Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Isle of Fury" is a scenario writer's nightmare, containing every possible dramatic situation with the exception of the World War. Margaret Lindsay and Humphrey Bogart, he of the underworld voice, are the leading players in a series of adventures on a Pacific island. A mysterious though good-looking stranger is shipwrecked into a group of pearl divers and fugitives from justice and, or civilization. Among the other thrills are an underwater fight with an octopus, a pearl robbery, a shooting, and an unveiling of a G-man. Humphrey Bogart is convincingly hardboiled and confident as he drives the natives...
Like Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Romeo and Juliet, the Czinner As You Like It is textually exact. Sir James Barrie made the treatment from which Screenwriter R. J. Cullen wrote the scenario. Said Cinemactress Bergner: "I would like you to believe that we have made the film with love and with reverence. " . . We have had slightly to cut one or two of the longer speeches, but every word that we have left out has only been left out after argument, quarreling, and occasional tears." To highlight his wife's performance, Director Czinner saw to it that other roles...
...gags, for example, are built about a broken-down illiterate cowboy star's being baited by two mad pranksters, who would seem to be the only two brains in Holly-wood. Roy Roberts, in the role of one of these, probably carries off the acting honors. He represents a scenario writer who would much rather be back in Vermont writing a book of the soil, and who consequently treats his associates, especially the cowboy and the preposterously pedantic boss, with highly amused condescension. His greatest coup is the bringing to prominence of Happy and Happy's mother. Mario Brown...
...Author. The life of Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette reads like a scenario for one of her novels. She was born 63 years ago in Burgundy, the daughter of a Captain in the Zouaves who was an unsuccessful politician and a student of military affairs. A star pupil in school, she read constantly, wrote compositions "as easily as one would fry an egg," did not realize the character of her talent until later. At 20 she married a 34-year-old author of popular romances who had hoped she would help him socially, found that she was too outspoken...
...although James Bunting was free to enjoy the sacraments outside Chichester, that young man professed to believe he was just as much excommunicated as if the Church had consigned him to Satan with a Fiat, fiat, fiat!* From a seaside resort Bunting, who said he had been a scenario writer in Hollywood, announced he was retaining counsel, would try to prove the Bishop wrong. Admitting he had his parents' money, he said: "In the past it may be I was a naughty boy, but there are lots of sons who have been naughty boys...