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P: Top U.S. box-office films for November, according to the trade sheet Variety: 1) White Christmas (Paramount), 2) A Star Is Born (Warner), 3) Black Widow (20th Century-Fox), 4) This Is Cinerama (Independent), 5) Sabrina (Paramount).

P: Jaunty Broadway Showman Mike Todd announced that he is planning to film Tolstoy's War and Peace next year in Yugoslavia and that Dictator Marshal Tito has agreed to lend 70,000 Yugoslavian troops as extras. A few days later, David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick chuckled as he reminded the world that he and Writer Ben Hecht were planning the very same film. Said Selznick: "I, too, have been contacted by the Yugoslavian government. However, I doubt that Tito's troops are uniformed and equipped in the manner of the armies of Bonaparte and Alexander in 1812."

P: Producer Walter Wanger, an old hand at making movies about politics (e.g., Washington Merry-Go-Round, The President Vanishes), announced that he will base a production on the latest (September, 1954) book by Oregon's Democratic Senator-elect Richard L. Neuberger. The tome: Adventures in Politics, a frolicsome autobiography.

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