Movie Love Scenes Best When Done By Women Scenarists

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19128, 24 September 1936, Page 13

Movie Love Scenes Best When Done By Women Scenarists

HOLLYWOOD, July 18. TF it is a love scene, let a woman write it. With that theory rapidly gaining ground, the demand for women scenarists in Hollywood is greater that perhaps any other in motion picture history. Fourteen are under contract to one company alone. Alihough their activities cover practically the entire iield oil script writing, most of their assignments are confined to romantic sequences because of the demand for the "feminine touch" in this difficult department. In W. C. Fields' "Poppy,'Vfor instance, Virginia Van Upp was called in to do the love scenes between Rochelle Hudson and' Rich'ariV Cromwell, although the rest of the script' was handled exclusively by Fields hint'self,. Walde'mar Young and. Bobby Vernoon. Miss Van Upp and Edith Fitzgerald are doing .the entire writing job*on "The Count of Arizona," if or Francis Lederer and Ann Sothern.

j Eve Green is working on the George Raft-Dolores Oos J tcllo liarrymoro picture, "Yours for the Asking"; Madeleine E'uthveii is assigned to "And 'Sudden Death," starring Frances Drake and" Randolph Scott, and Marguerite Roberts collaborated on the Herbert Marshall-Gertrude Michael vehicle, '' Forgotten Faces.''

The- screen play of "The Moon's Our Home," with Margaret Sullavan ."ami Henry Fonda, was done by Isabel Dawn and Boyce DeGaw. And Dorothy Parker, Jean'ib MePherson and Seena Owen are working on originals. Others at this studio with contracts, but, tinassigned at present are Sylvia Thadberg, Viola Shore, Betty Hill, Nina. Eraser and Dorothy Bennett. At another studio, Little Heyward is working on "The Fortune Teller"; Mary McCall, jun., on "The Making of 6'Malley," ,and Lucie Ward ou "Mountain" Justice," which will star Bette Davis.

At a third studio, Frances Marion, 'former newspaperwoman, said to be !the; highest paid scenarist in" the pi«;ture business, is doing' an original. Anita Loos gets part credit for the 'script of "San Francisco," , starring Clark Gable. And Florence Ryorson arid: Tess Slessitiger are working on [pictures as yet untitled.