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That night, at least 90,000 Angelenos came to the Coliseum to hear & see. Republicans Cecil B. de Mille and David O. Selznick produced the two-hour show, on a script written for split-second timing. Giant spotlights stabbed into the sky to form a giant "V"; the platform backdrop was a 40-foot flag. The Coliseum's playing field, a cool green under the thousands of baby spots, swarmed with performing Indians and cowboys; Actor Leo Carrillo rode energetically back & forth on a white horse, banging his six-shooters into the air. And all the time Radio Announcer...
Impossible to Describe. The De Mille script read: "At 7:44 Mr. de Mille cues Governor Dewey's entrance from tunnel...
From this tunnel, while the bands played, the crowd cheered, cowbells rattled in the upper tiers, the Deweys appeared, in a cream-colored touring car, flanked by eight motorcycle cops. Said the script: "After Governor Dewey enters, Von Zell brings many stars to the microphone to describe the scene during the time the cars are driving around the track. After one minute of cheering, dial the mikes down so that the continued cheering becomes a background for the stars speaking...
With an adeptness rivaling that of Preston Sturges, script-writer Nunnally Johnson has teamed Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright in a fast-moving comedy of briedgrooms-almost-to-be and little-babies-by-former-wives, teeming itself, with mysterious notes from Chicago Maternity Hospitals and half-hour engagements to hotel chamber maids...
...write and produce two pictures a year for International. Like Gary Cooper, also under exclusive contract as actor-producer, he will get 49% of the profits from every picture he produces. At the moment he has taken ten weeks off on a private deal to write a script which Cooper will produce and act in-again for International. For this side order he is getting a flat...