Eddie Dykes (James Young)Lt.Ken Erickson (aka "Mac" or "Macpherson") (Robert Nichols)Ned "Scotty" Scott (Douglas Spencer), a bespectacled Anchorage, AK newspaper journalist, the film""s comic-relief character (with a running gag about being perpetually stymied and not getting his story or picture scoop); at one time, he was a front-line war correspondentHaving just arrived, Scotty admitted that he was scouting out his next report: "Looking for a story."" All right.The Public Wants a Girl, and this time, I""m gonna give ""em what they want.Undaunted but frustrated, the entrepreneurial, jungle filmmaker promises them he will make the "greatest picture in he world, something that nobody""s ever seen or heard of.Miniver), Best B/W Cinematography (Ted Tetzlaff), Best Editing (Otto Meyer), Best Score (Frederick Hollander), Best Original Story (Sidney Harmon), Best Screenplay (Sidney Buchman - who was blacklisted in the 50s, and novelist Irwin Shaw), and Best B/W Interior Decoration.The deceased had been married o 27 year-old Broadway torch singer and actress Libby Holman for less than a year.