Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Although the plot is wearing, the acting is not. With one possible exception, the cast makes the most of the script. The wife, Jeanne Moreau, considering her scanty dialogue, performs remarkably well. Her lover, Jean-Marc Bory, though hampered by the false assumption that he is Marlon Brando, turns in a credible performance, and the heroine's girl friend, played by Judith Magre, is a brilliant caricature of the fashionable Parisienne...
...show, Sweet Love Remember'd, Maggie Sullavan was still sitting out the waiting period which would determine the operation's permanent success. Her plans for the future, insists Dr. Lempert, were not those of a woman bent on suicide. The very fact that she died with a script of Sweet Love Remember'd beside her suggests, says he, that she was still fighting against her deafness. "She was probably trying to memorize lines of the other characters so she wouldn't be caught missing...
Another change in the script was suggested by Patient Bourke-White's own surgeon, who demonstrated that even a dear and glorious physician may behave curiously under TV's hypnotic eye. For the use of his name, Dr. Cooper wanted the right of script approval. (Executive Producer Robert Alan Aurthur changed the doctor's name to "Olson," avoided the issue.) Also the doctor's representatives suggested that his part be expanded, and that Marlon Brando ought to play it. Producer-Director Alex March, who gave the job to an actor named Martin Rudy, observed that "Brando...
...patient's head before a brain operation. Naturally, the TV Bourke-White could not say, "I'll be glad to have my head shaved," or "This is a great year for wigs-Marlene Dietrich has ten of them," and both lines were exxed out of the script. The producers even had to fight for the dramatically climactic operation scene, since the patient would have to be bald (Actress Wright wore a rubber cap to create the bald effect...
...learns that b sounds like buh-for-bird and sees the letter imposed on a picture of a bird. Much see-and-say repetition is followed by c imposed on a cup, d on a dish, f on a fish. Then come vowels, easy stories and eventually writing in script...