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The Shelby home was built at a cost of $62,000. It is not the usual "false front" movie set, but a pretentious mansion, completely furnished thruout
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the sibilant hisses from the youthful element in the first — and only — balcony as Simon Legree did his stuff.
It is fortunate that Carl Laemmle possessed a real understanding of the way in which "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is enshrined in the heart of all America when he prepared to transfer this classic to celluloid.
The phrase, "a million-dollar picture," has become almost a bromide in Hollywood, yet the Universal production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is being carried out on a scale so lavish and spectacular that a million dollars is a conserva
. with some
Here Uncle Tom, played by James Lowe, watches another slave at a whipping-post
Topsy does her stuff, of course. And in this enlightened age
we'll probably recognize her stuff as the good old Charleston.
Mona Ray plays Topsy . . . Aileen Manning is the shocked
Aunt Ophelia and John Roche plays St. Clair
tive estimate of its final . cost.
It is difficult to convey any adequate idea of the t r em e n d o u s a m o u n t of labor and expense i n
volved in this ambitious undertaking. Not only are the sets constructed for the picture built on an unusually lavish scale, but they are as historically correct down to the last detail as painstaking research and master craftsmen can make them. Before a 'camera even turned on the picture, a large research staff spent nearly a year delving into the dusty archives of ante-bellum days and gathering all available data on the period of the story.
Costumes sufficient to clothe a sizable little army were specially made to order at an outlay of tens of thousands of dollars. Antique "props," ranging from andirons to complete room' furnishings, were either bought outright or rented. Countless other small props were manufactured by hand to augment these authentic originals. The entire technical and creative forces of the studio staff were called into action for the building of the big and historically correct sets on the Universal City "back ranch."
The Shelby home was built at a cost of $62,000, the St. Clair home cost $70,000, and a plantation home for Simon Lcgrcc cost another $40,000. These pretentious mansions are four-walled instead of being the usual "false front" movie set, and are completely finished inside as (Continued on page 110)
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