Word: schrank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lady, deals with romance between a poor but honest young working man (Dick Powell) and an opinionated but lovely young heiress (Olivia de Havilland) with a crotchety father (Charles Winninger). Product of the Hollywood minimum of five writers (Jerry Wald. Maurice Leo, Richard Macauley, Wally Klein, Joseph Schrank), it shows a few deviations from pattern which give it an unexpected and agreeable individuality. Sample: when the heiress (as in The Cowboy and the Lady) adopts the invariable ruse of impersonating her own maid, her father, instead of objecting, happily arranges for her to serve dinner...
...Page Miss Glory (by Philip Dunning & Joseph Schrank; Schwab & Dunning, producers) is a broad farce about the beauty prize racket. A pair of idlers are about to be tossed out of Manhattan's non-existent Ritz-Plaza Hotel for failure to pay their board bill when one, a composite photographer by trade, hits upon the idea of manufacturing with his lens the most beautiful girl in the U. S. A laxative firm is offering $2,500 for her picture. She is given Greta Garbo's eyes, Constance Bennett's hair, Myrna Loy's lips, Katharine Hepburn's nostrils, Norma Shearer...