Word: litvak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly, by one of those crises that occur hourly in Hollywood, Wallis discovered that he needed a script for Bette Davis at once. Anatole Litvak, already scheduled to produce the next Davis film, was called in. Lewis, Robinson and Litvak trimmed the script to 180 pages. Litvak, who understands the Davis temperament, suggested alterations which would change the heroine from "a woman in love to one with more subtle complicated emotions." But the biggest Litvak contribution was to bring Bette Davis and the Duke de Praslin (Charles Boyer) together as the Duke is dying-something Novelist Field had found unnecessary...