MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000200060001-6
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 16, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

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EEP ARGUING with Wai-
te' 'Wenger that I wish he
wouldn't make the life story of
Barbara Graham, the woman
who went to the gas chamber.
But he feels when his picture
comes out he will have material
no one has ever seen. At any
rate, he has completely sold
Susan Hayward on the pictur
which starts in January.
"Everyone talked against
'Smash-Up' which I did with
Susan showing her as an alco-
holic," Walter said.
"But murder is different from
drink," I told him.
Be that as it may, Joe Man-
kiewicz (who will release the
Wenger picture for his Figueroa
Company) held a press confer-
ence in New York yesterday say-
ing the Graham movie is defi-
nitely scheduled. Joe also told
the press about "The Quiet
American," which he just com-
pleted in Europe with Audie
Murphy.
dNew York Journal-American
Wed., Oct. 9, 1957.23
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Motion
By LOUELLA 0. PARSONS
Picture Editor, International News Service
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1957.
FILM TO BE BASED
ON COAST MURDER
'Barbara Graham Story' to
Star Susan Hayward?Fox
Buys Hutchinson Novel
By THOMAS M. PRYOR
Special to The New York Times.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 8
?Susan ..Hayward will star in
"The Barbara Graham Story,"
tentative title for a motion pic-
ture based on a sensational
California murder trial.
The film will be produced by
Walter Wenger_ for Figaro,
Inc., the independent company
headed by Joseph L. Man-
kiewicz.
Mrs. Graham and two male
companions were convicted and
executed in 1955 for the murder
of Mrs. Mabel Monahan, a
wealthy Los Angeles widow.
Last month Walter Wanger
Pictures, Inc., obtained Supe-
rior Court approval in Los An-
geles of terms whereby Mrs.
Graham's husband and minor
sOn received payment of $5,000
in consideration for story clear-
ance rights.
The screenplay is being writ-
ten by Don Mankiewiczr- who
is drawing from public records
as well as from 'a story written
by Ed Montgomery, crime re-
porter for The San Francisco
Examiner. According to Mr.
Wenger, "Mr. Montgomery
takes the position in his story
that he was one who helped
to set public *pinion against
Mrs. Graham and expresses re-
gret over the sensational han-
dling of the story in the press."
"We. will try to present all
the 'circumstances as honestly
as possible," Mr. Wanger added,
"and we believe the picture will
have a great bearing on cases
involving capital punishment."
Filming is scheduled to begin
here in January. The picture
is to be released as part of Fig-
aro's production - distribution
contract with United Artists.
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