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Show Normandie, accurately rendered from blueprints, was one of the 41 sets which went to make "Magnificent "Magnifi-cent Obsession" a convincingly mounted production done on a grand scale. The feminine viewpoint was remembered re-membered in the fashions created for the ladies of the cast. Irene Dunne wore 38 different original styles of gowns for the filming of "Magnificent Obsession." Betty Furness wore 18, while Sara Haden had 12 dresses. Magnificent Obses "Magnificent Obsession" Proves Record Show One hundred and seventy-seven miles of motion picture film, enough to reach from New York to Saratogathat Sarato-gathat is a "Magnificent Obsession." Obses-sion." Or, rather, it was until director direc-tor John M. Stahl began to cut it down to the 8500 feet which will appear ap-pear on the Cameo screen Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, March 1, 2 and 3. Meticulously working out every scene, taking and retaking until he felt that he had the dramatic values he wanted, Stahl ran up 467,000 feet of negative at the end. The sound track film, made separately and Jointed to the pictorial scenes on the positive, required a similar length of celluloid. The total, almost a million feet, was a staggering length for John Stahl to edit. Most of the scenes were shot 15 times, and many reached 25 takes. Camera work and editing required 26 weeks. For those with a penchant for figures, these facts will be significant. signifi-cant. "Magnificent Obsession" has a cast of 70, headed by Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor. Sixty experts of all sorts were employed during the production of the picture. Eleven different types of movie cameras were used by John Mescall and his six assistants. ' A. hospital and a church were built, the latter being made from blocks of wood which were charred and chipped to resemble old stone. A section of Montmortre was constructed, con-structed, with shops, sidewalks cafes, public parks, cobbled streets and dwellings. A giant section of the |