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...would have required five and a half hours to run if it ever had been shot. It never was. They made another. Then Selznick made another. In the next year Jo Swerling, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, John Van Druten, Michael Foster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winston Miller, John Balderston, Edwin Justus Mayer all had at least a little finger in the scenario. But next to Sidney Howard's work, the bulk of the scripting, as David Selznick admits, was done by David Selznick. He is still very touchy because a shooting script was not ready even...
...JOHN L. BALDERSTON Beverly Hills, Calif...
...JOHN L. BALDERSTON...
...Prisoner of Zenda has swashbuckled over the stages of the English-speaking world. In 1922 Rex Ingram produced a silent cinema version. Last week Producer David Selznick gave this colorful hardy perennial the finest treatment it has ever had. Slicked up by Screenwriters Wells Root and John L. Balderston, well-cast, well-acted and beautifully staged, The Prisoner of Zenda will hardly hearten those who want Hollywood to skate out where the ice is thinner (see p. 33) but will certainly give cinemaddicts a rare good show for their money...
Beloved Enemy (Samuel Goldwyn) is billed as a "legend inspired by fact." The fact is the Irish rebellion of 1921. The legend, as presented by Writers John Balderston, William Meloney & Rose Franken, should certainly raise the eyebrows of students of recent Irish history. As the hero of the ''trouble," it presents a romantic young patriot named Dennis Riordan (Brian Aherne). It derives the Irish Free State's Constitution from a few words that pass between him and his English inamorata. Lady Helen Drummond (Merle Oberon...