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THIS-AND-THAT About the Making of Films You'll Be Seeing on Your Neighborhood Screen. For Marion Davies' Hearts Divided, tlie studio prop department had to install a candle-making machine to turn out 5,000 candles, of which 500 are used in one chandelier alone, in a scene showing the interior of Thomas Jefferson's home — For Under Tzvo Flags, 20th CenturyFox rounded up and hired 20 of the 23 camels in California; 3,000 persons went on the company's location trip to the Arizona desert, which is the biggest location unit to work out of Hollywood in all its movie history — Warner Brothers' Green Pastures with an all-Negro cast led to a new studio order forbidding dice games on the set, lest resultant arguments lead to the indisposition of some of the extras ; and the famous "bad-luck" horn which was used in the stage production of the play, has been plugged up so it can't be blown in the movie, because the two actors who blew it during the stage run died suddenly soon afterward— Ginger Rogers shot the entire making of Follow the Fleet with her own 16-millimeter movie camera ; her maid did the "takes" of the scenes in which Ginger played, but Ginger's own finger pressed the button for the rest ; she'll save the film for her own private film library— In a scene in Wife z's. Secretary, Clark Gable had to fumble a bunch of papers. The prop department dug up some old memos. In the midst of them. Clark came across a voucher calling for a $5 check for himself for an extra bit he had played at the studio years ago ! — At the Warner Lot, they've had to hire two extra fire-guards for the His First Wife set to keep the snow from catching fire ; corn flakes are used for screen snow, and they're an added fire hazard — • M-G-M's Romeo and Juliet provides plenty of news ; they're shooting the entire thing against a black background first, before shooting the takes with scenery, so they can study the acting without the distraction of scenery ; tlie set is kept strictly closed; Norma Shearer's ancient hair-dresses will start a new coiffure vogue, they say ! — The Sacramento River that you'll see in Universal's Sufte/s Gold will actually be a portion of the Los Angeles river, which runs through Universal's back lot, but they had to build a high dam to make the water deep enough for the scenes — In one sequence of M-G-]\I's The Great Ziegfeld, Virginia Bruce wears a costume with an ostrich-plume train that cost $20,000— RKO tried many trained canaries for a scene in The Farmer in the Dell where the bird was to hop on Fred Stone's shoulder and pick crumbs from his mouth, and finally Fred's own pet canary did the trick where the hired ones failed ! — Because they couldn't find a trained kangaroo in Hollywood, they had to rewrite Harold Lloyd's Milky Way to use a boxing lion instead.
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