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recounted that Walker never drove a car, so his wife had to drive him to work every day. But
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A turning point was reached at Roach in 1931 with the arrival of a new general manager, Henry
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On Roach's "Lot of Fun", script development usually started with meetings among the gag men, who would develop what was known as an "action script": the outline of the story and a description of the scenes and some of the sight gags, which generally would run three to six legal-size pages. This
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had an early-career one-day trial as an assistant writer to Walker, whose only reaction to
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