Word: wellman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Wellman's wonderful original A Star Is Born (1937) and George Cukor's superb musical reworking (1954) both shared the same sure-shot story (written originally by Wellman and Robert Carson). Norman Maine, an actor at the apex of stardom and about to slide into an alcoholic decline, meets, loves and marries a young woman named Esther Blodgett, whose fame gradually surpasses his own. Less out of bitterness than from shame, Maine commits suicide by walking into the surf at Malibu...
Those beefy chorines in numbered jerseys are really Los Angeles Rams Cody Jones, Fred Dryer, Bob Klein, Merlin Olsen, Larry Brooks, Tom Mack, Bill Nelson and Jack Youngblood. The players are holding hands because they are rehearsing a high-kick production number with Dancer Cissie Wellman Donner, all for the sake of a Nov. 19 multiple sclerosis fund-raising benefit in L.A. Come show time, the boys will look even more terpsichorean, according to Costumer Barbara Zelin. Besides pink tutus, "the fellows will wear low-cut white tank tops with their numbers in pink sequins, white tights to show...
...accused Allen of misusing the funds himself, but he is being held responsible for a variety of other sins. "Dwight is an operator, a wheeler-dealer," says Professor Robert Wellman. "But he is a very poor administrator." Adds Professor Albert Anthony: "He's a P.T. Barnum type. He knew damn well he couldn't make the school rank in the top two or three in a few years by scholarly rigor. So he went into all of the innovations that were hot in the late '60s -all the things that were the beneficiaries of federal money...
...Movies. Produced, written and directed by Author and TIME Movie Critic Richard Schickel, The Men concludes next week with a profile of King Vidor. The other past masters of American cinema profiled on the series: Frank Capra, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, Raoul Walsh, William Wellman...
...self-consciousness is contradicted by the rigidities of Red River. For the most part, however, the directors are shown as canny and incorrodable professionals, sustained by vigorous memories and egos. Schickel makes no attempt to hide their flaws: Frank Capra often lurches from sentimentality to unabashed bathos; William Wellman, Raoul Walsh and Howard Hawks appear to have been terrors on the set and in their private lives. But whatever their methods, all eight men achieved results that permanently altered the style of world cinema. Those results have never been better analyzed on television...