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Zanuck's leather-lunged chatter during a conference rambles almost as much as his footsteps, and the sessions usually last about 2½ hours. It is Scenario Coordinator Mollie Mandaville'si vital job to take down the jumble of words and translate them into a tight, coherent account that will reach the participants' desks the next morning so that they will know precisely what the boss said. Zanuck is annoyed if a new writer puts some of his ad-libbed dialogue into the script. He thinks in pictorial terms, does not fancy himself as a dialogue writer...
...kind-hearted gangster who can't kill his enemies but rather keeps them locked up in his cellar, Douglas plays the lead in a plot that gently parodies the gang warfare movies. Left alone, the parody would have made an exceptionally good scenario. The sex angle, however, in the form of Jane Peters, a country girl who comes to work for Douglas, imposes itself early in the plot and proceeds slowly but firmly to obscure the climax of the parody. Although Jane Peters has one moment of glory in a night club torch song, she is terribly miscast...
...kind of script or scenario, drama or comedy, whether adapted from a play or novel, or written originally by an undergraduate, will be considered...
Scripted by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay Jr. from their own scenario-like novel about a heavy bomber group in the U.S. Army's Eighth Air Force (in which they both served), Twelve 0'Clock High has the uncommon merit of restraint. It avoids such cinemilitary booby traps as self-conscious heroics, overwrought battle scenes and the women left behind or picked up along the way. (In fact, women appear only in bit parts.) The picture concentrates on an engrossing human crisis posed by the demands of the early air war's "maximum effort...
Your profile of Princess Margaret [TIME, June 13] read like a [movie] scenario . . . For the first time in many years of reading TIME, I suspect the veracity of your researchers. How in the world could you dig up such material on a royal personage...