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INSIDE HOLLYWOOD By Herb Stein HOLLYWOOD Calif May 3 Eddie OBrien and his brother Liam who wrote The Remarkable Mr Pennypacker have formed their own com ¬ pany to produce pix telefilms and plays un ¬ der the handle of Em ¬ erald Productions The combo will operate with Bill doing the writing and producing while Eddie thesps and megs Stacks up as a onetwo punch for the connect target Only other brother combination we can ue moment is the Cagney duo Jimmy and Bill But Jimmy sticks strictly to acting and Bill produces when they do an indie Neither has a paw in writing or direction Ned Cronin sent Harry Brand vacationing in Palm Springs a pound of dates Ben Hecht cur ¬ rently at Nyack New York working on The Yellow Kid original screenplay that he and Henry Hathaway will make with Lana Turner Simon and Schusters Jack Goodman in town running down available book material Same outfits Albert Levinthal is here for Little Golden Books and Records trying to tie up a tiein with Disney RICHARD HAYDN IS penning another novel for SS They had fine response to his initialer The Journal of Edwin Karp 20th flack Jim Denton to Europe to ¬ day for Anastasia Bergman Yul Brynner starrer thatll shoot in Paris London Vienna and Copenhagen Sign on the bulletin board of the Westwood Presby ¬ terian Church You Dont Grow Old You Get Old When You Stop Growing Vic Mature in Louisville visiting his mater on his way back from Cuba Herbert Bayard Swope Jr and spouse Margaret Hayes are a happy married couple But last week he made her bawl And well take the stand if a witness is needed to corroborate it Happened in a small pro ¬ jection room screening at 20th Maggie was sitting in front of us a Niagara of limpid fluid during the running of Hilda Crane a first production by her spouse for 20th Wimminll help Kleenex clean up on Crane in which Jean Simmons does one helluva fine job Like a ballplayer trying to land a berth with the Yankees or Dodg ¬ ers almost every member of the Screen Writers Guild was pitching to snag the plum screenplay assignment on Herman Wouks Marjorie Morningstar that Mil ¬ ton Sperling is producing for Warners Everett Freeman landed it Freeman just wound a script for UI on the redo of My Man Godfrey GodfreyJUST JUST OFF THE PRESS is a thumping antibooze book by Upton Sinclair titled The Cup of Fury in which he chronicles a half century of genius in the literary and other fields wrecked by John Barleycorn No panty waist treatment this it powers in with the wallop of a triple boilermaker as Sinclair reveals the stories of Jack Lon ¬ don O Henry Sinclair Lewis Isadora Duncan Maxwell Bodenheim William Seabrook among others friends and col ¬ leagues whose moderate drinking became uncontrollable alcoholism Talking about Movietown Sinclair says Holly ¬ woods drinking habits have begun to get into books Not books like this one but rather in the memoirs of rollicking men who on occasion find a whiskeyfilled eve ¬ ning delightful fun One such work is Gene Fowlers Minutes of the Last Meeting which details the drinking bouts of Sada kichi Hartmann John Barrymore and others Fowler devotes another volume only to Barrymore certainly one of the finest actors of our time but without doubt the industrys most maniacal drunkard His es ¬ timate was that in 40 years he consumed 640 barrels of hard liquor Barrymore earned 375000 in one year yet died bank ¬ rupt Before his death both Gene Fowler and Ben Hecht attempted to raise funds for their friends evermounting medical expenses Yet not one producer not one director not one millionaire movie mogul came through with so much as one dollar for this fallen prince Sinclair who hasnt had more than four slugs of whiskey in his life but was raised in a virtual sea of liquor ends on a note of high hope for the addicted boozer via Alcoholics Anonymous CHARLES LAUGHTON couldnt make it bacl from Texas before Friday for his Saturday Person To Person date with Ed MUITOW who thought that was cutting it too fine So it was cancelled Mickey Rooney and Jayne Mansfield will be the twin bill that night for Murrow Kings Go Forth war novel getting strong studio bidding may make a newsman rich Tome was written by Joe David Brown Times London bureau head Stanley Rubin tells of the two goldfish in a big bowl arguing about the existence of God One was an atheist and the other finally said to him All right so you dont believe in God Tell me tlien who changes the water every day
