The Archive · 1939

Big Pictures Still Being Made

This costume element is expected to save the $3,000,000 spent on "Gone With the Wi Were it a modern picture, its life would be limited to {xo or three years, Warners' "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" is in the same category. At Paramount "The Light That Failed" and "Rulers of the Sea," - two of the studio's biggest films for 1939-40, were designed largely for British audiences, and while this market has been: curtailed, the fact that both are pictures" has relieved the s anxiety.

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