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Result was a scenario "unconsciously written" in the very form Hollywood scripters use for an "original screen treatment." Joanne called her script Joan of the Ark. It tells how an old lady (Aunt Sis) finds a baby afloat in a box during a flood, rescues it and brings it up. Cut to the child, a little girl, age 14, name Joan...
Seventeen (Paramount). In the 24 years since young Jack Pickford played Willie Baxter in the silent screen version of Seventeen, cinemaddicts forgot how much charm there is in that classic of calf love on Main Street. Booth Tarkington's novel is scarcely a generation old, but the folkways Seventeen describes, the gawky naturalness of most of its young people, the tolerant humor and humanity with which its adults are able to straighten out youth's scrapes, make it seem like something from the far past. Members of the American Youth Congress may not like it. But if they...
Frank Capra, famous Hollywood producer and director, is sending a representative to the East to give screen tests in an attempt to find "an average American" for the impending screen play, "The Life of John Doe," it was announced last night. Among other places the tests will be given at Harvard...
Each year these studios give a six months course in the adaption of short stories, plays, and novels, to the screen. The ranking men are given contracts immediately...
Bowie would not say whether he will accept Miss Sheridan's invitation, but admitted that he would probably screen well. A curly-harried pleasant lad, Bowie is interested in crooning and has also dabbled in musical comedy...