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  2. Calder Willingham - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. The Strange One - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. End as a Man - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. The Graduate - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Rambling Rose (film) - Wikipedia

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    Rambling Rose was directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Calder Willingham (adapted from his own 1972 novel of the same name). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Laura Dern and Diane Ladd , daughter and mother in real life, were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress , respectively, making them the first mother-daughter duo ...

  7. Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

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    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.

  8. Stanley Kubrick's unrealized projects - Wikipedia

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    Kubrick was enthusiastic about the novel and hired novelist Calder Willingham to write a screenplay; however, Hays Code restrictions hindered the realization of the project. [1] The script, once thought to be lost, was found in 2018 and is nearly complete, enough that it could be developed by filmmakers. [2]

  9. Thieves Like Us (film) - Wikipedia

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    Thieves Like Us is a 1974 American crime film, set in the United States of the 1930s. It was directed by Robert Altman and starred Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall.The film was based on the novel of the same name by Edward Anderson, which also supplied source material for the 1948 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.