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Hollywood has always had title trouble.*However famous the book, play or short story, moviemakers feel that about 70% of all titles must be "simplified," cleaned up or sexed up to attract 56 million customers. Title news on forthcoming films: P:James Feniipore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Columbia announced, will reach the screen as Last of the Redmen. P:After months of impatient waiting for the movie version of James Thurber's introspective little short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, depressed Thurber fans learned that the big Goldwyn musical starring Danny Kaye will be advertised on marquees as / Wake Up Dreaming. P:Bella Donna (Merle Oberon and George Brent) might easily be confused (reasoned Gallup testers) with the drug which whodunit addicts know as "deadly nightshade." After considering and discarding Beautiful Lady, the film's manufacturers have settled on Temptation. P: Ernest Hemingway's The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber (starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett) was temporarily retitled Without Honor, is now definitely known as The Macomber Affair. P: Britain's Producer Sydney Box, after buying a current London stage play, hastily registered the title, Dear Murderer, and notified the Johnston Office. Hollywood has regretfully informed Producer Box that Dear Murderer conflicts with a well-known title long since staked out by a Hollywood studio: The Deerslayer.

*In 1915 Thomas Dixon's The Clansman was filmed as Birth of a Nation; Sir James Barrie's Admirable Crichton became a movie called Male and Female (1919); Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was retitled Love (1927); James M. Cain's Baby in the Icebox was filmed as She Made Her Bed (1934).

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