Word: screenplays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screenplay, by Director George Seaton and George Oppenheimer, has slicked up and sentimentalized the rather owlish, rough-hewn original story to make a folksy, affectionate film. As the immigrant who aspires to become a good American, horsefaced José Ferrer does his best job of movie acting to date. Eugenie...
Producer Kramer, "amazed" at the Navy's blast, said last week: "This is all silly. Nobody has seen the screenplay yet. It isn't finished." When it is, Kramer is sure the Navy will like it fine...
...John dramatizes a theme of front-page importance. Unfortunately, its subject is relegated to the more colorful but less newsworthy show-business section. The complex dramatic material is reduced to simple melodramatics and, in Leo McCarey's plodding direction of a muddled and maudlin screenplay, the picture has not much to offer either politically or cinematically...
With a Song in My Heart (20th Century-Hox) derives its drama from the gallant, real-life story of Singing-Star Jane Froman.-Unfortunately, the picture is less inspiring than its theme. Producer Lamar Trotti's screenplay is larded over with sentimentality, and Jane Froman's toughly courageous story emerges on the screen as the_ sort of life she might have led if Technicolor cameras had been looking...
This tenuous little spoof-on-a-bicycle is no weightier than a postcard, and its contents are no more momentous. But in the sprightly pantomiming of Actor Tati (who also directed and co-authored the screenplay), the picture occasionally seems to be arriving by special delivery...