Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With this bit of dialogue, Poet Kenneth Koch begins a beatnik playlet, which was produced off Broadway last March, on how the American Revolution was won. Last week, posted in large letters on one wall of Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery, the script served to accompany one of the nuttier art exhibitions of the season. Throughout the gallery stand nearly life-size wooden cutouts of Washington and his horse, Washington and the cherry tree, Washington crossing the Delaware...
...must to all movie stars, the nude scene came to Marilyn Monroe. That long-ago calendar shot when she was 17 was almost forgotten, and MM hardly needed the publicity. But it was really in the script of Something's Got to Give, and perfectionist Director George Cukor said no to the flesh-colored "nude suit" Marilyn wanted to wear. Cukor cleared the set of "all males not actually involved in the production," admonished electricians to "turn around," and Marilyn slipped into the pool like Botticelli's Venus, while cameras whirred. As she paddled around, the chief electrician...
...Producer Ely Landau, and he wanted her to star in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. Demanded Hepburn: "Who's doing the script?" Replied Landau: "O'Neill." There was a long pause as the full significance of the answer sank in. Then Kate cried: "Marvelous!" and agreed to sign...
Journey had been bid for by most major studios (with offers as high as $500,000 for the script alone), but Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, widow of the playwright, guarded her husband's works diligently. She was so impressed by the Landau-Lumet production of The Iceman Cometh on television's Play of the Week series that she entrusted to Landau the TV-movie rights to a sizable O'Neill portfolio: all of the plays that have reverted to her control. Landau hopes soon to film more O'Neill, with top casts and directors...
Fred MacMurray is a great pampered hound of a father with a sure comic touch despite the undistinguished script. And each departure and arrival, of course, require establishing shots, providing the outstanding footage in the picture. There is some splendid color photography of the Statue of Liberty, for example, and stunning views of the S.S. United States...