Word: mcgiver
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Last week the festival opened without a star (Father Hartke had wanted Jimmy Stewart, who couldn't make it), but with much of the ceremony given a Hollywood premiere. The play itself, John McGiver's All Gaul Is Divided, was a comedy about G.I. black market operations in France, and perhaps not worth so much fuss. But stage & screen bigwigs by the dozens and critics by the score came to look things over. Paramount and Pathe newsreelmen took shots. This week NBC will telecast the play, plans to do the same for all seven plays...
Hollywood benignly agreed that Playwright McGiver was ready for some graduate work. Cinemogul David O. Selznick sent him the script of the forthcoming Portrait of Jenny, asked if McGiver would please, for good Hollywood money, just touch up the Irish dialogue...