author: patrick mcgilligan

Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age

... script I wrote . We were over in the Pacific , and they needed an actor . I wrote all the best jokes for myself ... Scarface [ 1932 ] ? Yeah . Hughes was in trouble with the script on Scarface , and How- ard Hawks came to Ben and asked ...

Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s

... script that is , above all , a grand entertain- ment . After some ... musical sensation Les Miserables , which he detested and I rather liked ... Gypsy ( Mervyn LeRoy ) . Based on his musical play . 1973 1977 The Way We Were ( Sydney ...

Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson

... scriptwriters, Charles R. Griffith, to whip up a suitable scenario. Through the grapevine Jack heard about Corman's plans for a quirky in-joke horror comedy about a people-eating plant, to be called The Little Shop of Horrors. Jack read a ...

Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson (Updated and Expanded)

... scriptwriters, Charles B. Griffith, to whip up a suitable scenario. Through the grapevine Jack heard about Corman's plans for a quirky injoke horror comedy about a peopleeating plant, to be called The Little Shop of Horrors. Jack read a ...

Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast

... script harking back to newspaper accounts of the Bonnie and Clyde saga ... script already existed. Wanger heard the director out about what had happened on Fury, and ... musical recital; Lang made a side tour of the execution room, noting ...

Film Crazy: Interviews with Hollywood Legends

... And Then There Were None. Director, producer. IN FRANCE: One of the great names of world cinema, René Clair. 1947 Le Silence est d'Or/Man About Town. Script,director. 1950 La Beauté duDiable/Beauty andthe Devil (Fr./It.). Script ...

Backstory 5: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s

... Script. Mr. Mom (Stan Dragoti). Script. National Lampoon's Vacation (Harold Ramis). Script Nate and Hayes (Ferdinand ... Home Alone (Chris Columbus). Producer, script. 1990 1991 Curly Sue (John Hughes). Producer, director, script. 1992 ...

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