Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crass Coincidence. Back in his homeland, Indio shot up rapidly in Mexican movies, was soon a leading actor. From a friendly, peripatetic U.S. script writer, with whom he became buddies, Indio learned story technique. In time he became the country's leading director, turned out the enormously successful films that Dolores del Rio made in Mexico after leaving Hollywood. For three years, Indio and Dolores were always seen together. Now they are only socially polite...
...honor, he even had the name of the street he has built on changed to "La Calzada de la Duke Olivia" (The Street of the Sweet Olivia). That he had never seen Olivia only heightened the poignancy of the romantic situation. But in August his old U.S. script-writing buddy, Marcus Goodrich, married Emilio's dream girl, whose name is Olivia de Havilland...
...growth in "Years Ago." For a season or two flop after flop made its development seem stunted. But the word finally went out that it isn't enough for a show's action to take place around the turn of the century; it's got to have a good script, too. And that's what Ruth Gordon's autobiographical play features for most of two acts, while the faults late in the play should be easy to iron out early...
...radio listeners did not hear this version. Reason: after rehearsal NBC censors slashed Allen's script. Deleted by the thin-skinned network: all mention of hucksters, jerks, "old P.U.," etc. At the last minute, Allen had to write out some of his best lines to make his lyrics rhyme...
...Bright Day is a disenchanted view of 1946-style life, and a lament for the good old days when life struck a harmonious balance between work and play. Hero Gregory Dawson is a successful movie-script writer of about Priestley's own age (55); he divides his time between feverishly churning out a perfumed movie story and feverishly recalling the days when rich Yorkshire wool merchants went home to play Schubert of an evening. By the time he has written finis to his tawdry script, Dawson has also decided to write finis to his tawdry career. Henceforth, with trade...