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: ¶James Feniipore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Columbia announced, will reach the screen as Last of the Redmen. ¶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...
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