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Rare is the literary dog who leaves Hollywood without biting the hand that fed him. Biographer (and onetime scenarist) Emil Ludwig bit hard in La Bataille, a Paris weekly. His article, The Seven Pillars of Hollywood, recently reached the U.S. Excerpts...
Married. Myrna Loy, 40, redheaded, pretty but jug-eared "perfect screen wife"; and Commodore (on terminal leave) Gene Markey, 50, cinema scenarist and producer, wartime member of Admiral William F. Halsey's staff; both for the third time; on Terminal Island, Calif. At ceremony's end, Gene pecked Myrna's cheek, she pecked Best Man Halsey's. Said the Markeys: "This time it will stick." Her former husbands: Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., Advertising Executive John D. Hertz Jr. His former wives: Cinemactresses Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr...
Along Came Jones is favored with some unusually good photography, though occasionally arty, it has snatches of ramshackle realism. The picture also had an unusually able scenarist, Funnyman Nunnally Johnson, who never hesitates to throw away a tense scene when he can think of a gag. Sample: finding a murdered body on his hands, Melody Jones asks what his partner means by the phrase corpus delicti. Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict...
Died. Tom C. Geraghty, 62, veteran scenarist and ex-head of the OWI's Holly wood bureau; in Hollywood. Connected with many a foreign film, he once did a historical picture for Mussolini, was paid off one-fifth in cash, four-fifths in olive...
RETURN TO THE VINEYARD - Mary Loos & Walter Duranty-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Scenarist Loos and Reporter Duranty speculate on what happens when the surviving citizens of a Nazi-ruined village go back to it after the war. The citizens of Vineyard, a winegrowing village, live in caves, work hard to restore the blighted grape vines, manage to start a new life despite terrific obstacles. Young Anna's mind is cleared by her love of Joseph, Leah's viciousness subsides when her German lover is allowed to enter the community. Hollywood will not have to revise the ending...