Word: scriptful
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...Lindsay & Crouse are to have editorial jurisdiction over the movie, especially in matters of "good taste," and can stop any script they dislike from being filmed...
Canny, crack-voiced Ezra Stone, 24, the script's top drawing card, started as Henry Aldrich in the stage play, What a Life, from which the radio serial was concocted. The script was a summer fillin, but Ezra's adolescent croaks and bleats so delighted radio listeners that The Aldrich Family emerged in the fall of 1939 as a full-fledged weekly show, soon had an audience of millions...
Hollywood's best bet on why Damon Runyon became a producer is that he glumly watched Mark Hellinger move up from script writing to producing, swore that he could do anything Hellinger could do and do it better. At first he so loathed California that his wife bet him a dozen of his famed cacophonous Charvet ties that he wouldn't last four weeks. He stuck it out five months at RKO, signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox, and has since become, in most respects, an acclimated if eccentric Hollywoodsman...
...three day goings-on in Room 318 of the Senate Office Building sounded like a radio script. There was even a flurry of anger and a flash of fists when the government's Robert M. Hunter remarked on the last weary day that of six Standard witnesses he would take the word of only one. Standard's vice president Robert T. Haslam (one of the doubted) personally objected, offered to meet Mr. Hunter "outside...
...must have been an awful lot of fun writing the script for "Crossroads." It must have been an awful lot of fun directing it, and acting in it, too. For from start to finish it is obvious that no one went out of his way to be consistent or convincing. And a production that allows the writer's imagination to ramble without restraint, and lets the director fool around with all manner of disconnected dramatic scenes, and that gives William Powell and Hedy Lamar a chance to clinch at random, and everyone a chance to act at will could hardly...