Word: scripter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the first day's witnesses, Cinemactor Menjou was perfectly willing to name names (TIME, Oct. 27) of those who were Hollywood's Reds. He repeated the names of Director John Cromwell and Scripter John Howard Lawson, though he could not be sure that they actually carried party cards. Twirling his mustache, sipping artfully from a glass of water, mugging for the camera men, he admitted that Communism in Hollywood was on the decline, mainly because so many people were becoming aware of its dangers. But there were still Reds aplenty, and he had a surefire, if somewhat...
...Dark Passage. A silly story becomes a good melodrama, thanks to Humphrey Bogart and Scripter-Director Delmer Daves (TIME, Sept...
...script. Most astonishing of all is Irma herself, Cinemactress Marie Wilson, who has been playing the role of a dumb blonde for so long that she now lives the part. Marie's fluffs at rehearsals and on the air are daffier than anything a scripter might imagine. "She is so much like Irma," says Sy, "that I have to rewrite the things she says to make them believable...
...years and some 2,400 broadcasts, Goodman and wife Jane decided to watch the ponies and take life easy for awhile. But within six months, Goodie was back in radio, earning just about the top dollar for a writer ($3,000 weekly) as Danny Kaye's chief scripter. When Kaye left for Hollywood, Ace quit again...
Bemelmans himself has done time as a Hollywood scripter. The story he tells is as damply sentimental as any screened by Moses Fable. But his eye is as sharp as a vermicologist's for the peculiar inhabitants of the peculiar Hollywood world-a world that Dirty Eddie holds in his mouth like a candied apple in a delicatessen' boar's head...