Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plates read: DICR. A guard nonchalantly nodded him through, and inside, Songwriter Dick Rodgers was greeted by his longtime mate in music, Oscar Hammerstein II. Unobtrusively, they paced the outer fringes of a noisy, cluttered stage, paused beneath a blackboard reading CINDERELLA RUN-THROUGH-FULL CAST. "This is no-script day," said Hammerstein. There were 21 days left to turn the scullery maid of an idea-a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical version of Cinderella-into the glittering color spectacular CBS promises to deliver live to the TV audience on Sunday, March 31, from...
While a few performers struggled over a balky bit of dialogue, the rest of the cast, chorus and crew quit rehearsal for a break. Cigarettes glowed. Wax paper from sandwiches rustled on bare metal chairs. A percolator murmured on a hot plate next to a pile of coffee-stained script books. Six white mice napped in a bird cage in the temporary quiet of Cinderella's kitchen. "They've grown so fast during rehearsal," a prop man said, "that we'll have to get new ones for the show." A bruised plaster pumpkin sat in front...
...outfielder of the Boston Red Sox, who suffered an emotional collapse five years ago which almost ended his career before it began. Unlikely as it may look from the bleachers, Piersall suffered from what has been called the Laius complex.* Piersall's father (Karl Malden), according to the script, was a wild ball hawk whose wings were clipped by family responsibilities, and who determined to live out his own lost life in the person of his son (Anthony Perkins). In psychological effect, the father murdered the son, and reanimated the boy's body with his own soul...
Perhaps it is only natural that the script should be friendly to the central character. Through most of the picture he is presented as a man more robbed than robbing, an honest Missouri dirt farmer who was driven to desperate ventures by the cruel Yankee-panky of his neighbors in the days that followed the Civil War. "He's just a man," somebody sobs, "who loves his family and his home." Matter of fact, as Robert Wagner plays the part with soft suburban face, the hero could pass for a rising young broker. As for all that gunplay...
...several classic moments--among them a wonderfully droll bit when he chastises an infant for throwing cereal by emptying the bowl on the youngster's head. Maureen O'Hara and Robert Young perform adequately as the harassed couple in typical domestic comedy fashion with soap-opera naivete. The script is often forced and depends on such cliches as prying neighbors, bosses chasing their secretaries, and the like...