Teamed With Genius Summary

Berners hires Pat Hobby to help an English playwright write a screenplay for the studio. The playwright, Rene Wilcox, has never written a film before, so Pat feels somewhat superior to him. Pat tries for two days to get Wilcox to work, but the man does nothing but sleep all day. Then one day Wilcox comes to Pat and tells him he has finished the script on his own, working through the night. Wilcox will not show it to Pat, however, feeling that he does not need Pat's help. Pat writes a fake note to Wilcox, claiming his brothers have been killed in the war in order to get Wilcox out of his office. At the same time, Pat has the secretary steal the script for Pat to read. Instead of simply reading the script, however, Pat makes several...