The Independent Film Journal (1954)

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PERSONALITIES Robert Taylor is greeted at the New Haven premiere of M-G-M's "Many Rivers to Cross" by local branch manager Phil Gravitz, (third from left), while Dr. Jack Fishman, head of Fishman Theatres, (right of Gravitz) and other local theatremen look on. Director John Huston, who will film "The Man Who Would be King" for Allied Artists, enjoys a cocktail party with Steve Broidy, AA president, (left) and Harold J. Mirisch, AA vice-president. Huston will begin "King" either late this year or in 1956 on location in India. He has just com¬ pleted "Moby Dick” for Warner Bros, release and will supervise editing on the film from Ireland, where he makes his home. Receiving news of the 16th annual Redbook Award on behalf of Paramount for "the excellence of its 1954 product" are Don Hartman, Paramount vice-president (left) and Grace Kelly, star of "The Country Girl," shown with "Redbook's" editor, Wade Nichols. In Cleveland, attending the gala opening of 20th-Fox’s "Prince of Players," were (1 to r): Glenn Norris, 20th-Fox eastern sales manager; Howard Higley, manager of the Allen Theatre; T. O. McCleaster, 20th-Fox central division manager, and Dick Wright, district manager, Stanley-Wamer Theatres. Tyrone Power, after a screening of a Savings Bond short made by the stars of Columbia's "The Long Gray Line," receives the Minute Man award i for distinguished service from the Treasury Dept. Award is presented by Dr. W. Randolph Burgess, Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, as Paul I N. Lazarus Jr., Columbia vice-president, looks on. Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus, (left) Technicolor president 1 and general manager, and Charles Brackett, president of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, examine a print of the first color film to use live actors, "La Cucaracha," presented to the Academy to commemorate 4,000,000,000 feet of release print 35mm film. Sophia Loren, star of "Aida," presents a special citation to E. R. Zorgniotti, IFE executive, from the Italian Motion Picture Newspaperman's Guild, as a tribute to IFE's activities in promoting Italian films in the U.S. 16 THE INDEPENDENT FILM JOURNAL— February 5. 1955