The Art of Selling Movies #6

First Ever Opportunity to Read One of J.J. Hunsecker's Columns ... Only at Greenbriar!Art of ... Sweet Smell of Success, Monsieur Verdoux, Judy Garland Revisit, and Cass TimberlaneFORGIVE AND FORGET? --- Ads called Sweet Smell of Success “The Motion Picture That Will Never Be Forgiven or Forgotten.” By who exactly … Walter Winchell, readers of New York tabloids, night club operators? Trouble among many for Sweet Smell of Success was a mass public seeing nothing not to forget, let alone forgive. Much ado about who cares was this, Gotham elite account of things that mattered to no one else. Even tougher now to interest anyone in Sweet Smell of Success, for who recalls ink-wet daily papers tossed in heaps to eager readership, printed news extinct or headed there, and what columnist, assuming there are still columnists, have anything like reach of a J.J. Hunsecker? Fans must face it … Sweet Smell of Success is rarefied and removed from daily experience. If there is a modern Hunsecker,…