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TRUTH REALLY IS STRANGER THAN FICTION
A real human interest story concerns the late Hye Bossin and his Canadian Film Weekly. During W. W. 2, Hye used to mail copies of the magazine to all in our industry who were serving with the Canadian Armed Forces _ overseas. Some, for one reason or another were undeliverable, and were permitted to accumulate and later handed out along with other magazines in occupied territories.
In August of 1945 a theatre in Antwerp had been taken over for use by the Canadian Army of Occupation in that area. Magazines which had been allowed to accumulate were being handed out to the boys waiting in line to get into the theatre. One Canadian soldier was given a copy of the Canadian Film Weekly issue for late June, 1945.
Since the magazines were handed out indiscriminately, it was quite a shock to this Canadian soldier when he opened his copy of the Weekly to find a picture of Charles S. Chaplin, with a story announcing his appointment as
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A very strange coincidence, or just plain fate. The story came out during a recent conversation with Charlie Chaplin, and we felt it of sufficient interest to pass along to our readers.
MIRISCH SET TO PRODUCE ‘‘COUPLES”
Robert Mirisch has announced his plans for production of “COUPLES” based on the best-selling John Updike novel, for Aaron Spelling. This will be Spelling’s first theatrical film and Mirisch’s first producing credit in this field.
Mirisch predicted that ‘‘COUPLES” will have a shooting budget of not more than one million dollars, and that actual production is expected to begin early in the new year. Elinor and Stephen Karpf are working on the screenplay.
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DON’T BLAME US!
if your copy of the CANADIAN FILM DIGEST reaches you from a week to ten days after it is printed.
The printers deliver it to the post office, which Is right next door, dead on schedule. My own check copy reaches me a week later.
So, take it from there, but DON’T BLAME US.
STUART IRBY INTO FILM PRODUCTION
Industrialist Stuart C. Irby Jr. has organized P & C Productions, a motion picture production company _headquartered in Jackson, Miss. Production of its first feature, “THE ‘E’ BOX”, a science-fiction film dealing with ecology is now under way.
Producer-director Gilles A. DeTurenne has been appointed VicePresident in charge of production, and Thomas Hal Phillips, also named a V.P. will head development and properties.
P & C Productions plan to begin pre-production work on two additional features titles to be announced, in the near future.
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