Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lupe Velez, tamale-tempered cinemactress, breezed into Manhattan all set to star in a forthcoming Broadway musical, Glad to See You, promptly saw that "the script did not suit my personality." New York Post. Columnist Earl Wilson, thought it might be her temperament, got told off by volcanic Miss Velez : "Tamparamant ! I hate people with Tamparamant...
That night, at least 90,000 Angelenos came to the Coliseum to hear & see. Republicans Cecil B. de Mille and David O. Selznick produced the two-hour show, on a script written for split-second timing. Giant spotlights stabbed into the sky to form a giant "V"; the platform backdrop was a 40-foot flag. The Coliseum's playing field, a cool green under the thousands of baby spots, swarmed with performing Indians and cowboys; Actor Leo Carrillo rode energetically back & forth on a white horse, banging his six-shooters into the air. And all the time Radio Announcer...
Impossible to Describe. The De Mille script read: "At 7:44 Mr. de Mille cues Governor Dewey's entrance from tunnel...
From this tunnel, while the bands played, the crowd cheered, cowbells rattled in the upper tiers, the Deweys appeared, in a cream-colored touring car, flanked by eight motorcycle cops. Said the script: "After Governor Dewey enters, Von Zell brings many stars to the microphone to describe the scene during the time the cars are driving around the track. After one minute of cheering, dial the mikes down so that the continued cheering becomes a background for the stars speaking...
...Mille script read: "8:30, completion of speech. Two minutes of cheering, led by young Republicans; 8:32, band plays until 8:45." But the cheering lasted less than a minute, and the radio program was quickly switched...