Fantastic was Hollywood's word for it. A 34-year-old ex-film cutter and a 37-year-old ex-pressagent, with a total capital of $25,000, brashly announced last year that they were going to make a million-dollar A movie.
Last week, when their tiny Screen Plays, Inc. released its million-dollar movie, So This Is New York, Hollywood had another word for it: luck. It was that—and considerably more.
Here Comes Morgan. In May 1947, taciturn, brilliant Stanley Kramer, who had almost made it as a movie producer when war came, and squat, shrewd George Glass, known as "an honest...