Word: scripted
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...Government's National War Finance Committee, blushing with embarrassment, suddenly withdrew from circulation a poster with which it had been plugging Victory Bond sales. On a facsimile of a bond, a grudging artist had squiggled in minuscule script: "The Government of the Dominion of Canada [two illegible words] have gone too far to be of any good use [ten illegible words...
...differences between Gershwin's terrestrial and cinematic lives are many, and in every instance Gershwin managed it better when he was alive than the script writers have done it now. For instance, Gershwin never had any spectacular loves. In an attempt at rectifying this, he has been provided with Joan Leslie and Alexis Smith, and has one or the other hounding him at every turn...
...English countryside with a stylish wife (Constance Cummings) and is badgered by the unladylike ghost of his first wife (Kay Hammond). Producer Coward and Director David Lean have done little more than photograph Author Coward's play. In focusing the main attention on the brightly brittle script, they have overlooked a rule which Hollywood rarely forgets: to hold their customers, cameras have to keep on the go. Result: Blithe Spirit is surfeited with dialogue, now & again drowses slightly...
...start, the script read true to form: Newhouser's arm lasted only an inning; Greenberg, pinch-hitting, hobbled to the plate and slapped into a rally-ending double play. But other Tigers supplied crushing ad libs...
...Orson Welles's Mercury Theater and radio's MARCH OF TIME, chic, redhaired, fortyish Miss Moorehead has perfect timing, can control her voice as expertly as a radio engineer can control sound. Before going on the air with Sorry, she never takes a peek at the script, feels it would unnerve her. She acts the part without an audience; during the half hour (which is almost a monologue) wears herself to a frazzle...