Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to the Farm. Pennsylvania's Leader was substituting for Harry Truman (who said he had been ordered by his doctor to withdraw from his scheduled appearance). But at times it seemed that Leader had merely picked up "Give-'Em-Hell Harry's" script...
...beauty of The Kentuckian is not in the raw yarn, but in the loving country touch with which it was homespun. The script, taken from The Gabriel Horn, a novel by Felix Holt, was put together by A. B. Guthrie Jr., who has published, in The Big Sky and The Way West, two excellent books on the winning of the West. By his skillful doing, the wheezy conventional apparatus of the Hollywood western-all the bang-bang and fistic shindy-is merged in the green world of quiet woods and early custom, like a shiny, store-bought backwoods still that...
...idea for the Stevenson script originated in the bouncy political organization of Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, whence came the suggestion that Stevenson, as a peg for taking off on the Eisenhower Administration, might recall the 1952 campaign day when both Adlai and Ike traveled to Kasson, Minn., to set forth their farm policies...
...California seashore resort, and when the lady starts pinching pennies. Jeff stops pinching her. He just picks up his muscles and walks out. That same night the lady dies. "I'm sorry," says Jeff, and waits a full 24 hours -whether out of respect or satiety, the script does not make clear-before he picks up another well-shaped pebble on the beach...
Married. Frank Lloyd, 66, two-time Academy Award-winning Hollywood director (for Divine Lady, 1928; and Cavalcade, 1932); and Virginia Kellogg, 47, script writer (Caged); both for the second time; aboard a yacht as it steamed under the Golden Gate Bridge...