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"AMBER" COMES CLEAN
FOR THE SCREEN
HOLLYWOOD — I approached
the subject with all the delicacy at
my command. How, I asked Philip
Dunne, had be gone about laun
dering “Forever Amber” for the
screen?
The towering film writer regard
ed me through horn-rimmed spec
tates with dignified reproach be
fitting a Harvard man, which he
is, or a Sunday School superinten
dent, which he is not.
“There’s a popular misconcep
tion that ‘Forever Amber’ is a1
highly pornographic book,” he j
said. “Actually it is a fine histori
cal novel in which sex is a very
minor and incidental element.”
Naturally some of that will fall!
by the wayside in the process of
condensing a novel of some 900
pages into a movie of perhaps an
hour and a half.
And how will the residue be
presented? Dunne smiled.
‘‘By techniques, such as the
fadeout, that are as old as the i
^jnovies themselves.”
“Forever Amber,” I could see,
really has given the movies no
new problems at all.
The scripter assigned the for
midable task of transcribing this
best-seller to the screen is 38 years I
old, six feet, three inches tall, |
slender and athletic-looking, with
freckles and short-cropped sandy
hair. He spent four war years in
his native New York City in ■
charge of producing movies for'
the OWI’s overseas use.
Dunne’s last screenplay was
% “How Green Was My Valley.” He
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Let others try to cast a lofty
artiness about the acting trade.
‘‘It’s a business, a way to make a
living,” says down-to-earth Frank
McHugh after 35 years at it. His
success rule? ‘‘Aw, I try to play
what comes along; that’s all.”
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