Word: binyon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Invitation to Happiness, by the six-year-old writer-director combination of Claude Binyon and Wesley Ruggles, is not exactly up Cinemactress Dunne's gay alley, but it is a setup for headstrong Cinemactor MacMurray, a field day for Character Actors William Collier Sr. and Charles Ruggles, Wesley's brother...
...playwrights get a break, but screenwriters are under a big bushel. Most screenwriters with big names made them elsewhere, like Ben Hecht, Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker. Some, like Grover Jones and Frances Marion, have big names in Hollywood that mean little to outsiders. Others, like Wesley Ruggles' Claude Binyon or Frank Capra's Robert Riskin, won fame as co-members of celebrated director-writer teams. Still others, like Darryl Zanuck and Alfred Hitchcock, got their glory in bigger jobs. As compensation for their comparative obscurity, screen authors work more steadily than playwrights and generally make more money. Last...
True Confession (Paramount) is the latest effort of an expert team of light comedy artisans, Director Wesley Ruggles and Screenwriter Claude Binyon. It is also a new comic high for Carole Lombard who-with Nothing Sacred, in which she is co-starred with Fredric March, released last month and still playing the first-run houses-is in the envied position of competing with herself at U. S. box offices...
...amusing story by Helen Meinardi on which I Met Him in Paris is based, the Swiss interlude was a minor incident. Adroitly magnified in Claude Binyon's adaptation, it covers the subject of playing in the snow as thoroughly as an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, and to much better effect as entertainment. For the huge white panels of snow-covered mountains against which the Swiss sequences in the story are outlined by the camera, Director Wesley Ruggles took his whole cast and crew of 250 not to the Alps but to Sun Valley. Idaho. There, in a fold...
...year. The professorship was established in 1925 under a $200,000 gift by the late Charles Chauncey Stillman '98, and is an annual appointment to a man "of high distinction and international reputation." Previous holders of the chair have been Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot '10, Gilbert Murray, Lawrence Binyon, and others, the present holder is Johnny A. E. Roosval, professor of the History of Art at the University of Stockholm...