Word: script
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to have it published on his own terms: "There will be no movie, no radio broadcasts, no condensations, no serializations, and no book clubs . . . Anybody who wants this book will have to buy it from a book store." Calming down a bit, in an interview with Script Magazine, he added: "I'm just an irascible old man who has written a book and wants it to stay a book...
Charles (The Lost Weekend) Jackson, bestselling scratcher of the seamy side, was called to Hollywood to write the movie script for Feodor Dostoevsky's The Eternal Husband...
Lloyd C. Douglas' continuous bestseller, The Robe (about early Christians in ancient Rome), was again announced for production; Maxwell Anderson would write the script; Gregory Peck would surely play the lead. In London, Producer Anthony Havelock-Allan (Great Expectations') thought of filming the life of St. Paul. Both Greta Garbo and Lana Turner were reportedly under serious consideration for Madame Bovary...
...Televiewers last week got a look at a radio program in action, We the People. It looked worse than it sounded. A guest named Evil-Eye Finkle made evil eyes at the camera; Mrs. Spencer Tracy fastened her eyes to the script; Fred Allen mostly looked glum; Nat ("King") Cole sang Nature Boy and Composer Eden Ahbez showed his curls. Master of Ceremonies Dwight Weist went his own way, all but ignoring the prying eye of the telecamera...
...Rachmilovich arrived in the U.S. eight years ago, he was almost broke. For a while, he worked in a Los Angeles gas station. In his spare time he took over (without pay) the baton of a nameless group of Hollywood movie musicians who were so bored with stop & go script music that they banded together to play, once a week, some piece of music all the way through...