Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judy Holliday is still playing dumb Billie Dawn, while Newcomer Aldo Ray is just a nice husky guy with an even huskier voice. The plot reconciles them at the end on the questionable grounds that they have a way of life worth saving, but by that time the wordy script has divorced itself from its theme...
These two, together with Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn, prance through a script which seems a flimsy, somewhat gruesome takeoff on Guys and Dolls, since it concerns the attempts of a playboy to win the hand of a prissy Salvation Army-type girl. Regrettably, The Belle of New York lacks both the Broadway characters and the amusing lyrics of Guys and Dolls, and there is nothing substituted for them...
...CRIMSON is happy to announce that James B. Conant is President of Harvard, not Yale. It took the quick thinking of George Stewart, professor of English at U.C.L.A., to spot the incriminating error in the Hollywood script of "Night Into Morning...
...often do I gotta tell you (thus Wayne to a persistent interviewer) that I don't act at all-I re-act." By this, Wayne means that on the set he responds to a cue precisely as he would in his own backyard, regardless of what the script and the director may say. John Wayne, at 44, is 1) a businessman who firmly believes in the profitable product he sells, and 2) a craftsman who has learned his trade...
...please his friends, Duke did his best to face the problem as, say, the Ringo Kid might face it. The effort was not altogether successful. When Actor Larry Parks confessed to having once been a party member, newsmen raced to John Wayne for a statement. Caught without a script, Duke fingered his chin, said it was too bad that Larry had been a Communist, but damn courageous of him to admit it. He hoped, he added, that the confession wouldn't hurt Larry's career. At a mass meeting soon afterward, M.P.A. Vice President Hedda Hopper...