Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture shrewdly cashes in on the superficials of the garment-center scene, slightly altered for Hollywood slickness and stitched out with some sharp dialogue. This background, plus Michael Gordon's spirited direction, Actor Dailey's breeziness and Actress Hayward's fire, brighten the old scenario about the ruthless career woman who is redeemed by the love of a good...
...scenario is out-dated, of course. One revolting scene shows the Goldwyn girls, dressed as WAC's, boarding a troop ship while a band in the background plays a marching song, rousing variety. But most of the way, this story of a hypochondriac in the Army is skillfully handled, from script-writer to Danny Kaye...
Cartoonist Capp, creator of the comic strip "Li'l Abner," will evaluate the effect of the comics on the movies. As a former Hollywood scenario writer, he should be able to compare the typical movie and comic strip audience...
...that time, there is a good deal of interesting and humorous scenario, and some fine acting. The picture is all about a little boy who digs in the mudbanks for a living and decides one day that he would like to visit the Queen, who is living in seclusion at Windsor, mourning her fifteen-years-dead husband. It is an understandable wish, one that any red-blooded little English lad might well harbor, and as long as he is thwarted in his efforts the picture keeps up a lively pace...
Perhaps more important, she is a fine actress. Her acting, combined with her splendid physical assets, always succeed in making Do Santis' hyperthyroid scenario seem plausible. She throws herself into the part completely, and the effect is often overpowering...