Joe""s treatment of the screenplay is criticized by clean-cut, Paramount script reader Betty Schaefer (Nancy Olson) - she denounces it in "a two page synopsis" as being written "from hunger," "a rehash of something that wasn""t very good to begin with," and "flat and trite." She complains about being despised and being made to feel more and more inferior by the servant help:Her whole manner.Madge plans to have Jerry meet, for match-making purposes, a "young friend" and "there""s something in the air.It was written by the husband-wife team of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin (the recipients of the film""s sole Academy Award nomination).