Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hallmark Hall of Fame (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.), TV will catch up to it with an adaptation by Playwright Connelly himself. But in the 27 years since Green Pastures excited Broadway, public attitudes toward both religion and the Negro have changed-and so has this week's script. Many a theater lover might wistfully recall when Pastures looked greener...
...gars, is not addressed by irreverent gamblers any more as Liver Lips or even High Pockets; instead they call him Preacher Man. According to a spokesman, the whole cast will speak with "a soft rural-type intonation" rather than the Negro dialect in Connelly's Pulitzer Prizewinning script. Nobody will wear a derby. Cain still slays Abel, but morals are tightened up all through Genesis, e.g., instead of getting high on his keg of whisky, Noah just gets rosy. Perhaps the unkindest cut will fall on those who especially relished a Babylon that looked like a New Orleans nightclub...
...Giants That Wreck Our Highways," which ran in Everybody's Digest; a film based on another Byoir-inspired article appearing in 1952 went out to small-town theaters under the production banner of the "Farm Roads Foundation." The film credits mention neither Byoir Associates, who wrote the script, nor the railroads, who anted up $60,000 of the production costs...
...very creditable comeback in the part of the school teacher. His acting is now characterized by the jerky, uncompleted, but strangely effective gestures which distinguished the work of the late James Dean. If the teacher's actions are still not entirely comprehensible, the fault must be laid to the script and not to Clift...
...dull and unimportant it really is." But for his return to TV last week on ABC's filmed crime series, The Walter Winchell File, the columnist-turned-actor slowed down his Teletype voice; what he said was still unimportant but, thanks in considerable part to a good script by ex-New York Daily Mirror Reporter Adrian Spies, never dull. The story concerned a psychopathic killer, who haunts a frightened cop, "a man without guile, walking perhaps to death when his heart was full of new life." Winchell's old vaudeville training stood him in good stead, especially when...