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P: Blonde, well-curved Sheree North, who replaced blonde, well-curved Marilyn Monroe in 20th Century-Fox's How To Be Very, Very Popular, announced that she would play the role her way, not Marilyn's. Producer-Director-Writer Nunnally Johnson backed her up: "Sheree will not act like Marilyn. She has been instructed to play the entire part with her mouth shut."

P: Ingrid Bergman returned to her native Sweden to play Joan of Arc at the Stake at the Stockholm Opera. Then she announced that as soon as the engagement ended she would leave Sweden forever. Reason: aggressively personal press attacks. Sample statement: "[Ingrid Bergman is] being exhibited for money by Roberto Rossellini, with whom she has three children and one Rolls-Royce."

P: Charlie Chaplin has remained a founding partner in United Artists for 35 years, refusing as much as $6,000,000 for his interest in the company. Last week the self-exiled comedian, now living in Switzerland, liquidated the last of his visible American interests by selling his 25% of United Artists for an undisclosed sum.

P: Dr. Hugh M. Flick, chief New York State movie censor, declared that for a movie censor, sex is fairly easy to handle (he often cuts it out), but brutality is much harder to manage: "punishment [of a brutal villain] doesn't disconnect your unconscious identification with a star you know and like."

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