Word: script
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overworked in spots, for climax follows climax with exhausting rapidity, putting considerable strain on the acting abilities of even the Misses Davis and Hopkins. Yet the conflict of their two vivid personalities--the essence of the plot--is basically so well presented that the foibles of direction and script-writing are subordinate...
This new Capra fable is as whimsical, the Capra directing as slick, the script as fast and funny as in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The acting of the brilliant cast is sometimes superb. But Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is bigger than any of these things. Its real hero is not calfy Jeff Smith, but the things he believes, as embodied in the hero of U. S. democracy's first crisis, Abraham Lincoln. Its big moment is not the melodramatic windup, but when Jefferson Smith stands gawking in the Lincoln Memorial, listening to a small boy read from...
From the files of the Seiznick studies, producers, the exhibit has many original manuscripts, letters and cables showing the routine of script-writing and revisions, satisfying the censors...
With a fast moving script of short episodes tied together by the announcer's comment, "Adventures In Education" will stress a new technique devoted especially to entertainment. Although describing the work of the Undergraduate Faculty, the program is really a play in itself along the lines of "The March of Time." Script writing and direction are in the hands of Lawrence Lader, '41, and Lincoln Bloomfield '41, while the east includes Raymond Dennett, Gradoste Secretary of Brooks House, Langdon Burwell '41, John Kessler, '42, Lader and Bloom field...
...Angels Wash Their Faces" even got its title idea from a previous picture. "Hotel For Women" was a confused imitation of "The Women" and "Stage Door" with the spontaneity of neither. The only original element was the appearance of Elsa Maxwell who was poked into the script in such a slip-shod fashion that she almost seemed to be posing for a movie interview rather than taking part in the picture...