Wonderful! We are now getting to the articles. These were pre-written by Disney which allowed the newspapers to use them as they were, or make what changes they wanted to. Most papers were happy to use the stock article.
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Using “grotesque sea monsters” as a distinctive search phrase in two newspaper archives (GenealogyBank.com and NewspaperArchive.com), I found two articles which use all or part of this story.
One is called “Movie News in Fairbanks” by Dan Redden in the Fairbanks News-Miner of 13 Apr 1955.
The other is part of “‘A Star is Born’ Begins Today at Majestic Theater” in the Brownville Herald of 30 Mar 1955.
(Both found on NewspaperArchive.com).
Of course these archives don’t include all newspapers and a given phrase is subject to the quality of the OCR (optical character recognition) for that portion. Still, the word was getting out of this film through the use of this pre-written article.
James
I still think it is amazing that, of all the directors Walt could have chosen, he used Richard Fleischer, the son of his old competitor.