Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.