Word: scripter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back Where I Come From, directed by Nicholas Ray, comes mostly from the prodigious memories of Singer Ives and Scripter Lomax. Ives can sing for hours on any subject-love, death, the open road. For one ballad alone, There Lived an Old Lord on the Northern Sea, he knows 50 stanzas. When Woody Guthrie, "Okie" balladeer, was on the program, he and Alan Lomax spent an evening singing and listing songs about animals. In six hours they listed over 200. They stopped only because the neighbors were complaining...
...numerous. (What the great public calls jazz is mere popular music. ) The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street is irreverent in both directions. Announcer Gene Hamilton ("Dr. Gino"), who ordinarily handles such programs as the NBC Symphony and the Firestone hour, solemnly voices puns, non sequiturs (written by Scripter Welbourn Kelley), identifies a composition as "Opus 33, First Door to the Left," or "a small-fry rhapsody with no particular point," or "a slightly undernourished D Minor." Vice presidents seem to fascinate the Society. Once Dr. Gino began: "And as we look at our program (printed on the back...
...sold Hal Wallis the novel, he looked like the logical producer. Equally inevitable seemed the choice of Casey Robinson, who scripted such Bette Davis successes as Dark Victory and The Old Maid, to turn the 600 crowded Field pages into a workable screen treatment. So Producer Lewis and Scripter Robinson holed up for five days in Phoenix, Ariz., emerged with a 90-page synopsis, which Scripter Robinson expanded into a 225-page script-too long for the most ambitious of photoplays...
...into such hysterics she had to be led out. On hand was Producer Zanuck's assistant, Poloist Aidan Roark. But he was blacked out by the burlier presence of the picture's villain, enormously popular colored Cinemactor Maceo B. Sheffield. Also present was Producer Friedrich's Scripter Dana Burnett. The surges of surflike laughter told both scouts that the canny Parson Friedrich had scored again...
...himself as a man "with two arms, two eyes, two ears and an appetite like anyone else." He is not like anyone else. Cinemacting is only his favorite role. He has also been: 1) a newspaperman; 2) a vaudevillian; 3) a stage actor; 4) a stage director; 5) a scripter...