Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian Producer Dino de Laurentis are well ahead of M-G-M and David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick. De Laurentis already has a crew in Finland ready to shoot snowy backgrounds for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, although his six writers have not yet done the script for Director King (Duel in the Sun) Vidor. Unintimidated. Todd hired Fred (From Here to Eternity) Zinnemann to direct and Playwright Robert Sherwood to write his version, announced that he had budgeted the movie...
...Charlie Chaplin is hard at work on the script and music of a new movie that he plans to begin shooting within a year. Title: The Good King. Plot: a monarch is forced to abdicate and live like an average man. Having abdicated his monarchical position in Hollywood two years ago, Chaplin is now living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland with wife Oona and their five children. His is the simple life of an average man-in a $200,000 villa (13 rooms) on the shores of Lake Geneva...
Actor Burton, the young British player who made his first big U.S. success in The Robe, does his best, which is never less than vivid, to sustain the early tone; and Moss Hart's script lends him a hand. Drama strides the scene: Is the son as mad as the father? Love (Maggie McNamara) walks in, to soothe his fevered brow. And just when the action has settled down to a nice homey drone of hysteria, almost as dull as Saturday night in Bedlam-bang! Brother John (John Derek) puts a bullet into Abraham Lincoln, and the public takes...
...could think of was to assign Grace to Green Fire (which she did as her part of the bargain on Country Girl} and then offer her Quentin Durward. Grace, who sees the satin-lined trap as clearly as anyone, refused the Durward part after reading the script. "All the men can duel and fight, but all I'd do would be to wear 35 different costumes, look pretty and frightened. There are eight people chasing me: the old man, robbers, the head gypsy and Durward. The stage directions on every Daie of the script say: 'She clutches...
...picture." Last week MGM's Production Boss Dore Schary summoned Grace to Hollywood to propose a new picture-a western with Spencer Tracy scheduled to costar. After two days' of talk, Grace was still noncommittal; she would wait, she said coolly, until she had seen the completed script...