Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.
Designing Woman was written for the screen.
Color can do anything that black-and-white can.
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.