Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more convincing, but not by much. They are scientists and a U.S. Air Force crew, quartered for a research project at the North Pole with all the comforts of home, including a comely, sweater-bulging secretary (Margaret Sheridan). Except for the Air Force captain (Kenneth Tobey), whom the script had fated for her, the men treat this cute tomato with vegetable-like indifference. They keep their minds on science, though not very scientifically, e.g., when the grounded saucer's radioactivity sets their Geiger counter sputtering, they walk calmly into the radioactive field...
...Forbidden Past (RKO Radio) is set in New Orleans during the gaslight era, when connoisseurs of showboat melodrama might have taken it seriously. The moss-hung script casts Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a fiery belle scheming to win back the Yankee doctor (Robert Mitchum) who has scorned her and married another...
...Delilah (TIME, Dec. 26, 1949), he smashed his enormous temple three times before he was satisfied that he had achieved just the right touch-and the box-office returns justified his little extravagance. For the big scene of The Greatest Show on Earth, now shooting, Producer DeMille's script ordered a train wreck with "a shattering impact of shattering steel and wood amid the crescendo of injured humans and screams of caged animals...
Kaye's performance and a slick script get new humor out of a farce formula that was old when Plautus (254-184 B.C.) was young: the identities of the impersonator and the impersonated become snarled up until neither the Frenchman's wife (Gene Tierney) nor the American's girl friend (Corinne Calvet) are quite sure which is which. The confusion leaves wife Tierney frantically trying to figure out whether she has been faithful to her husband, sends the dialogue into neatly charted pyramids of double-entendre...
Valentino's Producer Edward Small spent 13 years getting his movie ready. The project survived 18 versions of the script by some 40 writers, the death of Small's first "discovery" for the title role, the threat that two other producers might rush a Valentino movie...