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...last night's radio program is usually dead as a duck by morning, and most radio programs live for just such transitory glory. But every now and again somebody stages a program that seems worth "clipping out." For would-be radio clippers, a young radioman named Max Wylie, script director at CBS, last week published a 576-page book, Best Broadcasts of 1938-39,* containing reprints or samples of 32 "bests" in as many fields of radio endeavor. To pick his bests, Wylie spent 16 months reading 6,000 scripts, squawked in his preface that...
...Fund's everyday work will go on-providing bread, hope and Front for faded glamor girls, leading men gone paunchy, directors gone seedy, ailing script girls...
...Hollywood in the spring of 1937. With Selznick's famed marked copy of Gone With the Wind as a starter, Selznick, Howard and George Cukor (to supply the director's angle) spent twelve hours of a series of hot summer days, hammering out G With the W Script No. i. When finished, it contained 30,000 words, would have required five and a half hours to run if it ever had been shot. It never was. They made another. Then Selznick made another. In the next year Jo Swerling, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, John Van Druten...
...Women. On Jan. 26, 1939, Cukor began directing with a very incomplete script. Trouble started at once. Selznick was not satisfied with the results which Cukor, a specialist in intimate scenes, especially with women, was getting. Selznick felt that Cukor did not get the "big feel" of Gone With the Wind and worked too slowly...
Meantime there was interminable dissatisfaction with the script. Hours were wasted while it was written on the set. Fleming confessed to a friend in the cast that at one point he thought of driving his car off a cliff he was passing, and finally went to bed for a week while M.G.M. Director Sam Wood (Good-Eye, Mr. Chips') carried...