Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture, "A Woman's Vengeance," was effected only with a loss in subtle force equal to that suffered in the change of titles. But all of Huxley could not be distilled out fortunately, and that which remains raises the film far above the usual "psychodrama." His writing of the scenario produced dialogue more profound than that, ordinarily heard in film...
Producer Darryl Zanuck made Agreement his "personal production" (i.e., his bid for the 1947 Academy Award) and gave it everything-notably Moss Hart, who has written a first-rate scenario, and Elia Kazan, who has richly fulfilled his high directorial promise of Boomerang! Kazan's sure hand has bottled John Garfield's carbonated talents into a clear, constrained performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through...
...Nothing); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A wry-writing favorite of Manhattan's wry-minded literary set in the late '20s, Hoffenstein (who had written, I'd rather listen to a flute in Gotham, than a band in Butte) disappeared into Hollywood as a scenario writer, later explained: "In the movies we writers work our brains to the bone, and what do we get for it? A lousy fortune...
...Emeric Pressburger apparently felt they could dispense with Charles Dickens and do their own writing as well. Unfortunately, "I Know Where I'm Going" misses the collaboration of Mr. Dickens considerably, but the combined talents of mature actress Wendy Hiller, photographers with imagination, and some native Scots have overcome scenario shortcomings and produced a pleasurable film...
...scenario for the initial film has been completed under the direction of Roemer, who was assisted by Ulric G. Neisser '50 and Murray L. Lerner '48. Alden described the script as a "comic fantasy, tentatively entitled, 'Touch of the Times,' which will utilize local scenery whenever possible." Most of the Veritas shooting will be done outdoors, he added...