Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet acting. In the foggier role of the housemaster's wife, Cinemactress Deborah Kerr (no relation) is very radiant, but a little wooden. Theatrically, Kazan's direction is everywhere successful; yet it exploits its material as often as it expresses it; goes arm in arm with the script where it might better lead...
...does what he can in other writing fields. And he is certainly among the few living poets, not to mention scenario writers, who could successfully have written The Doctor and the Devils, the screenplay for a new British film.* Published as a book, his script combines some of the best virtues of fiction and drama. What is just as important, Poet Thomas remains a poet while doing a job that most highbrow poets would pooh-pooh, unless it were offered to them...
Enemies Preferred. Poet Thomas goes to work. Dr. Knox (to allow the script wider latitude) becomes Dr. Rock. The reader meets him first on a morning walk, wielding "his stick like a prophet's staff . . . the wide, sensual mouth tightened into its own denial." He is a sharp-tongued, arrogant genius, always at odds with his colleagues, the newspapers, society in general. His creed on the lecture stand: "Let no scruples stand in the way of the progress of medical science." His personal credo: "I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company, and their...
MacLeish made no changes in the original radio script of "The Trojan Horse." This presents a major directing problem. "Voices can describe action on the radio," MacLeish said, "but when both are present together on a stage, they sometimes detract from each other". This problem has been solved by the Poets group, he added...
...unstraining as the script, and only occasionally resorting to pratfalls and double takes, the small cast maintains the cheerfully precise manner that Britain seems to expect of her theatrical children. Roland Culver, as Philip, seems the most competent, and is assured enough a comedian to risk being an unobtrusive straight man when the libretto so demands. But his colleagues, Anne Vernon and Celin Gordon, are certainly more than adequate, and the cast's measure of excellence is the smooth mesh of the three parts into a gently round of risque chuckles...