 7:f:-115-- 1 ':' - ' '1 s N ir1''-- 1 - ::- 1 ) : :' 1 X - s- - '' ' ' t c '''( eà ''' ' 1 1 -- -- au 01 ‘4)) L 1—Js Hollywood is producing a r 04 fl6O-- I d if ) S xrr mom was produced But this time no censor's club is waggling and the country isn't swebt by movie reforms The only reason that Hollywood can give for the number of religious and spiritual-them- e pictures being planned is that people seem to want and need them An independent company Cathedral Films has just finished "The Great Commandment" RKO is making "Full Confession" the story of a prison chaplain and later in the year will produce John Farrow's "Damien die Leper with the author directing it Metro is working on the scripl of a sequel to "Boys' Town" and has bought the screen rights to "Quo Vadis?" Twentieth-Fowill film ih'irt of the hie of Brigham Young with careful avoidance of his Warner Brothers' polygamous experiences production schedule is heaviest and includes a series of color shorts of the Ten Commandments "The Fighting 69th" centering about Father Deily Lloyd C the famed chaplain Us Our Trespasses" the Douglas' "Forgive in racketeer "Brother converted of a story Orchid" with Jimmy Cagney as the hellion who finds refuge in a monastery and the life of Knute Rockne with its backgiound of Notie Dame War-e- i s also pia ns "The Bishop Who V'alked With God" a factual drama based arUpon the Nati persecution of the Rev Dr tin Niemoeller head of the German Lutheran Church now imprisoned because of his ser1Bette 11011S demanding religious freedom Davis is scheduled for the role of the nun in "The Miracle" Limed 'Max Reinhardt play Cecil DeMille is planning a picture of the life ''' :' ' flower-raisin- 1 of e : ' 1 Fsther e 22''''' 1 - 3 stk e ':' s7:: - '':''::- 11- : t - N - yk f ' A I ! i - - Iii ' 1 ' — ks ( 4 s ' 7' ''ssJ4'''' : ' - AOteWaotnAwALIS4a e' ' ! 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'''': ' ' 1 ': ''-'- ' ' ::''''' -- ANL' " that ss ith thousands of is ilist mandment" is "The came-a-wis- e Great Com tteerfully acknowledged a It had to be quickie by everyone conceined especially when the budget originally planned for it to be a short of the parable of the Good the Rev Hacker is its Sarum itan Friedrich whose K $150000 has gone James It will release S0011 as d fulblength into it feature to be shown in regular movie theaters "We feel that we can reach the largest number of people through motion pictures" It is the easiest and most Dr Friedikh said influential medium today 1 hme's a psycho tie m ' rt' 1:111" ' ' : 11 i I' - ' h ' 's '--' '- '' ' '' f a ' ' r'-- 1 ' 1 j 1 i 1 Xi 1 tl ' t 1 t ' 4:-:':- 1 fr' I3 t a ''1'-- ' ) 1 t's r lf4 iss ''! it44iri twv f401 ' k 'Vi- : -- -' logical appeal too because when a person- i! abtorbed in a story and sitting in a dark theam dere he can let his emotions go without being observed as in a church in broad daylight it makes a deeper impression on him People have lost the real meaning of the church—that it should be a helpfu l influence in every phase of the community's life—and we believe we tan bring a through this populau everyday medium" Dr Friedrich a 'cheerful' solid young man is assistant rector of All Saints' (Episcopal) Church in Beverly I fills A graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary his thesis on the life of St Paul WikS submitted in scenario form aid) consalerably surprised the professors wbo Son of a veiliIiy never had read a script in USA) N ski ‘ - i- s 1 - 4 4 l'' p 1 et7g47 1 1 triv cl e'In3'" ' ' : :: - ds ' '''' to Hollywoqil y in s i 1 mandment" 1 ' to play the role of the scribe Then choosing the ministry he entered the seminary and later attended Cincinnati's School of Applied Religion The combination of business and religious energy plus all his private fortune is behind this venture Prudently he hired a product4in executive NU could shoot a maximum number of scenes in minimum time—Jack Coyle forDirector merly manager of Republic Studios Irving Pichel also rs a speed-studigraduate Dorothy Arzner Hollywood's only woman director wanted to do it but knew she couldn't shoot fast enough so wouldn't take the job but offered to help in any way she could I - took the plot from Luke 10:27 vdiere a lawyer asks 'What shall I do to inherit eternal 'Love life?' and is given the commandment the Lord thy God and thy neighbor as thyself' and then told the parable of the Good Samaritan We decided not to film the parable literally but to me it as an incident applied to the lives of a few hundred people of Biblical times" Friediich said "It is the story of two young men who belong to a secret organization that plots to overthrow force—the only means they know °Iellle'eal3rY of a man who has a huge following 1 arid decide he is the leader they need There's t a romance and a fight and all the other makings of a good picture" Christ as a person is shown only in one long shot and as a hand that heals a blind man Otherwise the camera itself becomes Christ a voice coining from the direction of the camera eye Without the one long shot this will allow the film to be released in England where censore ban any representation of Christ on the screen Dr Friedrich 'opts the lb itish rights alone will repay the prciduction costs RKO's "Full Confession" ha a Modell) 5(1 ting and deals with a subject that never before I as been shown on the screen its Director John Farrow believes "We haven't had many religious pictures" Farrow said "I don't know sv by except that producers in general seem Is shy away from them as a gloomy and touchy subjed But they needn't be dismal any more than religion itself and since the church is such an impoitant part of life why should people lie denied that and nothing d7e on the screen?" 1 i I "We Had Another has been that way all along executive said casually "The Reverend was a friend of a friend of mine—it was just a him to the right people matter of in But I d un no I just and getting him gaited it thought rd like to see through with him" offers until be Turning down Broadway could play in "The Great Commandment" Actor John Beal thinks this Lis best role The t distinguished Maurice Moscovich was relucta-riuntil he read the script written hy no dist and poet Dana Burnet then said he thought duty 1 and the wedding scene of "The Great Corn- - - it his '' ivIloaridorCieorcrieoaliel "' 4000''' 1 s A ' t ' - - jobless I '' i - - : p4'-4 4 ' tk' t' i 4 NI ' ' 14 tic ' t ) - k -- it i and he came ( s' it:ervWecit :flagazinc—rrinttil zt1 fe :' a few extra roles but mostly he lived by painting auto tops in a parking lot by the Fox studio 4ViiLoatdbvd spectades luaious sliies fed to hundueds of bons and baths full of ases' old-titu- e ' ) :7::::l' 11 :"12''''4'ito'::'''s''r:'-ii:—:- o the :4 '' he attended wholesale grocer in Minnesota that states university where he manufactured and sold 250000 souvenir little brown jugs He tried the for football game souvenirs sold business art plaques motorboats grocery and amateur movie equipment That was when the picture bug got him There will be no more of this sort of spectacle in the new Hollywood religious pictures Remember Claudette Colbert ill "The Sign of the Cross"? like of' -' -- ! -- 1 ' - - 4 1077:11 i r j - '41 7 - ‘ - i fil11:7 i -- - - : " :: k- - - :' - - ( i — " A 4 - t 1-- 1 "If 4 e ' : N : 2 1:':' "k sil:!: si-- 40Mog000ka c:-- I rNun'I'k' ' 1 - 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' - : ' i 'f t t 'i' - tt - ''cr ''''' :7- i' ' : ' :'Iti1-r g Even when pointing a moral the films are and some such going to try to be la "Father Dully" have plenty of comedy to please peop1e who go to movies instead of None of them so fer ate church on good-movi- 4' r:'' i:':': t!''':1 : ' r '' ''' V -- 1 ' 7 it: :' 4414 s::‘: x t — :i':: Y'iii:'4 ' zN I - - ''1 10 t 1 - ' f 1 ‘ I ' " 1 4 f i — ' i al — 14!:33 1 K ' 1 ' z o FI : f 0 it IS 4 i'' ''''J' 1 it 4 looks as if the movies had got religion No attack of remorse has set producers on the sawdust trail this time they're simply playing a hunch that in a world of growing uncertainty and intolerance the customers will welcome pictures of simple faith and firm belief Up to now every time Hollywood malted looking for a prophet—and several hundred beautiful slave girls—it had a censorship reaIt was not mere coincidence that Cecil son DeNlille made "The Ten Commandments" immediately after the Flays office went to work The picture cleared $2500000: Again in 1932 when the public was beginning to protest against vulgar films "The Sign of the Cross - '" ' :k ': it 4 i 1 A HOLLYWOOD ' ' ' 7 I By Lucie Neville '0 : : ot '4 tt ' - t : : of religious pictures because people want them But filmdom doesn't mind the money either IT :-::'- : 1 - ) 1 ‘(1) F11) 1 e- 1 1 I - !"-z- i I 4 or 7:) ow i 1 1 217it Ea I t 1 il 'a i 4i 4 I tt |