The Boy with Fair Hair

In RKO's crowded Hollywood studio last week, the cameras started shooting a picture called The Boy with the Green Hair. When a spectator asked about the plot, an RKO pressagent replied: "It's terrific. This boy wakes up, see, and he's got green hair. Then everyone who sees him knows there ought to be more, tolerance." But how could a movie possibly be made on that faintly mad kind of a plot? "Well," said the underling, "maybe nobody else could make one out of it. But Dore Schary will pull it off."

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