Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olivier, entrusted with the crucial role of Heathcliff, boasts that he dislikes working for the movies and only does it for money; Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, preparing for their labors on Gunga Din, could barely be persuaded to leave their marathon backgammon game long enough to write a script. The script turned out brilliantly. Olivier's work as Heathcliff is a speaking tribute to the efficacy of the profit motive...
...KEITH MEMORIAL--Little Miss Fixit, alias Deanna Durbin, wends her charming way through another of the average stories Hollywood has bestowed on her, and comes out on top by virtue of a clever script, her own unforced gaiety, and the really remarkable Durbin voice. Those who cringe at the mere mention of sentimentality are not gong to enjoy "Three smart Girls Grow Up," for there are the inevitable "intimate" bedroom scenes, tear-besmirched love affairs, and deep, dark young-girl secrets. But the sentiment is seasoned with humor-as, indeed, the whole film is; Charles Winninger, a hopelessly absentminded Wall...
...psychological profundity amazing for her seventeen years--the interest is centered. Not beautiful except in certain poses, she is nevertheless very appealing, and although her character is at once vain, cruel, tender, and generous, she succeeds in making it credible. If Charles Boyer is overshadowed, it is because the script was so constructed, not because of any weakness in his performance; and the minor characters--even the impossibly naive Gilbert (Robert Manuel) and the eccentric, hardly credible Robert (Jean Louis Barrault)--are skillfully portrayed. Only on one occasion, when the two principal women engage in that lush sentimentality so often...
...gooey molasses of the Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy team Dorothy Parker's script has added just enough vinegar to make "Sweethearts" a fairly enjoyable picture. The more cynical element in American movie audiences will be astonished to find that with good direction, a good script and a good supporting cast, the MacDonald - Eddy team can put on a fine show. Of course there're the customary shots of Nelson Eddy in a soldier's uniform and Jeanette MacDonald's exotic larynx, but underneath it all is a subdued smirk. At last Hollywood is beginning to realize that the Great American...
...great W. C. Fields, whom Charlie (Bergen) consistently outgagged, whether Fields stuck to the script or not during their five and a half months together on the program, really wanted to demolish Charlie (not Bergen). There was a genuine, jealous glint in the old fellow's eye when he once threatened: "I'll carve you into a Venetian blind." "Oh Mr. Fields," minced Charlie, "you make me shudder...