Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government's National War Finance Committee, blushing with embarrassment, suddenly withdrew from circulation a poster with which it had been plugging Victory Bond sales. On a facsimile of a bond, a grudging artist had squiggled in minuscule script: "The Government of the Dominion of Canada [two illegible words] have gone too far to be of any good use [ten illegible words...
Tone of a Sigh. Like most script writers, Author Morse is virtually unknown to the mass of radio listeners. Morse might pass for a professor. Spectacles cover his squinty eyes; he walks with a stoop. He is a painfully shy man who habitually secretes himself in out-of-the-way corners in restaurants. He writes-in a dingy little Hollywood cubicle-in rigid seclusion. By 6:30 in the morning Morse is locked in his office, crouched over his typewriter, and hoping for an idea...
...that he forgets the names of his real-life relatives and friends. This absorption has affected Morse's attitude toward his cast. There are no understudies for the Barbours and their in-laws. If one of the actors falls ill, Morse simply writes his part out of the script...
...differences between Gershwin's terrestrial and cinematic lives are many, and in every instance Gershwin managed it better when he was alive than the script writers have done it now. For instance, Gershwin never had any spectacular loves. In an attempt at rectifying this, he has been provided with Joan Leslie and Alexis Smith, and has one or the other hounding him at every turn...
...English countryside with a stylish wife (Constance Cummings) and is badgered by the unladylike ghost of his first wife (Kay Hammond). Producer Coward and Director David Lean have done little more than photograph Author Coward's play. In focusing the main attention on the brightly brittle script, they have overlooked a rule which Hollywood rarely forgets: to hold their customers, cameras have to keep on the go. Result: Blithe Spirit is surfeited with dialogue, now & again drowses slightly...