Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vivacious Lady (Ginger Rogers, James Stewart; TIME...
Vivacious Lady (Ginger Rogers, James Stewart; TIME...
Vivacious Lady . (Ginger Rogers, James Stewart; TIME...
...Holiday, Playwright Barry was, it now appears, touching a more delicate nerve centre than anyone could have guessed before Depression. Consequently, all Screenwriter Stewart had to do to make it look as though the play had been written yesterday was to underscore its already plotted class-angles. Thus, Julia Seton's father becomes an anti-New Deal tory, who regards his prospective son-in-law's distrust of rugged individualistic money-grubbing as dangerously unAmerican. Johnny Case (Gary Grant) becomes the more ingratiating when his ambition to take a sabbatical is presented as evidence of liberal leanings. Linda...
...Columbia will score if Holiday proves a box-office hit for the third time. The company acquired the script for practically nothing, by paying RKO $80,000 for a batch of shelved stories which also turned out to include its current hit, The Awful Truth. As an adapter, Screenwriter Stewart was an obvious, as well as fortunate, selection. One of Playwright Barry's best friends, he started a fashion since copied by Critic Alexander Woollcott, Playwright George S. Kaufman and Novelist John O'Hara by acting in the stage production of Holiday. In this version...