Word: scenarists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Tom C. Geraghty, 62, veteran scenarist and ex-head of the OWI's Holly wood bureau; in Hollywood. Connected with many a foreign film, he once did a historical picture for Mussolini, was paid off one-fifth in cash, four-fifths in olive...
RETURN TO THE VINEYARD - Mary Loos & Walter Duranty-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Scenarist Loos and Reporter Duranty speculate on what happens when the surviving citizens of a Nazi-ruined village go back to it after the war. The citizens of Vineyard, a winegrowing village, live in caves, work hard to restore the blighted grape vines, manage to start a new life despite terrific obstacles. Young Anna's mind is cleared by her love of Joseph, Leah's viciousness subsides when her German lover is allowed to enter the community. Hollywood will not have to revise the ending...
...four sons of the late great Ringgold Wilmer (Ring) Lardner. Each had carried on in his father's field. John, the eldest, Newsweek's able war correspondent in Africa and Europe, is temporarily writing the New Yorker's cinema reviews. Ringgold Jr. is a Hollywood scenarist (Woman of the Year). James, the third son, went to Spain during the civil war as a New York Herald Tribune reporter, joined the Loyalists' International Brigade, was killed in battle...
Truth in Wartime. Do Russian writers tell the truth? The other night I heard the extremely popular, 29-year-old poet, novelist, playwright, scenarist, journalist and pamphleteer, Konstantin Simonov, publicly express the Soviet writers' attitude on truth...
Most of the bright, personable U.S. propagandists in London were on OWI's payroll. CBS's restless William Paley, 43, his dog tag made by Cartier, bombarded Europe by radio. Litteratéur Lewis Galan-tiere plotted U.S. propaganda for France. Ace Hollywood Scenarist Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), intermittently in & out of London, Washington and Sicily since 1941, managed the OWI film division. Deep in publications & pamphlets: the Viking Press's wealthy president, Harold Guinz-burg, and wealthy George Backer (who was reported to be spending his idle hours translating...