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Mighty Joe Young (also known as Mr. Joseph Young of Africa and The Great Joe Young) is a 1949 American black and white fantasy film distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and produced by the same creative team responsible for King Kong (1933). The film was produced by Merian C. Cooper, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, and written by Ruth Rose.
Mighty Joe Young: 1949: 1989: Turner Entertainment [454] Mike Fright: 1934: 1994: RHI Entertainment, Inc. [455] Mildred Pierce: 1945: 1990: Turner Entertainment [456] The Miracle of the Bells: 1948: 1988: Republic Pictures [457] Miracle on 34th Street: 1947: 1985: 20th Century Fox (Color Systems Technology [4]) [458] 1993: 20th Century Fox ...
Moore was borrowed by RKO to star in Mighty Joe Young (1949), a film about a giant gorilla that won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. George Pal cast her in The Great Rupert (1950) with Jimmy Durante. [4] Moore in The Great Rupert (1950) At Columbia, Moore co-starred with Mickey Rooney in He's a Cockeyed Wonder (1950).
Pete Peterson, who changed to this name in 1945, worked as a grip at RKO studios in Hollywood in the 1940s and was assigned to work on Mighty Joe Young (1949) lighting the miniature sets where technical creator Willis H. O'Brien and his first technician Ray Harryhausen were creating the stop-motion animation of the title character.
Notable films in which he performed include: a featured role in the 1947 film noir Dark Passage, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; [5] Mighty Joe Young (1949); [6] the Abbott and Costello vehicle, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951); [7] the 1952 western, Springfield Rifle, starring Gary Cooper; [8] and Howard Hawks ...
Holiday Affair (1949) Mighty Joe Young (1949) The Window (1949) Easy Living (1949) My Friend Irma (1949) The Secret Fury (1950) The White Tower (1950) Vendetta (1950) Where Danger Lives (1950) Gambling House (1951) Flying Leathernecks (1951) Fixed Bayonets (1951) Sealed Cargo (1951) Operation Secret (1952) This is Cinerama (uncredited) (1952 ...
Mighty Joe Young may refer to: Mighty Joe Young; Mighty Joe Young; Mighty Joe Young (musician), blues musician; the original name for Stone Temple Pilots, who ...
Later in that decade, Armstrong played another Carl Denham-like leading character role as "Max O'Hara" in 1949's Mighty Joe Young. This film was another stop-motion animation giant gorilla fantasy, made by the same King Kong team of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.