■ Films. Director Joseph Losey completes filming of The Assassination of Trotsky, with Richard Burton in the title role. Siqueiros refused to let Losey shoot his murals for the flick, which he found too pro-Trotsky. . . . Three films on Mussolini coming up. Producer Joseph Shaftel’s has one advantage: the cooperation of Miriam Petacci, sister of the Duce’s mistress (who was hanged with him). . . . Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland to play Majorie and Thomas Melville in Whose Heaven, Whose Earth. Melvilles are the ex-nun and ex-priest who became part of the Catonsville Nine.
Sidney Lumet directing the screen version of David Merrick’s harrowing Broadway hit of a season ago, Child’s Play. Robert Preston and James Mason will star in the shocker set in a Catholic boys’ school. . . . Pier Paolo Pasolini is producer/director of Canterbury Tales, featuring Orson Welles. . . . Scott Fitzgerald did a screenplay, Babylon Revisited, just before his death. It was never filmed. Now Universal plans todoitas scripted, with Lamont Johnson directing.
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