{"id":4141,"date":"2011-03-14T11:46:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T11:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2011-03-14T11:46:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T11:46:52","slug":"the-shopworn-angel-day-five-40movies40days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/the-shopworn-angel-day-five-40movies40days\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shopworn Angel – Day Five – #40movies40days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Shopworn Angel is Waldo Salt’s first credited screenplay. \u00a0He joined the American Communist Party in 1938, and was a civilian consultant to the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II.[citation needed]<\/div>\n
Salt’s career in Hollywood was interrupted when he was blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951. Like many other blacklisted writers, while he was unable to work in Hollywood Salt wrote pseudonymously for the British television series The Adventures of Robin Hood.[3] After the collapse of the blacklist, Salt won Academy Awards for Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home, and a nomination for his work on Serpico.<\/div>\n
The Shopworn Angel<\/em> is Waldo Salt’s first credited screenplay. \u00a0It’s an oddly subversive anti-war film wrapped in sentimental patriotism.\u00a0It speaks powerfully of the cost of war.<\/div>\n
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Beautiful young men like the young private in the film \u00a0get chewed up in the maw of unceasing of greed and fear that launches every war machine. \u00a0Is it a good thing or a bad thing to preserve the illusions– honor, glory, courage, country– that allow young men to be sent to certain death?<\/div>\n
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Salt was blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951. Like many other blacklisted writers, he wrote pseudonymously for projects in the UK. \u00a0After the collapse of the blacklist, Salt won Academy Awards for Midnight Cowboy<\/em> and Coming Home. <\/em>He was nominated for his work on Serpico<\/em>.<\/div>\n
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The Shopworn Ange<\/em>l features the second screen pairing of actors Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart.\u00a0He is so young in this picture, barely in his twenties!<\/div>\n
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At the time of their first picture together, Stewart was a minor contract player at MGM. When Sullavan brought up Stewart’s name the studio casting-directors had never heard of him. \u00a0At Sullavan’s suggestion, Universal agreed to test him for her leading man and he was borrowed to star with Sullavan in Next Time We Love<\/em>.<\/div>\n
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