Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know how he could get $10. I told him to go down to Santa Monica and collect the customary $10 deposit on an ad he had sold to a washing machine company. This $10 was his commission. Away he went. I have never seen him since except on the screen. I don't believe I have ever missed one of his pictures...
...years, Author Budd Schulberg was well equipped to tackle the job. He was raised in Hollywood where his father, B. P. (for Benjamin Percival) Schulberg, has been a top producer for 20-odd years. Since graduating from Dartmouth in 1936, he has worked off & on as a screen writer. In a neatly organized yarn about a little Jew named Sammy Click, who soars from a $12-a-week office boy on a Manhattan daily to head of a studio before he is 30, Budd Schulberg gathers in the stray and unconnected bric-a-brac which forms the composite Hollywood, fits...
Another technicolor saga of nineteenth century industrialism bites the dust at the U.T. this week. After the Pony Express and the first railroad had made several western trips on the screen, it remained for some producer to string the first continental telegraph. "Western Union" serves this purpose, without doing much more than that. Replete with Indians, bison, love interest and a dudish Harvard graduate, it is hardly epic, but does provide a pleasantly wool-tingling story...
...other half of the screen show, "Honeymoon for Three," is a rather unsuccessful attempt to fit Ann Sheridan into the role of a comedienne. Her companion, George Brent, is very little help in telling the story of a women-chased author trying to decide where his love lies. The odd party of the honeymoon, one Osa Massen, would have been a much better choice, but he just doesn't realize it. However, nothing he could do would make the picture more than mildly amusing...
...somehow a Mack Sennett disciple, perhaps Buster Keaton, was given the job of re-writing the script for the screen. The resultant story had the old name and the old characters, but a somewhat newer approach to the problems of the tenant farmer. Slim Summerville ended up in one of the key dramatic parts; the Three Stooges and Mickey Rooney were unfortunately unavailable, so the Esquire hillbilly roles written for them were given to lesser-known great actors. Will Hays found nothing to censor, and the Governor of Georgia's sole complaint was that the state's fine peaches weren...