Word: dalton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...REMARKABLE ANDREW - Dalton Trumbo-Lipplncoff...
...Worth Saving is a spiteful, wretchedly written tract by great, aging Theodore Dreiser (The Titan, An American Tragedy), who lives in Hollywood, lectures to California's women's clubs. The Remarkable Andrew might well be Dreiser's tract scripted into a novel by its author, Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo...
...Dalton Trumbo is one of the leaders of Hollywood's socially-conscious set. His 1939 novel, Johnny Got His Gun, depicted the mind of a soldier who survived Flanders without legs, arms, sight, hearing, even without a face. It was as sharp as bloodied barbed wire, retchsome as the smell of gas gangrene, it was a gruesome refutation of Patrick Henry's naïve views...
...Line in recent years. Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, John Marshall and Jesse James are also cast for bit parts in Trumbo's production. If the devil can quote Scripture, surely an irritated screenwriter can dip into The Federalist. A chapter of The Remarkable Andrew is devoted to the remarkable Dalton's attempt to outwit charges of Communism and pacifism with tedious parodies of Red-baiting...
...continued to be smart by putting its leading social thinker, Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun), to work on the script, later hiring witty, pink-cheeked Donald Ogden Stewart to furnish additional dialogue. This battery developed a smooth, efficient screen play from Morley's novel, preserving every pound of his pathos and adding a few ounces more of their own. They open with Kitty accepting the proposal of solid, reliable Dr. Mark Eisen (James Craig). As Kitty is packing for the elopement, they bring in Wyn Strafford VI (Dennis Morgan), Kitty's socialite ex-husband from Philadelphia...