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...Producer Abbott prefers to pick his plays out of the grab bag, or help write them himself, as he did Broadway (with Philip Dunning), Coquette (with Ann Preston Bridgers), Three Men On A Horse (with John Cecil Holm). He has produced plays by established authors, like the Bella & Samuel Spewack Boy Meets Girl, but his experience with warranted materials has not always been pleasant. Last year he presented Sweet River, an adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. It flopped...
...models as Jaeckel's Betty Wyman, Lucky Strike's and Chesterfield's Ida Vollmar) and U. S. fashions but implies that a couturier may indeed be a forceful masculine fellow. The cinemadequate plot and up-to-date dialog are the expert work of Samuel and Bella Spewack (Boy Meets Girl...
...Among them, besides Mr. Howard himself: Bella & Samuel Spewack (Ethan Frame}, Lillian Hellman (The Children's Hour...
Woman Chases Man (United Artists). Screenwriters Samuel & Bella Spewack (Boy Meets Girl) wrote a script and, after reading it, begged Producer Goldwyn to take their names off it, returned the money he had paid them. Director William Wyler, who had been given a vacation with all expenses paid, returned to Goldwyn $25,000 advanced to him in salary and expense money to be let off directing it. Miriam Hopkins offered to pay anything in reason not to star in it, at length agreed to give in and work if Goldwyn got Gregory LaCava to direct. Goldwyn got LaCava, but after...
...Wine (words & music by Frank Mandel, Oscar Hammerstein II & Sigmund Romberg; Laurence Schwab, producer). As Playwrights Bella & Samuel Spewack explain in their current uproarious comedy about Hollywood, most popular drama is derived from the tried & true formula: Boy Meets Girl-Boy Loses Girl-Boy Gets Girl. No one knows better than Messrs. Mandel, Hammerstein and Romberg how exasperating it is to try to find a fresh method of stating this old theme. Last time out together (East Wind, 1931), they solved the problem by having their boy meet their girl in French Indo-China. This year their situation, for musicomedy...