Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illiterate Hollywood producer, an idling playwright who wrote a sock first play and can't get on with a second. And there is a shy, not very bright young fan-magazine writer who, by selling his soul in 10% slices to the agent, becomes a modern-day Faust...
...throw, the Faustling gets himself a fortune, wins the siren, judos her bruiser husband through a window, captures an Oscar, contrives a 1958 Pulitzer Prize script for the playwright. This unearned future honor brings the playwright to his senses; shouting "Excelsior " he first saves young Faust from Hell, then saves himself from Hollywood...
There is an entertaining idea in uniting a 20th-century Faust with 20th Century-Fox. And Will Success, at its best, produces fresher, funnier and coarser lines than anything in The Seven Year Itch. Playwright Axelrod offers sex on the rocks and Hollywood in the raw, coaxes a few new laughs out of agents and Oscars, contrives short vaudevilles on such Hollywood problems as how to treat Boy-Meets-Girl stories. Jayne Mansfield makes an amusing siren and Martin Gabel a particularly skillful agent...
...Pitch. Even where the product was not readily identifiable, salesmen were hard at work as dramatic show after dramatic show peddled the quintessential goodness of man in one well-contrived happy ending after another. On the TV Reader's Digest, a lantern-jawed angel of goodwill named Charlie Faust did for the New York Giants what only Satan could accomplish for the Washington Senators in the Broadway musicomedy Damn Yankees. On Chrysler's Climax!, Betty Furness and Franchot Tone went to the trouble of killing off an expendable playboy on the operating table to bring understanding back...
...Salzburg hillside to form an area where trained horses performed elaborate steps to music for the amusement of 17th century Archbishop Johann Ernst. Arcades and boxes honeycomb a side wall of solid rock. In 1933 Max Reinhardt used the space for his great production of Goethe's Faust...