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Metro Putting Up 3 100% Financing fay Sinatra's 3 Films Metro has concluded & three-pic. ture, multi-million dollar deal with Frank Sinatra that will tie the singer~ector to motion pic produc: tion almost exclusively for the nexttwo years, inniting his tv a @eargnces to guest s oan . pt er the Seal, etro will fu nish*100% iimancing and will sha (Continued on Page 2} profits with Sinatra’s company, Hbbart Productiena, which is a party to the deal. irst_ on Sinatra's schedule will béthe film version of James Jones’ “Some Came Running,” which will be a personal groduction of studio topper Sol C. Siegel. John Patrick will do the Screenplay. Second on the slate will be Garson Kanin’gs comedy, “Devi] Ma Care,” which Kanin will also produce and direct. A third is still to be selected. he deal is the first Major one negotiated since Siegel’s takeover of studio reins and apparently is 4 reversal of the exec's previous stand that he would not have any personal productions, ‘y Sinatra has decided to limit his activities to occasional Fuest pearances to concentrate on film oduction, and the intensity of the sthedule also Means that his nitery ‘Spots will also be of necessity “limited. . . .. a Oks oe “PGEOP ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED , HPuEIN 18 UNCLASSIF ; 4crn JUN UP rus MAY 29 1958 a Loe Ley | | 7