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A Trove of Faulkner Film Scripts – New York Times
”There are misconceptions about Faulkner as a screenwriter,” Mr. Brodsky said. ”Actually, he worked very hard on the scripts. What he didn’t like was that the films were never made. The old joke –...
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Writers in Hollywood, Faulkner, Huxley, Odets…and Grandma (a repost from 2012)
The day after Christmas, early 1930s: William Faulkner (yes, he was married and significantly older) pictured with Meta Carpenter Wilde (secretary to Howard Hawks and later a Script Supervisor). Meta...
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Thoughts on Bringing Up Baby (1938), by George Kaplan
BEAUTIFUL BABY! A paleontologist with a missing bone; a crazily adorable heiress; a refrigerator-cold fiancee; two (that’s TWO!) leopards, one of which is wild, the other named Baby with a love and...
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Thoughts on music in movies, I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, by George...
BEGUILING MELODIES #1: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Lyrics by Dorothy Fielding, Music by Jimmy McHugh, as heard in Bringing Up Baby “It’s extraordinary how potent cheap music is.” Noel Coward’s...
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“Can working for the movies hurt your own writing?” Paris Review – The Art of...
Robert Capa photo of: Howard Hawks, William Faulkner, and screenwriter Harry Kurnitz INTERVIEWER Can working for the movies hurt your own writing? FAULKNER Nothing can injure a man’s writing if he’s a...
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JOURNALISTS – HOLLYWOOD STYLE
“His Girl Friday” starring Rosiland Russell and Cary Grant: Hildy Johnson: Now, get this, you double-crossing chimpanzee: There ain’t going to be any interview and there ain’t going to be any story....
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GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe on set: Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe in action: .
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HOWARD HAWKS
I understand Howard Hawks enjoyed talking to young people: And, mentoring talent: “We discovered Bacall was a little girl who, when she becomes insolent, becomes rather attractive. That was the only...
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BOGART AND BACALL’S WEDDING
A friend asked me in the comments (http://skepperson.com/) if there were any similarities between the chapters of the novel I was posting and the real story of Bogart and Bacall. She asking if a story...
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HOWARD HAWKS – GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES – 1953
“I’m a storyteller – that’s the chief function of a director. And they’re moving pictures, let’s make ’em move!” Howard Hawks “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (based on the novel by Anita Loos) has been...
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THE SWIFTS OF BRENSTON: I AM ELLIS SWIFT – PART 1 – BY GEORGE KAPLAN
I am Ellis Swift. “So what?”, I hear you say. It is true you have no reason to be interested in me, and you probably haven’t heard of me, but trust me I have a story to tell. Well, I say *a* story it...
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BEGUILING BOOKS WITH GEORGE KAPLAN
Booking A Show Adapting a book for the screen isn’t easy. No, really, don’t laugh at the obviousness of that statement! It isn’t. A screenwriter (okay, this is Hollywood we’re talking about…is there a...
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Bringing Up Baby – Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Howard Hawks
David Huxley: Now it isn’t that I don’t like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I’m strangely drawn toward you, but – well, there haven’t been any quiet moments. I need a little...
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Bringing Up Baby – I just went gay all of a sudden
Hawks’ friend (and Hepburn’s sometime-boyfriend) Howard Hughes finally suggested Cary Grant for the role. Grant had just finished shooting his breakthrough romantic comedy The Awful Truth, and Hawks...
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What the Mister said about engagement rings… Don’t be conned by De Beers
Keeping that in mind I tried to quell my excitement about seeing the work of master artisans: Van Cleef & Arpels, but something happened when those spotlights in the museum hit the jewels and they...
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I let Mr. Lester write the title of this post… tawdry Hollywood underground...
I’ve been on a binge lately, watching comedies from the Seventies. That’s the decade I grew up in. Ten at the start, almost twenty by the time it was all over. I realized I’ve only seen the films once...
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