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Calder Baynard Willingham Jr. (December 23, 1922 – February 19, 1995) [1] was an American novelist and screenwriter. Before the age of 30, after three novels and a collection of short stories, The New Yorker was describing Willingham as having “fathered modern black comedy,” [2] his signature a dry, straight-faced humor, made funnier by its concealed comic intent.
The Strange One is a 1957 American film noir about students faced with an ethical dilemma in a military college in the Southern United States.It was directed by Jack Garfein, produced by Sam Spiegel, and was adapted from a novel and stage play by Calder Willingham called End as a Man.
The 1947 novel End as a Man by Calder Willingham; The 1957 film End as a Man based on that novel and better known as The Strange One This page was last edited on 30 ...
The Graduate is a 1967 American independent [6] romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols [7] and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, [8] based on the 1963 novella by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The film tells the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate ...
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were (with a few exceptions noted below ...
HBO Max is developing a series adaptation of the upcoming Stacy Willingham novel “A Flicker in the Dark” that hails from Emma Stone and Dave McCary’s Fruit Tree and A24, Variety has learned ...
Luke Wilson is stepping back into the world of Legally Blonde!. The actor, 53, made a surprise appearance on the Halloween episode of the Todayshow on Thursday, Oct. 31, where he reprised his role ...
The play by Robert Anderson: Airport: George Seaton: The novel by Arthur Hailey: Catch-22: Buck Henry: The novel by Joseph Heller: The Great White Hope: Howard Sackler: The play by Howard Sackler: Little Big Man: Calder Willingham: The novel by Thomas Berger: Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium M*A*S*H: Ring Lardner Jr.