Word: scenarists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reputedly Hollywood's top-salaried scenarist, Ben Heeht, has turned out both his money's worth and yours in the slick, competent seript of "Notorious." Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant act with a skill that at times flare into brilliance, and the whole thing, being a spy story, is enhanced on end by Alfred Hitchcock's direction...
Married. St. Clair McKelway, 41, New Yorker editor turned Hollywood scenarist; and Martha Stephenson Kemp Mature, 27, widow of Bandleader Hal Kemp, ex-wife of Cinemactor Victor Mature; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Rare is the literary dog who leaves Hollywood without biting the hand that fed him. Biographer (and onetime scenarist) Emil Ludwig bit hard in La Bataille, a Paris weekly. His article, The Seven Pillars of Hollywood, recently reached the U.S. Excerpts...
Married. Myrna Loy, 40, redheaded, pretty but jug-eared "perfect screen wife"; and Commodore (on terminal leave) Gene Markey, 50, cinema scenarist and producer, wartime member of Admiral William F. Halsey's staff; both for the third time; on Terminal Island, Calif. At ceremony's end, Gene pecked Myrna's cheek, she pecked Best Man Halsey's. Said the Markeys: "This time it will stick." Her former husbands: Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., Advertising Executive John D. Hertz Jr. His former wives: Cinemactresses Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr...
Along Came Jones is favored with some unusually good photography, though occasionally arty, it has snatches of ramshackle realism. The picture also had an unusually able scenarist, Funnyman Nunnally Johnson, who never hesitates to throw away a tense scene when he can think of a gag. Sample: finding a murdered body on his hands, Melody Jones asks what his partner means by the phrase corpus delicti. Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict...