genre the devil and miss jones
A film director is a person who directs the making of a film . Generally , a film director controls a film ' s artistic and ___MASK60___ aspects , and visualizes the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision . The director has a key role in choosing the cast members , production design , and the creative aspects of filmmaking . Under European Union ___MASK50___ , the director is viewed as the author of the film . The Devil and Miss Jones is a 1941 ___MASK36___ starring Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn . Directed by Sam Wood and scripted by Norman Krasna , the film was the product of an independent collaboration between Krasna and producer Frank Ross ( Jean Arthur ' s husband ) . Their short - lived production company released two films through RKO Radio Pictures ( Miss Jones and 1943 ' s A Lady Takes a Chance ) . The film was well received by critics upon its release and garnered Academy Award nominations for Coburn and Krasna . ___MASK10___ is a ___MASK8___ of film in which the main emphasis is on humor . These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement and most often work by exaggerating characteristics for humorous effect . Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending ( black comedy being an exception ). One of the oldest genres in film , some of the very first silent movies were comedies , as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions , without requiring sound . When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s , comedy films took another swing , as laughter could result from ___MASK37___ situations but also ___MASK66___ . Theatre or ___MASK99___ is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers , typically actors or actresses , to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place , often a stage . The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture , speech , ___MASK88___ , music , and ___MASK98___ . Elements of art , such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality , presence and immediacy of the experience . The specific place of the performance is also named by the word " theatre " as derived from the Ancient Greek  ( théatron , " a place for viewing "), itself from  ( theáomai , " to see ", " to watch ", " to observe "). Princess O ' Rourke is a 1943 ___MASK4___ film . The film was directed and written by Norman Krasna ( in Krasna ' s directorial debut ), and starred Olivia de Havilland , Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn . Krasna won the 1944 Academy Award for Writing : Original Screenplay . An actor ( or actress for females ; see terminology ) is a person who portrays a character in a performance . The actor performs " in the flesh " in the traditional medium of the theatre , or in modern mediums such as film , ___MASK15___ , and television . The analogous Greek term is , literally " one who answers ". The actor ' s interpretation of their role pertains to the role played , whether based on a real person or fictional character . Interpretation occurs even when the actor is " playing themselves ", as in some forms of experimental ___MASK13___ , or , more commonly ; to act , is to create , a character in performance . Charles Douville Coburn ( June 19 , 1877  August 30 , 1961 ) was an American film and theatre actor . Best known for his work in comedies , Coburn received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1943 ' s " The More the Merrier ". Phil Silvers ( May 11 , 1911  November 1 , 1985 ) was an American entertainer and ___MASK10___ actor , known as " The King of Chutzpah ". He is best known for starring in " The Phil Silvers Show ", a 1950s sitcom set on a U . S . Army post in which he played Master Sergeant Ernest ( Ernie ) Bilko . The More the Merrier is a 1943 American ___MASK36___ made by Columbia Pictures which makes fun of the housing shortage during World ___MASK35___ II , especially in Washington , D . C . The picture stars Jean Arthur , Joel McCrea and Charles Coburn . The movie was directed by George Stevens . The film was written by Richard Flournoy , Lewis R . Foster , Frank Ross , and Robert Russell , from " Two ' s a Crowd ", an original story by Garson Kanin ( uncredited ). A ___MASK21___ writer , screenwriter for short , scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting , writing screenplays on which ___MASK3___ media such as films , television programs , comics or video games are based . Samuel Grosvenor " Sam " Wood ( July 10 , 1883  September 22 , 1949 ) was an American film director and producer , who was best known for directing such Hollywood hits as " A Night at the ___MASK28___ ", " A Day at the Races ", " Goodbye , Mr . Chips ", and " The Pride of the Yankees ". He was also involved in a few acting and writing projects . A film , also called a movie , motion picture , theatrical film or photoplay , is a series of still images which , when shown on a screen , creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon . This ___MASK41___ causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession . The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry . A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera ; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional ___MASK82___ techniques ; by means of CGI and computer ___MASK82___ ; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects . Norman Krasna ( November 7 , 1909  November 1 , 1984 ) was an American screenwriter , playwright , producer , and film director . He is best known for penning screwball comedies which centered on a case of mistaken identity . Krasna also directed three films during a forty - year career in Hollywood . He garnered four Academy Award screenwriting nominations , winning once for 1943 ' s " Princess O ' Rourke ", a film he also directed . A Lady Takes a Chance is a 1943 American ___MASK4___ film directed by William A . Seiter and starring Jean Arthur and John Wayne . Written by Robert Ardrey and based on a story by Jo Swerling , the film is about a New York working girl who travels to the American West on a bus tour and meets and falls in love with a handsome rodeo cowboy . The film was produced for RKO Radio Pictures by Frank Ross , who was Arthur ' s husband at the time . The supporting cast features comedian Phil Silvers . Black ___MASK10___ or dark ___MASK10___ is a ___MASK26___ style that makes light of subjects that are generally considered serious or taboo . Literary critics have associated black ___MASK10___ and black humor with authors as early as the ancient Greeks with Aristophanes . Black ___MASK10___ corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor . Hollywood (, informally Tinseltown ) is an ethnically diverse , densely populated , relatively low - income neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles , California . It is notable as the home of the U . S . film industry , including several of its historic studios , and its name has come to be a shorthand ___MASK84___ for the industry and the people in it . Robert Ardrey ( October 16 , 1908  January 14 , 1980 ) was an American playwright , screenwriter and ___MASK87___ writer . After a Broadway and Hollywood career he returned to his academic training in ___MASK49___ and the behavioral sciences in the 1950s .