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Peggy Shannon, Fury of the Jungle, 1933. Musical chairs at Columbia… Cook and Helen Twelvetrees were The Couple – Lucky and Joan- when shooting began. Then, Cook was cooked, replaced by Victor Jory, despite the fact that he was already shooting My Woman. Then, Jory and Twelvetrees were let go – and became The Couple in My Woman (John and Connie). Then, she returned as to the Jungle until dropped again – in favour of Peggy Shannon. So then – but you’re ahead of me, right? – Jory was no longer Lucky, as Cook returned to where he was when all this started.
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Dorothy Maguire, The Enchanted Cottage, 1944. The play was on Broadway soon after WWI. A film was made in 1923. Then, RKO bought rights for a re-make with Twelvetrees… in 1929 ! It took this long for the harvest to be reaped. And even then, the New York Times critic Bosley Crowther put it down as “more of a horror film than a psychological romance.”
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