Film Scenes For Actors

Introduction ix Scenes: Frank Capra's IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT(one scene for one man and one woman) / Robert Riskin = 1 Frank Capra's MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON(one scene for one man and one woman) / Sidney Buchman = 10 REBECCA(one scene for one man and one woman) / Robert E. Sherwood ; Joan Harrison = 22 CITIZEN KANE (one scene for one man and one woman)(one scene for two men) / Orson Welles ; Herman J. Mankiewicz = 32 THE MALTESE FALCON (two scenes for one man and one woman) / John Huston = 41 CASABLANCA (one scene for one man and one woman) / Julius J. Epstein ; Philip G. Epstein ; Howard Koch = 55 ADAM'S RIB (one scene for one man and one woman) / Ruth Gordon ; Garson Kanin = 61 SUNSET BOULEVARD (one scene for one man and one woman) / Billy Wilder ; Charles Brackett, ; D. M. Marshman, Jr. = 67 ALL ABOUT EVE (two scenes for one man and one woman) / Joseph L. Mankiewicz = 77 THE AFRICAN QUEEN (two scenes for one man and one woman) / James Agee ; John Huston = 90 ON THE WATERFRONT (one scene for two men) / Budd Schulberg = 108 THE GODDESS (one scene for two women) / Paddy Chayefsky = 114 SOME LIKE IT HOT (three scenes for one man and one woman) / Billy Wilder ; I.A.L. Diamond = 120 THE MISFITS (two scenes for one man and one woman) / Arthur Miller = 137 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (three scenes for two men) / Robert Bolt = 148 DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (two scenes for two men) / Stanley Kubrick ; Terry Southern ; Peter George = 167 THE PRODUCERS (one scene for two men) / Mel Brooks = 185 THE GRADUATE (two scenes for one man and one woman) / Buck Henry = 197 MIDNIGHT COWBOY (two scenes for two men) / Waldo Salt = 216 THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? (one scene for one man and one woman) / Robert E. Thompson = 224 FIVE EASY PIECES (two scenes for one man and one woman) / Adrien Joyce = 231 KLUTE (one scene for one man and one woman) / Andy Lewis ; Dave Lewis = 245 CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (one scene for two men)(one scene for one man and one woman) / Jules Feiffer = 256 HAROLD AND MAUDE (one scene for one man and one woman) / Colin Higgins = 266 THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (one scene for two men)(one scene for one man and one woman) / Larry McMurtry ; Peter Bogdonovich = 271 LAST TANGO IN PARIS (one scene for one man and one woman)(one scene for two men) / Bernardo Bertolucci ; Franco Arcalli = 280 SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY (one scene for two women) / Penelope Gilliatt = 288 MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ (two scenes for one man and one woman) / John Cassavetes = 293 SAVE THE TIGER (one scene for one man and one woman)(one scene for two men) / Steve Shagan = 307 THE WAY WE WERE (one scene for one man and one woman) / Arthur Laurents = 321 ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (one scene for two women) / Robert Getchell = 327 CHINATOWN (one scene for one man and one woman)(one scene for two men) / Robert Towne = 333 DOG DAY AFTERNOON (one scene for one man and one woman) / Frank Pierson = 346 SHAMPOO (one scene for one man and one woman)(one scene for two men) / Robert Towne ; Warren Beatty = 352 NETWORK (one scene for one man and one woman) / Paddy Chayefsky = 364 ROCKY (one scene for one man and one woman)(one scene for two men) / Sylvester Stallone = 371 THE SEVEN PER-CENT SOLUTION (one scene for two men) / Nicholas Meyer = 381 ANNIE HALL (one scene for one man and one woman) / Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman = 388 JULIA (one scene for two women) / Alvin Sargent = 398 SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (three scenes for one man and one woman) / Norman Wexler ; script by Nik Cohn = 408 THE TURNING POINT (one scene for two women) / Arthur Laurents = 422 AN UNMARRIED WOMAN (two scenes for one man and one woman)(one scene for two women) / Paul Mazursky = 431 WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN? (one scene for one man and one woman)(one scene for two men) / Judith Roscoe = 443 ORDINARY PEOPLE (one scene for one man and one woman) / Alvin Sargent = 457 Sample Scripts = 463 Sources = 468 Acknowledgments = 472 Personal Acknowledgments = 476

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