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The National Board of Review Award for Best Film is one of the annual awards given since 1932 by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. [1] Winners
Historians frequently quote portions from the French philosopher and playwright, Jean-François Marmontel's entry for "parterre", published in the 1776 supplement to Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, which declares, "the parterre is the best of all judges". [19]
Albert Horton Foote Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for To Kill a Mockingbird, which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee, [1] and the film, Tender Mercies (1983).
Jorden's work with parterre box also includes a podcast, Unnatural Acts of Opera. Parterre Box and Jorden have been featured in numerous media publications, including Opera News magazine, The Advocate, and The New York Times. [3] He also worked for a time as a web producer for Fox News. [4] Until 2013, he was employed full-time as a legal ...
The Best of Everything is a 1959 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco from a screenplay by Edith Sommer and Mann Rubin, based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Rona Jaffe. [2] It stars Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer, Diane Baker, Brian Aherne, Robert Evans, Louis Jourdan, and Joan Crawford. The film follows the ...
The movie leaps around in time, which is all good, yet it never acquires a true forward momentum as a narrative. Our empathy, and curiosity, keep crashing up against the rocky shoals of enervation.
The Best Man is a 1964 American political drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with a screenplay by Gore Vidal based on his 1960 play of the same title.Starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Lee Tracy, the film details the seamy political maneuverings behind the nomination of a presidential candidate at their party's national convention.
Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers in Stage Door. Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn) moves into the Footlights Club, [3] a theatrical boarding house in New York.Her polished manners and superior attitude make her no friends among the rest of the aspiring actresses living there, particularly her new roommate, flippant, cynical dancer Jean Maitland (Ginger Rogers).