Today in The Post, I interviewKaren Kramer, who produced a splendid, feature-filled new box set of five movies produced and/or directed by her late husband, the celebrated Stanley Kramer. Back when she was an actress known as Karen Sharpe, she was under contract to John Wayne’s production company and appeared as a newlywed in “The High in the Mighty,” as well as playing opposite John Sheffield in “Bomba and the Jungle Girl” (pictured). Mrs. Kramer, who worked as an uncredited producer on Stanley’s later films, is trying to put together remakes of two of his two best-known films, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” and “High Noon.” She thinks the success of the remake of “3:10 to Yuma” — the original has often been compared to “High Noon” — will help make a “High Noon” remake financially viable. “I want to show how the sheriff met his wife, and more about his relationship with the character who was played by Katy Jurado,” Mrs. Kramer says. And don’t get her started about allegations in a PBS documentary a few years ago that “High Noon” was actually produced by Mr. Kramer’s former partner, blacklisted screenwriter Carl Foreman. “I have the original contracts,” she says. “Carl Foreman was supposed to be an associate producer, but he didn’t finish the picture because they had the goods on him. He lied to Stanley about quitting the Communist party when he had gone back to being a card-carrying communist.” She’s still angry that Paramount didn’t invite her to contribute to the commentary track for the latest DVD edition of “High Noon,” which features the offspring of Gary Cooper and director Fred Zinnemann, as well as Carl Foreman’s grudge-bearing son, my erstwhile colleague Jonathan Foreman.

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