Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heading the bill at the University this week, after several weeks showing in Boston theatres, is the screen version of Alexandre Dumas' adventurous novel "The Count of Monte Cristo." Adhering very closely for the most part to the Dumas script the screen adaptation brings to the movie-goer who likes bold adventurers, mellow romance, and plays of a period far removed from our own, an hour's enjoyable entertainment. Cast in the role of Edmond Dantes, later the Count of Monte Cristo, Robert Donat gives a convincing performance. Suave, dashing, and clever, he captures to a great degree the manner...
...California Authority for Money (CAM), which would issue script to facilitate barter between CAP and CAL, and bonds to acquire factories and land...
...brightest girl in every school she went to, including a Los Angeles business college in which she studied stenography and shorthand so as to have a foundation for other professions in case she was a failure in the film business. She studied cutting and carried script for her father. Lately she has been taking thyroid treatments and has lost 25 lb. Paramount was pleased but Mae West told her to gain weight for Belle of the Nineties. She likes to play heavies. She says that anyone can be an ingenue but to be a menace takes action. She does...
...learned all Geddes could teach him in eight months, appeared on Broadway at 18 announcing that he was "God's gift to the Theatre." Twice thrown out of Producer William Harris Jr.'s office in a day, he returned a third time. To squelch him, Harris gave him the script of The Criminal Code, told him to come back next morning with complete sketches and blue prints for the stage design. Prodigy Johnson bent to this mighty task, appeared next morning with the work. He had subordinated detail to mass and form, and his designs not only were accepted...
Able to understand neither the language in which Shakespeare wrote the play nor that in which his Italian mummers were to perform it, Producer Reinhardt drilled his cast from a German script. For a stage, instead of the Piazza San Marco, where most Venetian festivals are held, he chose an obscure and humble piazza called Campo San Trovaso, bounded by a church, two 16th Century tenement houses and a small canal. Shylock's miserly squawkings came from a bridge still decorated by the arms of the Venetian Republic. Gratiano cruised about the canal in a medieval gondola. A garden...