Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most powerful yet one of the clumsiest and least poetic plays that Shakespeare wrote. It is magnificently produced in this film translation by Sir Laurence Olivier, who not only directed the picture with taste and skill of a high order, but also "monkeyed around" with the Shakespeare script -cutting, transposing, and sometimes just plain changing-in a wickedly ingenious way. The cast Olivier has assembled is a Who's Who of the British theater-Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Claire Bloom, Pamela Brown-and they play, for the most part, with a remarkably even...
...quivering at her roots, too-over Aldo, a part-time actor, gigolo, spiv and, of course, a "god." Jane writes letters to Aldo in which she calls him "lord and master of my life." The attempt to recover these letters forms a plot as schematic as a shooting script...
...Dubois, Tallulah was heartily playing Tallulah. She roared over the boards, always managed to be upstage, downed her onstage liquor as if it were the real stuff, generally hammed her way through the part in a spirit of riotous deviltry. In the play's climactic scene, where the script calls for Blanche to be set up for a rape by brutish Stanley Kowalski, most viewers feared for poor Kowalski. As Streetcar's wild run began, Playwright Tennessee Williams had unwarily cozied up to Tallulah in her dressing room (see cut). After catching her first performances, he began attending...
...attention of the head waiter and when Sherwood explained to him that a valuable, original manuscript had probably been left in a taxi, the waiter said, in a very calm voice: "I wouldn't worry, sir. Nobody ever loses anything in a London taxicab." He was right. The script was back at Sherwood's hotel, the following morning...
...shouted back at me. "Only the manuscript of my latest play. That's all. The best that Sherwood ever wrote, if you really want to know." He stood up and glared down at me. "And I might add, just for the record," he moaned, "that there isn't another script, anywhere...