Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he is firmly established in show business, Cox is confidently pursuing the urgings of his common sense. He hopes to get his teeth into playwriting, already has completed a script, Violets Are Blue (about an unwanted rosebush). Although he is now making $1,000 a week (roughly 40 times his silversmithing salary), he still lives simply in a Manhattan apartment, drives the motorcycle he bought from his friend, Actor Marlon Brando, still patches his trousers with plastic cement. He spends his weekends flower-watching on a newly acquired 2½-acre field in Rockland, N.Y. "Next thing," he says...
Said the Daily Express: "After the Churchill thunderburst comes the Butler rainbow." Bankers in the City grumbled that cabinet ministers ought to speak from the same script. Actually, Churchill was trying to stir the home folks, Butler to reassure the rest of the world, and both were in a way right-Butler in saying that the decline has not worsened, Churchill in saying that the situation is still perilous...
John O. Whedon--Writer. Has published in Collier's New Yorker, Harper's, and others. In Hollywood, wrote for Ronald Colman, Groucho Marx, Noel Coward, Carole Lombard, Alexander Woolcott, Madeleine Carroll, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Did Duffy's Tavern script...
With an ailing script and stiff, pseudo-documentary direction, the picture plods along at a pace not much faster than the horse-drawn ambulances...
...shot in a number of unrelated scenes. The action takes place on four sets; two of them represent the Ricardos' Manhattan apartment, a third shows the nightclub where Ricky's band plays and the fourth is used for any other scenes called for by the script. Says Desi proudly: "We have real furniture, real plumbing, and a real kitchen where we serve real food. Even the plants are really growing; they're not phony...