Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first with himself, then with other network brains, finally with the writer. After weeks of interviewing ("I wanted someone who knew the inner workings of the Communist Party-I didn't want him to write from textbooks"), Saudek chose 34-year-old Morton Wishengrad to do the script. Wishengrad is a radio writer who also happened to be an anti-Communist veteran of David Dubinsky's successful fight against the Commies in the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union...
...June 1, when work on the script had just begun, the show received a sizzling salute from the Daily Worker: "An inaccurate, slanderous, and distorted series...
...study of different kinds of courage under sharp melodramatic stress, this is a remarkably good screen play. But the script is far surpassed by the way Huston and his cameraman Karl Freund and the players get it on to film. Huston takes such expert, type-tired players as Bogart, Robinson, Barrymore, Trevor and Gomez, and gets such performances from them that they seem like new people. He draws a simple, sharply individualized performance out of Lauren Bacall. His gift for catching the realities of danger and violence is unique; Bogart's quietness and caution is a hundred times...
Hollywood laughed when it heard that this young upstart wanted to make pictures himself. His actor friend, Graves, had a terrific idea for a script-about a Bowery bruiser who adopts a baby. Hughes was impressed, laid out $50,000. This picture, Swell Hogan, was such an arrant turkey that it was never released. The wiseacres laughed louder...
...offered Waugh $150,000 for the film rights to Brideshead. It was a situation worthy of a Waugh novel. It is explained, according to Waugh, by the fact that none of the top studio brass had ever read the book. When Waugh demanded "full Molotov veto rights" over the script, the deal fell through...