Ernest Lehman
Hollywood screenwriter Ernest Lehman dies By Duane Byrge and Gregg Kilday LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Ernest Lehman, the screenwriter whose adaptations of such high-profile Broadway productions...
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It's so rare to see such a perfect blend of script, director and actor as you see in NORTH BY NORTHWEST... in today's age of mindless screenwriting, we are all the poorer for the passing of such a...
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SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS gets better every time I watch it. Come here, Sidney, I want to chastise you.
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Lehman freely admitted that Odets wrote most of SWEET's endlessly quotable dialogue, but the film's story was Ernie's baby all the way. "The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river." "I'd hate to...
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Lehman wrote some pretty darned quotable dialogue himself. From SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME: Rocky: "Hey, Benny, says here I'm a promising heavyweight." Benny: "Everybody who's young is promising. The...
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Besides his scripts I've enjoyed listening to Lehman speak on the movies that he's been a part of in several taped interviews concerning each and the people that he's worked with over his career....
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from "Creative Screenwriting" newsletter... "Ernie Lehman was one of the last and greatest screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age. The only special effects in his brilliant screenplays were human...
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Quote:The only special effects in his brilliant screenplays were human beings." Sounds like a bumper sticker; it's memorable but flippant and false. Several of Lehman's films had a lot of special...
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"Ernie Lehman was one of the last and greatest screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age. The only special effects in his brilliant screenplays were human beings." Mel Shavelson, on the passing of...
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Quote:I would intepret that second sentence as meaning that, unlike so many movies today, Lehman's emphasis was on human beings rather than special effects. Well, yeah, I know what he MEANT, but it's...
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Well, yeah, I know what he MEANT, but it's not what he SAID. He was trying to be clever, to coin a phrase, and wound up sounding glib and unobservant. Like I said, a bumper-sticker phrase, not a...
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I can't remember any special effects shots in The Sound of Music. Maybe a matte shot Salzburg here or there? Certainly not what I would call "lots."
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"I would intepret that second sentence as meaning that, unlike so many movies today, Lehman's emphasis was on human beings rather than special effects" That's what I think as well. Mel's comment was...
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North By Northwest: Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint are hanging for their lives on the side of Mt Rushmore, while bad guys are stalking after them. Eve Kendall: What happened with your first two...
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