Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a Hollywood screenwriter gets tired of cliches, it's news. Last week in the Screen Writer, Scenarist Ken Englund (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) begged his colleagues to please avoid...
College graduates throughout the United States are eligible for the awards. Special district boards will soon be set up, with a local office in Boston to screen candidates. Applicants will be considered on the basis of their personalities as well as their previous record, while a student's purpose in attending a foreign school will also weigh heavily in the decision...
...kind of an endless thing. It is really one of the biggest hits of our lifetime. I've never seen anything like this before in the theater. I practically choked. Why, a man said he'd write me a check for a million dollars for the screen rights. I wanted to accept just so I could see what a check for a million dollars looked like. But we want to do the thing ourselves in Hollywood some day, so we're not selling...
Ronald Colman owes his screen career-or its beginning, anyhow-to the quick judgment of another movie veteran, Director Henry King. King spotted Colman on Broadway in 1922 (supporting Ruth Chatterton and Henry Miller in La Tendresse), and gave him the male lead opposite Lillian Gish in The White Sister (1923). Since Miss Gish became a nun in the picture, all Colman could do was look frustrated, but he did that so handsomely that his movie career was assured. During the middle and late '20s he and the late John Gilbert ran neck & neck as Hollywood's foremost...
...feature, "The Private Affairs of Bel Ami," stars George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, and Ann Dvorak, and is just about the most detestable bilge that has been flung at a screen since the nickelodeon went out. It's dull...