Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second to Fernandel himself, what makes the film come over so well is the excellent script by Gerald Cartlier. Never does it lag and never does he overwork a gag. Director Jean Boyer also deserves credit for this excellent bubbling flow that is the strength of the picture...
...campus newspaper articles he had written.* Director John Frankenheimer (Williams. '51), a gangly TV veteran of 27, was disappointed from the start with George Bellak's TV adaptation of his original play. So Frankenheimer called in TV Author Rod (Requiem for a Heavyweight) Serling to doctor the script. With accomplished Actor Ben Gazzara to play the role, Frankenheimer wanted to expand the part of Stanley, the dead boy's roommate, who makes an effort to stop the fatal roughhouse, then suffers with a conscience-driven urge to tell all. "I want to be conscious of Benny Gazzara...
...about to stage a play whose off-Broadway version in 1954 pleaded "for soft handling of suspected Communists." The story sent Madison Avenue into a flap, and ad agencies for go's five sponsors talked of backing out. Officials at CBS rushed down a wad of proposed script changes...
...According to the script, Argentina's Antonino Rocca was one of the "heroes," and California's Dr. Jerry Graham was one of the "villains" in the professional wrestling show at Madison Square Garden. But wrestlers are notorious hams, and few fans were surprised when Rocca attacked Graham after the bell. Only when the burly Argentine began banging his opponent's head against a ring post and real blood fell on the canvas, did the crowd realize that it was watching a real fight for a change. Few in the Garden wanted to waste the rare opportunity. Beer...
...Edge of the City) Poitier quit his co-starring role as Porgy, declared that the show was a "classic," but "as a creative artist, I just do not have enough interest in the piece." Goldwyn's version of the incident: Poitier quit after his demand to approve the script had been refused. Said Goldwyn: "If Poitier had seen a script and the way we are treating Porgy and Bess, he would be excited to do it." Goldwyn would name no names of other entertainers who had turned down roles, but called the boycott "an underground movement by radicals...