Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writers v. Directors. Although he is regarded around Hollywood as something of a genius himself, Nunnally Johnson loathes geniuses. Once, after producing a picture whose director was an alleged genius, he explained: "It isn't worth all the extra trouble you have to go through to get a worse picture." He does not think very highly of directors in any event, as compared with writers. Once he said that the most important function of a good director is to see that the actors don't go home too early. He is, nonetheless, one of the best-liked...
Johnson mots have become legendary around Hollywood and Manhattan. When Walter Winchell met Johnson at the opening of Tobacco Road, he sneered, gently: "That's all about your kind of people, isn't it, Nunnally?" Replied Columbus, Georgia's native son: "Hell, where I come from we call that the country club set." Thrice married, twice divorced, Johnson once told friends: "I always insist on the custody of the mother...
...with four legs and three hands, two of them holding drinks. Then I realized that it was only John Ryan and his girl siting on my girl's lap, thinking, of course, it was a seat. Now, don't get the idea that my girl is fat, because she isn't. It's just that she wears a necklace that looks like a double chin...
...know that it simply isn...
...rightly know he's passed on." In the darkness, Mrs. Thwale crooked her forefinger and traced the letters L O V E on Sebastian's palm. Then she traced a few other, unprintable, four-letter words. "Is it true?" she asked Eustace, "that where you are, there isn't any marrying?" "Backwards and downwards, Christian soldiers," retorted Eustace sarcastically...