Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critics outside Sacramento the efforts involved in getting Sutter's Gold on the screen seemed last week as misdirected as the celebration over its opening was unjustified. Hampered by a script that characterized its hero variously as paragon and scoundrel, pinchpenny and profligate, altruist and profiteer, without ever making him a human being, the best Producer Edmund Grainger, Director James Cruze and Actors Arnold, Lee Tracy and Binnie Barnes could offer the public was 85 minutes of dignified boredom, which suggested that the producers of Sutter's Gold had wearied of the performance before it began...
...clear from the opening scenes that Miss Bergner is going to have adventures. But it soon develops that she has already had a baby, somewhat obscurely identified. That is the handicap imposed upon her by the script. Furthermore, she is not very handsome. Thus for both artificial and natural reasons, Miss Bergner has great obstacles between herself and convincing her public that she can win and hold securely the affection of an immoral English musician. But she succeeds eminently, and explains clearly how she won an Academy award last year for this performance...
...chorus boys and girls deserve a special word. Closing Act I, probably the most acrobatic dance ever seen this side of the Mississippi River is called for in the script. Although everyone feared the worst, only one chorine's costume became disengaged...
...living, the Lord Chamberlain banned them all. Chuckled Playwright Housman last week: "We gave a private performance of the play and one of the ladies in waiting attended for Queen Mary to see if everything was all right. She reported favorably to Her Majesty, who then sent for the script. 'Dear, dear,' she said. 'There are only two plays that I wanted to see and I am forbidden to see either of them.' " Concluded Playwright Housman proudly: "They were my play and Shaw's Apple Cart." To Father Charles Edward Coughlin, who called...
...Pink (Samuel Goldwyn). In the process of establishing himself as a Hollywood reincarnation of Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer Sam Goldwyn, who says he does not care how much a picture costs so long as it pleases Mrs. Goldwyn, expended more than usual pains on Strike Me Pink. He had the script, made from a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Budington Kelland, worked over by 14 writers in teams of two. He cut out a $100,000 dance sequence because it made the picture too long. He added a $75,000 episode to the plot because it made it more exciting...