Word: scripts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With money for sound equipment, Ivy threatens to hit the industry with highly professional talkies. Still in the midst of a script writing contest, Charles A. Yoder '49, president of the group, admits that the topic is not yet definite. "But," he asserts, "We've get a lot on the fire...
...usual, not all the reviews were favorable. "The civil union of an Indian prince and his girl friend by a Communist functionary," sneered Los Angeles' Father Thomas J. McCarthy in his tabloid Tidings. Moaned A.P.'s Hal Boyle: "A strictly grade B script . . . how bad can times get?" The script was no worse than Rita's touted The Lady from Shanghai; like the film, it was expensive, pointless, and covered a lot of geography...
High-priced live properties were involved, too. Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. and Director John Huston labored over production logistics, the script, casting, and selection of thousands of costumes and props. The picture was on the schedules of Elizabeth Taylor, Walter Huston and Peck himself, who was to finish a film for 20th Century-Fox on June 15 and fly straight to Rome...
Some M-G-M officials secretly thought it was just as well. Quo Vadis still had no final shooting script, some casting and production details were unsettled; with luck, most of the $1,000,000 investment could be salvaged in the end. Besides, M-G-M still had an even jumpier headache: Judy Garland had flounced off the Annie Get Your Gun lot, and the company had decided to scrap much of some $1,000,000 worth of film and wait until late summer to start the picture all over again with Betty Hutton...
...another occasion last year the public Relations office scheduled an information broadcast, where an economics instructor was to speak for several minutes on the Taft-Hartley Act. It was reported that the Public Relations office asked the instructor to change his script because it was not objective enough. The speaker refused and so the speech was cancelled...