Words into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System
- ISBN-10
- 1604739126
- ISBN-13
- 9781604739121
- Category
- Motion picture authorship
- Pages
- 226
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Univ. Press of Mississippi
- Author
- Ronald L. Davis
Description
She'd get on the telephone for hours complaining collect to her agent about life in general. ... Richard worked on Around the World in Eighty Days until Korda sold it to Mike Todd. Then Richard did Abandon Ship with Tyrone Power in ...
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