VIPs and movie stars arrive for premiere of "War and Peace" in New York and Hollywood

Title card: "New York - Historic Film Has Premiere - Hollywood" superimposed over pan of Times Square / WS Times Square at night / CU ground level shot of crowds and cars outside Capitol Theatre at premiere of "War and Peace" / MS marquee: "War and Peace" / CU marquee: War and Peace / MS rear shot of people entering theatre / CU actor Oscar Homolka arrives, waving / MS cameramen / CU Homolka escorting two women into theatre / CU actress Anne Baxter out of car, waves / MS cameramen / CU Barney Balaban, President and director of Paramount Pictures, and his wife Tillie arriving / CU Edward G. Robinson, actor, arriving and waving / PAN from cameramen to Italian film actress Sylvana Mangano and her husband Dino DeLaurentiis, film producer from Italy, both walk into theatre / CU Mangano and DeLaurentiis posing, in answer to question, DeLaurentiis SOT in broken English that he is too excited emotionally to give his opinion in English or Italian; he turns to Mangano and after an exchange of indistinguishable remarks SOT she indicates in English that she feels likewise / WS crowd in front of theatre / WS Times Square at night // Hollywood, California: EXT of premiere in Hollywood / VS people entering theatre, cutaway CU searchlight / CU producer King Vidor and his wife Elizabeth / MS front of theatre / CU photographers / CU DeLaurentiis and Mangano / MS people entering theatre / MS crowd / CU screen and TV comedian Jerry Lewis and wife Patti / MS policeman holding back crowd / CU Lewis and wife, Lewis mugging / MS car pulls up in front of theater / CU crowd / MS actor Tony Curtis and his wife actress Janet Leigh signing autographs / CU crowd / MS actress Claudette Colbert posing / rear shot Colbert walking toward crowd in front of theatre / photographers / VS EXT theatre