The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild (65 page)

Salkowitz, Sy,
169

Salt, Waldo,
70
,
93
,
259

Sanford and Son
,
4
,
157
,
181
,
184

Sargent, Alvin,
6
,
159
,
179
,
259

Sarris, Andrew,
161

Saturday Night Live
,
219

Savage Grace
,
17

Savel, Dava,
24
,
183
,
259

Saving Grace
,
222

Sayles, John,
157
,
202
,
259

Scandal
,
236

Scarface
,
37

Scarlet Street
,
36

Schamus, James,
260
,
268

Schary, Dore,
42
,
55
,
89
,
121
,
260
,
277n99

Schatz, Thomas,
152
,
266

Scheft, Bill,
218
,
221
,
260

Schenk family,
96

Schiff, Robin,
208–209
,
260

Schiller, Robert,
127
,
138
,
178
,
260

Schneider, Abe,
144

Schrader, Paul,
4
,
172
,
260

Schubert, Bernard,
35–36
,
260

Schulberg, Budd,
75
,
89
,
107
,
260

Schultheiss, John,
38

Schwartz, Nancy Lynn,
46
,
56–57
,
74
,
95
,
110
,
266

Schwartz, Sherwood,
157
,
169
,
260

Scorsese, Martin,
164
,
260

Scott, Adrian,
69
,
107
,
111
,
115
,
260

Scott, Joan,
107
,
111
,
115
,
260

Screen Actors Guild (SAG),
10
,
11
,
46
,
48
,
49–50
,
57–58
,
68
,
70
,
86
; postwar era,
115
,
142
,
144
,
145–146
,
187
,
196
,
200
,
209
; and 2007–2008 strike,
215–216
,
220
,
225
,
228

Screen Cartoonists Guild,
70
,
80

Screen Directors Guild,
see
Directors Guild of America

Screen Gems,
80
,
140

Screen Guilds’ Magazine
(journal),
31
,
53

Screen Office Employees Guild,
81

Screen Playwrights (SP),
32
,
54–61
,
68
,
93
,
121

Screen Producers Guild,
152
,
169–170

Screen Publicists Guild,
81
,
277n123

Screen Set Designers Guild,
81

Screen Writer, The
(
TSW
),
66
,
72–73
,
85–95
,
96
,
102
,
103
,
240

screenwriters: definitions and characteristics,
1
,
2–3
,
6
,
8–9
,
11
,
20
,
233–235
; job insecurity,
35
,
38
,
40
,
49
,
85
,
88
,
172
; labor dispute dilemmas,
82–84
,
226
; output,
159
; outsider status,
19–21
,
34
,
234–235
; producers’ attitudes toward,
1
,
6
,
13
,
14
,
35
,
40
,
44
,
47
,
56
,
57
,
73–74
,
96
; public awareness of,
155–156
,
164
,
192
,
211
,
218–219
,
238
,
299n36
; salaries and compensation,
12
,
17
,
44
,
46
,
56
,
65
,
83
,
91
,
122
,
126
,
138
,
140–143
,
147–149
,
186–187
,
197
; screenwriter-plus role,
239
; on sets,
89
,
111
; women and minorities,
19
,
21–24
,
25
,
45
,
235–237
; working conditions,
8
,
19
,
35
,
39–42
,
43–44
,
49
,
59
,
233
; working during blacklist era,
109–14
; World War II mobilization,
72
,
74–79
,
281n71
.
See also
authorship issues; credits; television writers

Screen Writers Guild (SWG): the AAA and,
91–93
; blacklist era,
67
,
71–73
,
99–107
,
115
,
118
; Credit Restoration Committee (CRC),
115
; CSU strike and,
80–85
; formation,
2
,
20
,
25
,
28–34
,
44–46
,
273n5
; functions and role,
31
,
33
,
44
,
51
,
60–63
,
72
,
95
,
101–102
,
115
,
121
; gender bias,
21–22
; growth and amalgamation,
46–54
; HUAC investigations and,
94
,
95
,
97–98
,
99
,
101–106
,
109
,
132
; loyalty oath proposal,
104–105
; negotiating first contract with studios,
60–65
,
159
,
277n123
; opposition to NIRA,
48
; political positions,
18
,
97
,
101–102
,
104
,
106
; producers’ opposition to,
47–61
; pseudonym policy,
111
; SP challenge,
54–60
; television and,
117–118
,
122
,
123–124
,
126–127
,
128–129
,
132
,
134
,
150
; World War II era,
75–76
,
84–85
,
281n71
.
See also Screen Writer, The
; screenwriters; strikes; Writers Guild of America

Scriptnotes
(podcast),
239

script writing,
3–8
,
35–39
,
167
; multi-authored scripts,
4
,
35
,
40
,
42
; script doctors,
6
,
17
; spec scripts,
7
,
63
,
119
,
156
,
167

Searchers, The
,
116

Seaton, George,
88
,
99
,
260

Selznick, David O.,
27
,
35
,
161

Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security,
130

Sergeant York
,
92
,
94

series,
see
television series

Serling, Rod,
125
,
145
,
152
,
260

Serpico
,
70

Service Employees International Union,
228

77 Sunset Strip
,
145
,
146

sex, lies and videotape
,
202

Shandling, Garry,
235
,
260

Shavelson, Melville,
83
,
123
,
155
,
260

She Done Him Wrong
,
36

Sheehan, Winfield,
31

Sheldon, Sidney,
186
,
260–261

Sherman Antitrust Act (1890),
112

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
,
36

Shield, The
,
219

Ship, Reuben,
129
,
261

showrunners: defined,
197–198
,
239
; role in 2007–2008 strike,
218–219
,
226

Showtime cable network,
211

Sid Caesar Show, The
,
136

Silcox, Louise,
45

Silliphant, Stirling,
14
,
139–140
,
166
,
171
,
261

Silverman, Fred,
174
,
175
,
177

Silverman, Treva,
180
,
261

Simon, David,
237–238
,
261

Simon, Neil,
5
,
136
,
261

Simpsons, The
,
204

Sinatra, Frank,
100

Sinclair, Upton,
47–48

Singing Nun, The
,
10

Singleton, John,
202
,
261

Sklar, Jason and Randy,
229
,
261

Sklar, Robert,
267

Skouras, Spyros,
144

Slackers
,
203

Slocum, Chuck,
191
,
201
,
212

Smith, Kevin,
202
,
261

Smith, Patricia Falken,
171
,
261

“Smithee, Alan,”
161

Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The
,
167

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
,
80

Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers,
71

Soderbergh, Steven,
202
,
261

Solomon, Ed,
219
,
261

Solondz, Todd,
202
,
261

Some Like It Hot
,
39
,
101

Song of Nevada
,
73

Song of Russia
,
78–79
,
106

Song of the South
,
92
,
97

Sorkin, Aaron,
235
,
261

Sorrell, Herbert,
80
,
81
,
85

Souls for Sale
,
54

Sound of Music, The
,
189

Southern, Terry,
139
,
261

SP,
see
Screen Playwrights

Spartacus
,
112
,
114

Spellbound
,
37
,
161

Spelling, Aaron,
166
,
177
,
261

Spielberg, Steven,
192
,
261

Spigel, Lynn,
117

Spigelgass, Leonard,
101
,
104
,
261
,
287n38

Stagecoach
,
36

Stage Door
,
54

Staiger, Janet,
89

Stallings, Laurence,
36
,
261

Stander, Arthur,
134
,
261

Stand Up and Fight
,
72

Stapleton, Maureen,
173

Star Is Born, A
,
38

Star Trek
,
168
,
189

Star Wars
,
157
,
173

Steinberg, Norman,
234
,
262

Steinkellner, Bill,
183
,
262

Steinkellner, Cheri,
3
,
167
,
182–183
,
185
,
190
,
262

St. Elsewhere
,
178

Stepfather II
,
195

Stephen J. Cannell Productions,
177

Stern, Andy,
228

Stern, Leonard,
127
,
136
,
169
,
262

Stevens, John Paul,
170

Stewart, Donald Ogden,
29
,
42
,
57
,
262

Stewart, Mike,
5
,
262

Stoddard, Brandon,
174

Stone, Noreen,
180
,
262

Stone, Oliver,
164
,
262

Story Analysts (union),
81

story notes,
238

Stout, Rex,
130
,
279n25

streaming media,
141
,
198–199
,
212
,
225
,
227
,
228–229
,
302n98

Streetcar Named Desire, A
,
107

strikes,
11
,
81–82
,
85
,
158
,
159
,
196–197
,
241–242
,
301nn74–75
; 1941 Disney animators,
80
; 1945 CSU,
11
,
73
,
80–85
; 1952 ALA/SWG/RWG,
130–131
; 1959 WGA,
142–143
; 1960 WGA,
2
,
8
,
11
,
123
,
144–149
,
169
; 1973 WGA,
168–169
; 1980–1981 SAG–AFTRA,
185–187
,
186
,
188
; 1985 WGA,
158
,
188–189
,
190
; 1987 CBS/Capital Cities/ABC,
189
; 1988 WGA,
190–191
; 2006
America’s Next Top Model
,
213–214
,
225
; 2007–2008 WGA,
2
,
9
,
11
,
20
,
171
,
199
,
211–212
,
218–228
,
222
,
229–230
,
239
,
268
,
302n98