Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year the script was totally rewritten. After a month of calm discussion, G.E. and the union signed a new five-year contract that made everyone happy. Cooed G.E.'s Boulware: "A splendid settlement." Echoed I.U.E.'s Carey: "A splendid settlement...
...independent Hollywood producer spotted a hot property in a politician's life story, bought rights to make a screen biography of South Dakota's modest, cigar-puffing Republican Governor Joe Foss, 40. The script will need no embroidery. As ringmaster of "Joe's Flying Circus" on Guadalcanal in World War II. Marine Air Force Captain Foss led a hell-for-baling-wire fighter squadron, became a top U.S. ace by downing 26 Japanese planes, for his hazards later was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor. Added touch for Hollywood scenarists : Foss's yen to fly began...
...Virgin Queen (20th Century-Fox) straight from Hollywood's well-worn looms, is a plush, wall-to-wall tapestry depicting the rugged court life of late 16th century England. Chewing around the edges is Cinemactress Bette Davis who, according to the pressagents, was so taken with the script that she scurried out of retirement to play again the role of Queen Elizabeth (her first: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, with Errol Flynn...
...Angeles, with its oil and movie millions, says Connie Hilton, could he build a place like the Beverly Hilton. From start to finish, it has been his own special baby. To make sure that everything goes just right at the opening, Hilton even worked up a 58-page script, plotting every move, allocating every magnum of Besserat de Bellefon champagne, with all the pomp and precision of a Hollywood extravaganza. On buses from the airport, there will be guitarists and champagne; as the guests tour through the Red Lion Bar, a replica of an 11th century English pub, more refreshments...
...Need for Hacks. As the realization grows in TV circles that an inferior script means an inferior show, despite stars and lavish production, the prices for quality plays are gradually spiraling upward. Next season quality writers will get as much as $2,000 for a half-hour script (22 minutes minus commercials and credits) and up to $6,000 for a one-hour script (44 minutes). Some writers are already making $30,000 and $40,000 a year on their TV work alone. When Hollywood snaps up a TV script, the writer's income soars...