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...role. On the set he does not laugh or tell stories or play mumblety-peg, as other actors do to while away the intervals of their work. He sits apart brooding. Before taking a role he studies all the research which the writers used in preparing the script. Once he went to a Warner Brothers producer and complained: "I don't understand this role." "I thought we went over it pretty carefully," said the producer. "I know," replied Muni, "I understand the character all right. But I have no idea about his ancestors...
...only natural, but the picture tries to make the situation highly dramatic. Does Parnell betray Ireland or Ireland Parnell? That is the question. The result is a hopelessly wishy-washy conflict between mass admiration and the illegal love of a party champion. With both sides in a deadlock, the script solves its problems by killing off Mr. Gable that Ireland may profit from his plight...
...must purchase the film rights at a price set by the author and a group of negotiators, or else let it-be sold in the open market. This clause prevents the film producer from taking unlimited advantage of his own rebate and from shutting out competitive bidding on the script from other film companies...
Cinema-Arts' editor is Paul Husserl, onetime script editor for the cine-MARCH OF TIME. Following the current vogue, Editor Husserl packed his first issue with many more pictures than paragraphs, hired four artists, most notably Jaro Fabry, to illuminate what interstices were left between photographs and text. Best shots: a full page of Henry Armetta titled "Portrait of Expostulation " and "Double Feature," a photograph of a Manhattan theatre marquee advertising Romeo & Juliet and Mama Steps...
Woman Chases Man (United Artists). Screenwriters Samuel & Bella Spewack (Boy Meets Girl) wrote a script and, after reading it, begged Producer Goldwyn to take their names off it, returned the money he had paid them. Director William Wyler, who had been given a vacation with all expenses paid, returned to Goldwyn $25,000 advanced to him in salary and expense money to be let off directing it. Miriam Hopkins offered to pay anything in reason not to star in it, at length agreed to give in and work if Goldwyn got Gregory LaCava to direct. Goldwyn got LaCava, but after...