Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colman, is much better than her material, but Actor Price, wallowing in an outrageously flamboyant role, outhams Orson Welles. For a while, radio's Quizmaster Art (People Are Funny) Linkletter, a toothy paragon of commercial insincerity, seems an inspired choice for an obnoxious giveaway M.C. But then the script switches about and tries to palm him off as a sympathetic character. Having blunted its point throughout, the picture finally tosses it away altogether by having Colman sell out to Price in a deal that gives him a quiz program...
...sample script was written last year when the University was discussing the project with Ivy Films. A number of other Universities, including Princeton, have made films to illustrate their undergraduate life...
...days," said Secretary of State Dean Acheson last week, "a man who held my office used to write out, in beautiful script, instructions to a Minister . . . and those instructions were put on a sailing ship and they took weeks to cross the ocean. And the American Minister who received them put on his black knee breeches and he walked to the palace or the foreign office and he read what his Secretary of State had written, and that was the United States speaking...
...wistfully over their early triumphs. But a famous moviemaker in the same plight can simply dig out an old success and do it all over again. Producer-Director Frank Capra has done just that in this remake of his 1934 hit, Broadway Bill. With basically the same Robert Riskin script, at least seven character actors playing their original roles and Capra repeating his crafty directorial touches, the new movie is as beautifully turned a piece of hokum...
...Playwrights Groups of Harvard and Radcliffe yesterday opened a contest for the best original script written by an undergraduate of either college...