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Page One. His first wife had divorced him; he married his brother David's widow. In the three years since the hearings, Ring has been fired by his studio, and has had only one job-a script for a picture made in Switzerland. His wife earned money as a radio actress and by playing bit parts in the movies. Like the other Hollywood Ten, Ring seemed to enjoy his martyrdom. "They are annoyed if they don't make Page One of the New York Times every day," said a friend. In the Communist press, they were heroes...
...York, NBC and its parent company, Radio Corp. of America, offered the full $200,000 backing for the forthcoming Broadway musical Call Me Madam. In addition to profits, RCA would get the record rights to the Irving Berlin music and NBC hopes to sew up telecast rights to the script...
Strikingly photographed in black & white, the film is directed with an eye to realistic detail, an ear for the script's frequently natural dialogue and a knack for building suspense. It also has some good performances by Dan Duryea, John McIntire and Millard Mitchell, as well as Actors Stewart and McNally. Heroine Shelley Winters, who seems lost in all the uproar, might as well have been lost in the script...
...down the jumble of words and translate them into a tight, coherent account that will reach the participants' desks the next morning so that they will know precisely what the boss said. Zanuck is annoyed if a new writer puts some of his ad-libbed dialogue into the script. He thinks in pictorial terms, does not fancy himself as a dialogue writer, intends his ad-libbing only as a guide...
...with the Dodgers' Montreal farm team. Rickey's terms: Robinson must stay above reproach while proving himself as a hitter, fielder and base runner; he must turn the other cheek to the inevitable abuse of the crowds, the rival teams and his own teammates. A poorly written script suggests but hardly exploits the dramatic conflicts and personal anguish of Robinson's hard-won success, first with Montreal and then with the Dodgers. Its arguments for tolerance and fair play, as spoken flourishingly by Actor Watson, are overwrought and sometimes speciously reasoned. Its footage is cluttered with sports...