STUDIOS' TROUBLES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 11 (Supplement)

STUDIOS' TROUBLES

This has been a disastrous season for' several' Hollywood producers, 'remarks an English writer. The : failure, of • Yon Stroheim's " Walking Down Broadway " is easily the worst catastrophe of; the, lot, but it is not the only one. ■ Radio Studios, for instance, have had to pay .some thousands of dollars for the remaking of.Constance Bennett's " Rockabye," with Joel McCrea in place of the miscast - Holmes.. . Paramount must have poured bags of gold into "The Sign r of' the Cross." They will get' their - money back if the film is a big success, but they are probably very anxious about it. ?.f Even 1 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer " Studios have had their troubles. They.were forced to remake a large portion of "Prosperity" -because the story became " dated " while the film was in production. -And by all accounts these troubles were as nothing to their difficulties with" "'Rasputin;" Three Barrymores in one film are evidently, not "just ono big happy family," if .we'are to believe the stories of the more reliable Hollywood gossips. Charles Brabin, the original director, resigned in favour'of Richard Boleslavsky, a Russian, and the time'taken-to. complete the film indicates enormous expense, ; .