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The Towering Inferno was released theatrically December 16, 1974. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and earned around $203.3 million, making it the highest-grossing film of 1974. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning three: Best Song, Best Cinematography and Best Editing.
Maureen Therese McGovern (born July 27, 1949) is an American singer and Broadway actress, well known for her renditions of the songs "The Morning After" from the 1972 film The Poseidon Adventure; "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno in 1974; [1] [2] and her No. 1 Billboard adult contemporary hit "Different Worlds", the theme song from the television series Angie.
She appeared in several of her husband's TV series and movies through to 1986. [3] Appearances include City Beneath the Sea, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. [4] Following his death in 1991 she remained on the board of Irwin Allen Productions. [3]
Susan Blakely was born on September 7, 1948, in Frankfurt, Germany, the daughter of an Army colonel. [2] After she attended University of Texas at El Paso, she moved to New York and studied acting with Warren Robertson, Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner [3] at the Neighborhood Playhouse [4] and later studied with Charles Conrad and Warner Loughlin in Los Angeles.
February 7 – Blazing Saddles is released in the United States. May 28 - Joseph E. Levine, the founder of Embassy Pictures, resigns as president. June 20 – Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski and featured Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston, is released to worldwide critical acclaim.
In 1974, Flannery starred in the disaster film The Towering Inferno directed by John Guillermin and starring Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and earned around $203.3 million, making it the highest-grossing film of 1974 .
He looked for an alternative and found a similar story in The Glass Inferno. Rather than produce competing movies, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. agreed to coproduce The Towering Inferno with a script based on both novels and a $14 million budget. It was the first time two major studios made a film together, splitting the costs.
Towering Inferno may refer to: The Towering Inferno , 1974 disaster movie Towering Inferno (band) , an English experimental music group which released the 1993 album Kaddish