Word: screening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 a scheme designed to let him have his cake...
...shirts (see cut), Towne building up ideas and Baker tearing them down. Their mutual devotion is celebrated in a popular Hollywood story that when Baker was dying of pneumonia last year, Towne climbed into his oxygen tent and revived his partner by threatening to deprive him of screen credit on a forthcoming film...
Towne & Baker need no longer worry about screen credit or having their stories mussed up by somebody else. They are now bosses of their own producing company, The Play's The Thing Productions. Unlike a similar producing venture attempted by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur five years ago, T. P. T. P. will release four pictures through RKO* next year. The four, picked by Towne for their story value: The Swiss Family Robinson (published in 1813), James Fenimore Cooper's The Deer slayer (1841), Tom Brown's School Days (1857) and Alfred Batson's contemporary African...
...School for Husbands" is one of those witty, urbane, and inconsequential comedies that the English do so well. With a story that might have come out of the "Decameron", and a capable cast headed by Rex Harrison, Director Swanson has blended a screen cocktail that is pleasantly aphrodisiacal (in a nice way, of course...
With a combination of George Bernard Shaw and Broadway's leading exponents of free love romping across the screen at the University Theatre, the current bill is an especially gay affair. It's a rare and happy treat to find two such grade A pictures as "Yes, My Darling Daughter" and "Pygmalion" on the same showing...