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Talk Of The Town, however, Grant finally got a run for his money in the form of distinguished British actor Ronald Colman, his rival for the love of the eternally fetching Jean Arthur. According to a biography of director George Stevens, he was so unsure as to who Arthur should end up with, he filmed two endings and let test audiences vote on the eventual winner. Consequently, Talk Of The Town remains a romantic toss-up until its final moments. Arthur plays Nora Shelley, a schoolteacher in small-town Lochester, New England, who rents a cottage to distinguished law professor Michael Lightcap ...

Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, whose long career was interrupted by Hollywood's anti-communist blacklist, has died.

NEW YORK (AP) — Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, among the last survivors of Hollywood’s anti-Communist blacklist whose Oscar-nominated script for “The Front” drew upon his years of being unable to work

The blacklist began to weaken in the late 1950s and ended for Bernstein in 1959 with That Kind of Woman, starring Sophia Loren. He was soon working on The Magnificent Seven, the Hollywood adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Seven Samurai, and Marilyn Monroe’s last film that never finished , Something’s Gotta Give. In the 1970s, Bernstein was able to use his own story for what became his most acclaimed project, The Front, starring Woody Allen as a stand-in for blacklisted writers and featuring Bernstein’s friend Zero Mostel, who also had been ostracised in the 50s. Bernstein receive...

Screenwriter Walter Bernstein dies at 101 | 2021/01/24