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...stenographer. He got the job because a film he and his classmate Robert Young had made in college was mentioned in Life magazine. Fifteen years later the same pair hunted up 48 investors and made, practically by themselves, the film which represented the U.S. at Venice. They wrote the script of Nothing But A Man together; Roemer directed it, and Young photographed...
...grew up in Germany, Roemer speaks highly articulate American. He perfected it by writing a trunkful of plays "to acquire an ear." The modesty and straightforwardness which inspired that venture show up again and again as he describes his pilgrimage through the film industry: "I botched my first script and lost my job as a writer... I was lucky enough to get a job in deRochement's cutting room... I wrote five more scripts, none of them commercially robust enough..." Roemer doesn't apologize for his failures any more than he discounts the force of ambition--"I never realized until...
Orphan Annie's creator, Harold Gray, was unbothered: "I'm not crusading. I'm doing a script. I know some editors are writing editorials saying it couldn't happen in their states. But it can be done. The main thing is that I had to get Daddy Warbucks into a jam. This is a believable...
...Stevens (Shane, The Diary of Anne Frank), lugging along blueprints for this unwieldy magnum opus on the life of Christ, a work begun some five years and $20 million ago under benign auspices. "In creative association" with Poet Carl Sandburg, Stevens and Co-Author James Lee Barrett begat a script based loosely on Fulton Oursler's bestseller, on the Old and New Testament, and on other writings ancient and modern. His goal, Stevens proclaimed, was to create a definitive biography, "a Biblical classic that has vigor in ideas-with no souped-up spectacles, no sword fights, no bacchanalian orgies...
...dissenting southerners have a point. Indians speak 14 major tongues and 831 dialects; the only truly common language among educated Indians is English. Hindi script is an almost insurmountable obstacle for southern Indians; it is made up of a series of curves, lines, and floating vowels, arranged above a horizontal line, as against the intricate, graceful loops and curves of Tamil. For instance, the words "India and America" are written thus in Hindi...