Word: scenarists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Philip Dunne, 31, scenarist and son of the late great Humorist Finley Peter ("Mr. Dooley") Dunne; and Actress Amanda Duff, 25; in Virginia City...
Born. To Cinemactress Maureen ("Tarzan's bride") O'Sullivan and Scenarist John Farrow: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Michael Damion Farrow...
Born. To Laurence Stallings, 44, one-legged playwright and scenarist (The Big Parade, What Price Glory?), and his second wife: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Laurence...
Creator of these bookish detectives is tall, goggled Scenarist Harry Kurnitz, longtime mystery writer for pulp magazines, who writes under the false-whiskery pen name of Marco Page and the influence of Dashiell Hammett. His characters first appeared last spring in a spade-calling mystery novel, Fast Company, in which the main victim was poetically conked with a bust of Dante. Last summer Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice played them first for cinema in MGM's fumigated version. In Fast and Loose, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell show up as the likeliest pretenders to the places of William Powell...
HOLLYWOOD THROUGH THE BACK DOOR - E. Nils Holstius - Longmans, Green ($2.50). Open-mouthed travelog of an English gramophone executive who tried to crash Hollywood as a scenarist, sometimes roamed Los Angeles disguised as a bum; told with minute, deadly earnestness as if he were the first white man to see the place...