Word: scenarists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture (from a story by Paul Gallico) is a credit to all concerned- especially to Director Thorpe and Producer Jack Chertok, Scenarist Allen Rivkin, pretty Mother Hunt, and Mechanic Young, who plays his Ail-American role with likable, natural, easygoing familiarity. Not a high-powered movie, it is a first-rate die for the new propaganda models which Hollywood is readying for mass production...
Sullivan's Travels (Paramount). Scenarist Preston Sturges, who became a cinema director two years ago, has successively and refreshingly satirized U.S. machine politics (The Great McGinty), advertising (Christmas in July), and the boy-meets-girl formula (The Lady Eve). He now aims his brisk sarcasm at the moviemakers themselves...
...does not much resemble his celebrated father, Actor Walter Huston (see p. 98), young (35) Huston not only directed Falcon but also wrote the script for it. Seldom has a new director made such a ten-strike on his first picture. Sometime actor, painter, prize fighter, Hollywood scenarist, Mexican Army cavalryman, John Huston accepted only a slight assist from his father in his new venture: as an unlisted bit player, Huston Sr., sieved with bullet holes, appears long enough to deliver the falcon to Sam Spade, mumble a word or two, and fall dead...
Tough-writing Scenarist-Novelist Jim Tully (Beggars of Life, Shanty Irish) declared of the world situation: "It's out of my line. But I think we're going to hell...
...result of all this high-priced maladjustment is terribly funny, terribly upper class. No one could have written it better than Playwright Barry, who has written it often (Holiday, The Animal Kingdom, et al.}. No one could have adapted it better than pink-faced, pink-thinking Scenarist Donald Ogden Stewart. Both writers learned the proper inflections of the polite in the best clubs at Yale. Woven into their saga of the supertaxed is a thorough discussion of snobbery, from which they spring to the conclusion that it is possible to have money and social position and still be nice...