Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glenn Ford is a confused and sensitive young teacher in the part of Dadier. His portrayal falters only in certain scenes, as in his return to his old college, where the script leads him down with so many lines of platitudinous garbage that he could scarcely he expected to carry them off well. Among his colleagues at the school. Louis Calhern is bitter but human as a disillusioned history teacher, while Margaret Haves reads her way through a very hollow portryal of a pretty and frustrated schoolteacher who tempts circumstances too much...
Mario Scelba is slow to anger and never reaches heights of flaming oratory. He is the kind of man who writes out all his political pronouncements, follows his script closely and cannot be heckled into indiscretions. Last week, aware of his troubles, modest Mario Scelba, in a speech to 71 delegates of the Demo-Christian National Council, came as close as he ever does to boasting: "We have solved the Trieste problem and approved the Paris accords. We have laid the foundation for closer collaboration with Yugoslavia and have ended the sad chapter of struggle with Great Britain. With...
...last week and regretfully decided to drop her from his CBS-TV Morning Show. In her place he hired blonde Edith Adams, probably no better at singing than Betty. Why did he do it? Explained Paar: "We're on the air 15 hours a week, mostly without script, so everyone has to double in brass. Edith Adams can do any dialect, sing in Italian, German and French, and mimic personalities from Louis Armstrong to Marilyn Monroe. What's more, she's full of ideas, and ideas are what we live...
...takes something special to kid the book, the script, and the other characters and make the audience love it. Bogart and Bacall have that something. In The Big Sleep they are at their corny, classic best...
...foolhardy maneuver against the Japanese. He has gone "round the bend" since his bride was killed on their wedding night. But once he meets Win, he realizes that "it is no good to die inside," and proves his will to live after a crash landing. Unfortunately, the tired script and plodding direction need even more than brilliance a thousandfold...