So, I've spent the past week brainstorming whether a fictional girl or an Irene Dunne bio-pic would be the best solution to the time constraint of this class and also what would be appropriate to pull from a real person's life.
I hope I've found that solution. I am thinking that a situational drama/comedy revolving around a woman trying to make it in Hollywood in the 1930s while carrying on a bi-coastal marriage simultaneously would make both an interesting plot and hearken back to Irene in an homage that doesn't really have anything else to do with her. Tonally, this film would be one in which Irene might have starred in her hey-day.
I have the treatment mostly, I just want to clean it up and I will post it (hopefully) early tomorrow.
The summary, however, is as follows:
The story centers on Isabelle ("Belle" for short, though her husband, Bob, calls her "Izzy"). She quits show-business in order to marry the love of her life, pediatrician Bob, but when Hollywood comes calling, she splits to the other side of the continent.
They carry on lengthy telephone conversations, but Bob really wants her at home with him in New York. As a star of the silver screen, Belle has to deal with an infatuated co-star, David, who threatens to break up the happy Belle/Bob marriage, and the craziness of keeping her marriage a secret by order of the studio.
In the end, Belle realizes that her marriage is more important to her than all Hollywood has to offer, but Bob selflessly gives up his practice to be with her in Hollywood, and she gives him the consolation that he can doctor their own children.
Good night and God Bless.
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One thing to think about is that you're after the kind of film Irene would have appeared in, but... no one makes films like that anymore, do they? You need to be a little careful that you're not writing the best 30s script, when we're living in the new millennium.
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