Word: scripts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Wild West. "Destry Rides Again," her latest vehicle, presents her in a rough and tumble burlesque of the dime quickies of the twenties. Dietrich, it will be generally conceded, has certain natural qualifications for the job of combination Mac West and Alice Faye: Hollywood has provided a script in the right mood; and the result is a motion picture capable of popularizing anything in a dress (Shirley Temple and the Dionne Quintuplets perhaps excepted...
...gutty part which other actresses shun, but in which Miss Davis seems to revel. But her dashing Essex, Errol Flynn, moons through his scenes like a self-conscious school boy. And as if this were not enough of an indignity, the adapters of the play have handed her a script which has been completely stripped of its poetic beauty. It seems a pity that the screen did not have the daring to use Mr. Anderson's blank verse which was so effective when the play ran on Broadway a few years ago. This was almost a fine picture rather than...
...last night's radio program is usually dead as a duck by morning, and most radio programs live for just such transitory glory. But every now and again somebody stages a program that seems worth "clipping out." For would-be radio clippers, a young radioman named Max Wylie, script director at CBS, last week published a 576-page book, Best Broadcasts of 1938-39,* containing reprints or samples of 32 "bests" in as many fields of radio endeavor. To pick his bests, Wylie spent 16 months reading 6,000 scripts, squawked in his preface that...
...Fund's everyday work will go on-providing bread, hope and Front for faded glamor girls, leading men gone paunchy, directors gone seedy, ailing script girls...