Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even more distinguished Hollywood prospect: Britain's onetime Prime Minister David Lloyd George.* Producer Selznick. back from a month abroad with his wife Irene, daughter of MGM's potent Louis B. Mayer, said he had chatted with Mr. Lloyd George in London, secured permission to make a scenario of his War Memoirs. If the scenario satisfies him, Mr. Lloyd George may travel to Hollywood to supervise the screening...
...however, that there is little opportunity to develop any emotional power or sequence of action. "Spitfire" falls into the current motion picture habit of abbreviating. The existence of Hex superstitions is indicated only by a few statements on the part of some of the local characters. A more skillful scenario writer would have given an interesting picture-illustration of this unusual phenomenon of present-day America...
...annexed during her wanderings. She wrote two novels and then got gold fever. After encountering nine milion deerflies without panning enough pay dirt to blind one of them, she went down to the seashore "and ventured inta matrimony for two years," Except for a few brief experiences as a scenario writer, Miss Gore has remained in that seashore village--the scene of her novel--and "has done nothing but write, read, swim and tramp the hills for six years...
Sylvia Sidney and Frederick March prove conclusively in "Good Dame" that the director, scenario writer, and author of a movie can be quite insignificant. Without a good story the, two speak poor lines so that one thinks that one is hearing the best lines from the best play of Shakespeare. No doubt it is quite difficult to believe that two simple souls can be quite perfect in the cinema. You think that these two hams are receiving too much credit, that no actor or actress from Hollywood could achieve so much fame legitimately. My opinion would blast all previous ones...
...time. I can not see why the critics were so partial to the director in their reviews and so annoyed with Upton Sinclair who cut two hundred thousand feet of film to a length suitable for a feature picture. After viewing the film one is convinced that the original scenario remains intact, and that the only possible reason to reprove Mr. Sinclair would be that he made the film too short...