Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lamar Trotti, for his script of the movie, Cheaper by the Dozen, the sentimental story (as in the bestselling book) of a Protestant family of twelve children...
...Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett for their cinema script of Father of the Bride, also a domestic comedy made from a bestseller...
...About Eve, Anne Baxter plays an ambitious, ruthless young actress who reaches stardom by knifing various associates, including an aging star played by Bette Davis. Last week, 27-year-old Anne Baxter might almost have been still rehearsing her old script. As the balloting for the Academy Awards was about to start, Anne phoned Eve's Producer Darryl Zanuck, asked his backing in going after the Best Actress Award instead of the lesser and easier-to-get Supporting Actress Award. Said Zanuck, who has Anne, but not Bette Davis, under contract: "Her argument was that...
...self-sacrifice. She is a chic parole officer with full authority over the pretty parolee (Jane Greer) who is beating her time with Dennis O'Keefe. Lizabeth's determined nobility, especially when given a legitimate chance to send Jane back to prison, is something that neither the script nor Actress Scott can make believable. Moviegoers may take some comfort in Actress Greer's able performance as a bitter, man-hungry jailbird with a craving for respectability...
...treated in Marlene Dietrich's 1939 Destry Rides Again and Mae Westerns of the '30s, the come-hither approach proved a welcome change from they-went-thataway. Frenchie does not make the grade. The script's attempts to laugh at sex come down to smirks and leers, and Actress Winters plays a poor man's Mae West with little more authority than a schoolgirl flouncing through the attic in mother's old clothes...