Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prowl for wine, men and song, the three girls finally snag their sailors. Esther glides gracefully through several swimming numbers, and there are guest appearances by Billy Eckstine, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van and Debbie Reynolds. But, through soggy direction of a waterlogged script, Skirts Ahoy! comes in at only a low tide of musical entertainment...
...script writers apparently turned this one out with two objects in mind: 1) to give Judy Holliday another opportunity to display her talent as a comedienne, and 2) to present a fairly thorough view of the ups and downs of seven years of married life for a struggling young couple in the city. The results of their endeavors is a rather uneven picture one that never quite bridges the gap between its amusing and serious situations. It relies heavily on the abilities of its leading players to make the best of routine episodes and gags of the bathroom bedroom...
...three networks had assembled seven cameras and nearly 100 technicians to put the show on the air. There was no script-only a brief "walk-through" rehear sal. Except for bad timing (the hour-long show ran twelve minutes short), there were surprisingly few blunders. In a week marked by political rebuffs on the steel issue (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the President could console himself with the knowledge that, as a TV master of ceremonies, he had given at least one outstanding performance...
...cameraman and two players (Hillary Brooke, Tom Conway) and began shooting a TV film series. When he needed an apartment set, he rented a furnished apartment for one day (at $75). For scenes in a wealthy man's home, Stone used his own in Brentwood. When the script called for a more modest home, he rented one in California's San Fernando Valley for a day, moved the family out until shooting was over. He even used a real police station-free of charge. After he was well into the TV story, Stone realized that...
Theodore Thieme has moments of brilliance as Marchbanks. If his physical characterization precedes the transition that Shaw put in the script it is barely noticeable in the overall interpretation. His greatest achievements come in the early and late phases of the poet's development, and at: these times he is sure convincing...