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Part of the overall effect of intelligence was undoubtedly achieved by restrained script-writers; much of it is due to the fact that an entertainer's life lends itself better to movies than does a composer's. Both "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (Cohan was primarily an entertainer) and now "The Jolson Story" illustrate the point. Where composers are just composers, and neither necessarily nor usually dramatic personalities, entertainers can entertain in biography as well as in person, and their lives generally have something public and spectacular about them...
British Satirist Evelyn Waugh, who went to Hollywood on an eiderdown dream mission, departed for home after seven weeks of good living. By contract, M-G-M had maintained him in luxurious style while they talked about filming his Brideshead Revisited. But the censors wanted to change a script that Waugh liked. So it was no go. He didn't want changes. He really wasn't "keen" now to sell the book to any studio, said...
...Jolson is currently the most-hitched-to star in radio. He recently upped Bing Crosby's Hooper 4.9 points, boosted Eddie Cantor's a full 5. Offered a show of his own, Jolson declined: he can make too much money guesting-with no worries over script and sponsor. At week's end, Jolson signed for ten appearances on the Crosby show next fall-$50,000 guaranteed...
Woven into the plot are 17 songs by Courtney Crandall '46 and John Knowles '47, with all lyrics contributed by student director William Scudder '48. The Pudding chorus is under the direction of former ETO theater director Charles Conkling. Morthner Marshall, another service show veteran, directs the script and Donald Finlayson and Miss Pat Havens are in charge of scenery and costuming, respectively...
...John Wayne disposes of four men during the credit background and plays a human being for the rest of the picture. The principals are thus left free to develop an interesting and often humorous plot. Dealing with the life of a wounded badman recuperating in a Quaker family, the script is both clever and tasteful. The writers manage to convey the beliefs of that seet with all the necessary finesse and still draw the comedy of ardent pacifists playing hosts to a befuddled rustler. While the action follows through to the hoped-for conclusion, the climax happily avoids time-worn...