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...famous Hollywood team of Director Frank Capra & Writer Robert Riskin have wowed the public with several fairly intimate little pictures including It Happened One Night and You Can't Take It With You. They have also wowed the public with whoppers: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon. Director Capra, working without his Alter Ego Riskin, wowed the public with the heroic scale of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The bigger these pictures have gotten, the simpler have been their basic sentiments. The vast Tibetan spaces of Lost Horizon enclosed the theme BE KIND (Capra's own description...
...last fortnight Bob Riskin, weary of the constant harangues that working for Mr. Goldwyn entails, threw up his contract, this week sailed for Europe. Last week Frank Capra, completing Mr. Smith Goes to Washington under his Columbia contract, announced that, instead of signing another, he would rejoin Riskin in the fall as Frank Capra Productions, Inc. Since high-powered Screenwriters Gene Towne and Graham Baker have also set up shop for themselves this year (TIME, May 29), Hollywood saw a Trend. Though the Capra-Riskin production plans remained their secret, neither they nor anyone else thought they would have much...
Tops among Hollywood writer-director teams for many a year were hairy little Frank Capra, who used to be a Mack Sennett gagman, and baldish Robert Riskin, who got into the movie business when a shirt manufacturer he was working for decided to take a flier in shorts. During the six years they worked together for Columbia, Capra & Riskin turned out a dazzling string of critical and box-office successes, Lady For a Day, Broadway Bill, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You. They won their share...
...Gentlemen in attendance" signing this Dutch-treat invitation included such prime Hollywood good fellows as Robert Benchley, James Cagney, Charles Chaplin, Gary Grant, Mark Hellinger, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Robert Riskin, Edward G. Robinson, Randolph Scott, et al., to the number...
...under a big bushel. Most screenwriters with big names made them elsewhere, like Ben Hecht, Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker. Some, like Grover Jones and Frances Marion, have big names in Hollywood that mean little to outsiders. Others, like Wesley Ruggles' Claude Binyon or Frank Capra's Robert Riskin, won fame as co-members of celebrated director-writer teams. Still others, like Darryl Zanuck and Alfred Hitchcock, got their glory in bigger jobs. As compensation for their comparative obscurity, screen authors work more steadily than playwrights and generally make more money. Last week a highly successful screenwriter started...