STRANGE FILM TITLES
Hcllywood studios are playing an okl game called "Titilitis," but with such new vigour that it deserves some attention liere. There seems to be a competition between the studios on how quiekly they can cliange the titles of pictures while in production. For instance, a picture called "Lightning Strikes Twice'' became "Half Angel," then "Roaring Girl," and now "Exclusive." 'Last Years Kisses'' has become "You Can't Have Everything." "It's Love I'm After," the- new Leslie Howard film, started out' iu life as "Love Derby," then became "He Wouldn't Get Married,''' then "Gentlemen bv Ivlidnight." Burgess Meredith, wliom you probably reinember as the young man in "Winterset," embarked on a picture bcaring — of all tifies ve Got Twn Sweeties." ' Doubts were expressed. Conferences Were lield. The boys in charge knew that something was 'wrong with that label. Now they've decided to change "I've Got Two Sweeties" to "Wild and Woolly." Deanna Durbin's forthcoming picture for Universal will be called "Baby i of tlie Family." t '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 61, 4 December 1937, Page 10
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167STRANGE FILM TITLES Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 61, 4 December 1937, Page 10
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