The Archive · 1940

British Film Stars

Doing Their Bit

An all-British. picture, with an all-. British production personnel, including producer, director, writers and players working without salary, is about. to be made in Hollywood as a contribution to the British Relief Furia, states "Variety.", Practically every. British-born member of the film' colony has volunteered.

Robert Stevenson has passed up a job as director of RKO's next Ginger Rogers starrer to produce the benefit picture. He is currently assigning writers to build an original story, purely entertainment. without any symptom of propaganda.

It.is hoped to raise $1,000,000 for the fund, through KRA distribution.

Idea was worked out at a meeting in the offices of Eric A. Clough, H. M. Consul in Los Angeles, attended by most of the prominent Britons in the film industry. It will be carried on by those beyond the age of 31, the current limit under England's army and navy regulations.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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