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Vera Cruz was also the first production to use the SuperScope widescreen process, which was designed to achieve anamorphic prints from standard flat 35mm negatives. [13] Shot at a conventional 1.37:1 aspect ratio, the film was cropped to 2:1 in post-production, given a CinemaScope -compatible (2x) squeeze, and blown up to normal frame height.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Caine Mutiny: Edward Dmytryk: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson: War, Drama: Columbia; based on Herman Wouk novel; 7 Oscar nominations
In 1950, Darcel had a Vaudeville act, which was panned by at least one reviewer. About Darcel's performance 5 May 1950, at the Strand in New York, the Billboard review said: "Denise Darcel showed her well-stacked chassis ... but her heavily accented English sounded like so much gibberish; it got laughs instead of attention. ... her singing is inadequate, her over-use of hands and arms is ...
January 6 – Anthony Minghella, English film director and screenwriter (d. 2008) January 6 - John Sparkes, Welsh actor and comedian; January 19 - Katey Sagal, American actress and singer-songwriter; January 20 - Ken Page, American actor and cabaret singer (d. 2024) January 25 - Sean Lawlor, Irish character actor and playwright (d. 2009)
Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick auteur [1] working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood, he directed mainly films noir, war movies, westerns and dark melodramas with Gothic overtones.
In 1956, she participated in the film Man from Del Rio (1956), opposite Anthony Quinn, one of the few Hollywood movies to have Mexican actors as main stars. [10] Later she acted in Westerns Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957) with Barry Sullivan, and The Badlanders (1958), with Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine.
In five years, at two pictures a year, at 25%! Think of what she could have made! But she didn't make pictures! She took two or three suspensions! She got mixed up with different characters! Unpredictable!" [51]: 163 Years after her film career had ended and long after Cohn had died, Hayworth still resented her treatment by both him and Columbia.
He was then cast as George Taggart, "a former gunfighter who has become a U.S. marshal", in the 1963–1964 NBC/WB series Temple Houston. [ 19 ] In 1966 Jack Elam was cast in his first comedic role by Paramount Pictures , playing Hank in the Western film The Night of the Grizzly starring Clint Walker . [ 20 ]