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...declares : "Your true New York mug doesn't say toity-toid or erl. He's about halfway between oyster and erster." Gardner's in dignities are delivered with a kazoo-voiced good nature which keeps everybody happy, including his victims. Three writers turn out the original script, but the final version is practically all Gardner ("The boys do a rough draft and I tear it down"). The result is grade-A American foolery...
...Revised Script Successful...
Leatrice Joy Gilbert, 18-year-old daughter of John ("Great Lover") Gilbert, leafed through her first movie script with her mother, onetime Cinemactress Leatrice Joy. Tall, brunette Leatrice (Mrs. Francis Carney since her freshman year at Stanford) said she would go on with her poetry: "It'll give me something to fall back on if acting peters...
...where Sammy comes into this, we still don't know . . . why did he marry Grace. . . . Was it love . . . or what?" Princeton will eventually get the answer. But Mrs. Berg's agent posed a special problem for the university to solve. Mrs. Berg has written 3,640 scripts (about six million words) for The Goldbergs. They are mimeographed, therefore bulky. Wrote her agent to Princeton: "If we continue to send you daily scripts the archives will overflow. Perhaps one representative script per week will serve...
Whenever he incorporates one of their misadventures in a script he is likely to find an itemized bill by his bedside for "plagerism." It is strictly understood at the Goldsmiths' that The Aldrich Family is never to be mentioned at meals...