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God's Little Acre is a 1958 American comedy-drama film of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel of the same name. [3] [4] [5] It was directed by Anthony Mann and shot in black and white by cinematographer Ernest Haller. Although the film was not released until August 1958, its production schedule was indicated as September 11 to late October 1957. [6]
Active on screen for over three decades, his film roles include Blackboard Jungle (1955), King Creole (1958), God's Little Acre (1958), Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), and The Bad News Bears (1976). Morrow continued acting up to his death during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) when he and two child actors were killed in a helicopter ...
God's Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell about a dysfunctional farming family in Georgia obsessed with sex and wealth. The novel's sexual themes were so controversial that the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice asked a New York state court to censor it.
In 1958, she was cast as Darlin' Jill in the film version of God's Little Acre, based on Erskine Caldwell's novel. The film marked the screen debut of Tina Louise and also starred Robert Ryan, Jack Lord, Buddy Hackett, Aldo Ray, and Vic Morrow.
Louise is the last surviving cast member. She began her career on stage in the mid-1950s before landing her breakthrough role in 1958 drama film God's Little Acre for which she received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. Louise had starring roles in The Trap, The Hangman, Day of the Outlaw, and For Those Who Think Young.
In 1958, Lord co-starred as Buck Walden in God's Little Acre, [19] the film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel. Lord was the first actor to play the character Felix Leiter [20] in the James Bond film series, introduced in 1962 in the first Bond film, Dr. No.
Davis Roberts (born Robert A. Davis, March 7, 1917 – July 18, 1993) was an American character actor whose career spanned five decades, from the late 1940s until just before his death in 1993. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He started out making films in the 1940s and 1950s and expanded into television work in the following decades.
Westcott was born on New Year's Day, 1928. She was the daughter of singer Hazel McArthur [5] and Warner Bros. studio actor Gordon Westcott. [6] Her father died from a polo accident when she was seven years old. [5] When she was two years old, Westcott appeared in vaudeville with her mother.