Sixty Years in Show Business

For five weeks in early spring, prim Boston put on the pancake make-up and false eyelashes of a Hollywood movie set. Producer-director Otto Preminger, who delights in cutting across the grain of orthodoxy, came to Kennedyville-on-the-Charles for outdoor shots of key scenes in The Cardinal. He invited a handful of writers to come up and see him transfer to the screen a section of Henry Morton Robinson’s best-selling novel of thirteen years ago. The movie will have a gala pre-Christmas opening in Boston.

The day began in typical movie fashion with breakfast for the principals in the Kenmore Hotel where everybody helped Miss Dorothy Gish celebrate her sixty-fifth birthday a week or so ahead of the event. Pinkicinged birthday cake came with the scrambled eggs and coffee in a new un-taste treat. The cake was admired, for politeness’ sake, cut, photographed and dismissed.

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For five weeks in early spring, prim Boston put on the pancake make-up and false eyelashes of a Hollywood movie set. Producer-director Otto Preminger, who delights in cutting across the grain of orthodoxy, came to Kennedyville-on-the-Charles for outdoor shots of key scenes in The Cardinal. He invited a handful of writers to come up and see him transfer to the screen a section of Henry Morton Robinson’s best-selling novel of thirteen years ago. The movie will have a gala pre-Christmas opening in Boston.

The day began in typical movie fashion with breakfast for the principals in the Kenmore Hotel where everybody helped Miss Dorothy Gish celebrate her sixty-fifth birthday a week or so ahead of the event. Pinkicinged birthday cake came with the scrambled eggs and coffee in a new un-taste treat. The cake was admired, for politeness’ sake, cut, photographed and dismissed.