Word: scenarist
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...care what the part is," says Director Vincente Minnelli, "she can do anything." Seeing her on the screen, Scenarist Dwight Taylor (Top Hat) was reminded of his mother, the late famed Actress Laurette Taylor. "The comparison is irresistible," he wrote Director Minnelli. "There are only a few over the years who can say 'I'm going out to buy a can of pork and beans' and find you choking up. Judy Holliday has a lot of that. And Shirley Booth's voice has some of it. But if I had a choice of a performance...
...newspapers applauded the news last week that President Eisenhower had picked Clare Boothe Luce to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Brazil-the U.S.'s first woman envoy to a Latin American country. Sometime journalist (managing editor of Vanity Fair at 29), playwright (The Women), movie author and scenarist (Come to the Stable) and Congresswoman (from Connecticut, 1943-47), Clare Luce, 55, served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy for 3½ eventful years-1953-56. During her service in Rome, Communism's threat to Italy was decisively broken, and she helped settle the explosive old quarrel between Italy...
Married. Eric Ambler, 49, London-born movie scenarist (The Cruel Sea), topnotch writer of international-intrigue thrillers (A Coffin for Dimitrios, Cause for Alarm); and Joan Harrison, about 45, blonde, brainy TV producer (Alfred Hitchcock Presents); he for the second time, she for the first; in San Francisco...
...Lyons), Dulcy's circle includes her bemused brother-in-law (Perry Fiske); a humorless, successful businessman (Lawrence Fletcher) with a flighty, amateur-writing wife (Gloria Barret), love-smitten daughter (Betty Rollin), and silly advertising agent (Brooks Rogers); an overdrawn temperamental Hollywoodite (Leo Bloom), who insists on being called a "scenarist" rather than a "scenario writer"; a piano-playing gentleman with hallucinosis (Justice Watson); a celebrated attorney (Stanford McAuley); and an ex-larcenous butler (Howard Mann...
...defendant in the case is not only this jury but the entire jury system, and even justice itself as the Anglo-American mind conceives it. And with a mixture of classic craft and hard-cover whodunitism that sometimes suggests a weirdly successful collaboration between Aeschylus and Agatha Christie, Scenarist Rose has jittered his melodrama with fierce juridical excitement...