Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least she had something on. Granted, it was not much; a bit of fluff here and there. But compared to the buff that Carroll Baker, 32, wore for the first days of screening The Carpetbaggers, her two-piece boa was a positive shroud. By the script, Carroll-as Screen Queen Rita Marlowe-was supposed to cavort on the chandelier until it collapsed from extra weight. All those feathers, no doubt...
...picked from 750 applicants and a girl from Japan who spent 14 hours a day trying to learn how to pronounce the name of the show: except in French Canada, where it is called La Jardiniere, Romper Room is the name of the show no matter what language the script may be translated into, and Japan's Midori Namiki couldn't seem to keep herself from saying Lomper Loom...
Wives and Lovers is a triumph of script over plot. Working with a worn story line, Producer Hal Wallis has managed to make a movie so amusing that it almost needs subtitles to catch the lines that get away during the yaks...
...Hurrah! Austro-Hungarian soldiers, oddly enough, took part in the American Civil War, and the show centers around a Union soldier and the daughter of a Hungarian officer, garrisoned in St. Louis in 1861 (spring). Another original musical is A Girl to Remember, starring Carol Burnett as a Hollywood script girl in the '30s, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green...
...Loeb Experimental production, though, while not offering anything approaching incisive parody, provides enough comic moments to keep the audience from worrying too seriously about the script's literary pretensions...