AFI FEST 2009: SOMETHING’S GONNA LIVE, NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Cary Grant in North by Northwest
Among the highlights of AFI FEST 2009 is the Nov. 2 screening of AFI Conservatory Alumnus Daniel Raim’s documentary Something’s Gonna Live, which profiles several behind-the-scenes Hollywood veterans — most of whom have already passed away — including production designers Robert Boyle (who turned 100 this past Oct. 10), Henry Bumstead (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting), Harold Michelson (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Mommie Dearest, Dick Tracy), and Albert Nozaki (When Worlds Collide, The War of the Worlds, The Ten Commandments), in addition to cinematographers Conrad L. Hall (In Cold Blood, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Road to Perdition) and Haskell Wexler (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, In the Heat of [...]
by Andre Soares | October 26, 2009
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Tags: AFI FEST, AFI FEST 2009, Alfred Hitchcock, Conrad L. Hall, Daniel Raim, Eva Marie Saint, Film Festivals, Harold Michelson, Haskell Wexler, Henry Bumstead, Los Angeles Screenings, Martin Landau, North by Northwest, Robert Boyle, Something's Gonna Live
Elia Kazan’s Oscar Nominated Actors
Elia Kazan
24 Acting Nominations
(s) supporting category
(*) Academy Award winner
Elia Kazan: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
1945
James Dunn (s) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn*
(Additionally, Peggy Ann Garner won a special "juvenile" Oscar for her 1945 performances, including A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
1947
Gregory Peck Gentleman’s Agreement
Dorothy McGuire Gentleman’s Agreement
Celeste Holm (s) Gentleman’s Agreement *
Anne Revere (s) Gentleman’s Agreement
1949
Lily white Fox star Jeanne Crain was nominated for an Oscar for trying (and failing) to pass for a light-skinned "black" (read: mixed ancestry) girl trying to pass for a lily white girl. Fellow nominee Ethel Waters comforts Crain: "You cayn’t act, but you’re darned purty." (Actually, Crain could be excellent. Check out Henry King’s nostalgic Margie.)
Jeanne Crain Pinky (co-directed with John Ford)
Ethel Barrymore [...]
by Andre Soares | January 27, 2007
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Tags: A Streetcar Named Desire, Academy Awards, Classic Movies, East of Eden, Elia Kazan, Ethel Waters, Eva Marie Saint, Film Awards, James Dean, Jeanne Crain, Jo Van Fleet, Marlon Brando, Pinky
A HATFUL OF RAIN – Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray
A Hatful of Rain (1957)
Direction: Fred Zinnemann
Screenplay: Michael V. Gazzo, Alfred Hayes, Carl Foreman (originally uncredited); from Gazzo’s play
Cast: Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan, Henry Silva
Based on a play by Michael V. Gazzo, A Hatful of Rain is an interesting attempt at injecting "adult" subject matters — in this case, the evils of drug addiction — into Hollywood movies. "Interesting," however, does not mean either successful or compelling.
Despite real, unromantic New York locations and Joseph MacDonald’s beautifully realistic black-and-white camera work, this Fred Zinnemann-directed melodrama feels anachronistically stagy because of the overall artificiality of the dialogue and the hammy theatricality of the performances — with Eva Marie Saint as the sole naturalistic exception.
Somewhat revolutionary [...]
by Andre Soares | October 24, 2004
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Tags: A Hatful of Rain, Anthony Franciosa, Classic Movies, Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Film Reviews, Fred Zinnemann, Lloyd Nolan, Michael V. Gazzo, Oscar 1957, Oscar Movies
Best Films – 1954
Considered by many one of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s lesser films, The Barefoot Contessa is a classy, intelligently written, and generally well acted morality tale. Inspired by the life of Rita Hayworth (née Margarita Cansino), the film’s plot revolves around the tragic fate of Maria Vargas, a great, earthy beauty who becomes a Hollywood movie star. Besides Jack Cardiff’s beautiful cinematography and Mario Nascimbene’s melancholy score, The Barefoot Contessa offers Ava Gardner in top form — both as a star and as an actress. Humphrey Bogart offers solid support as a film director, while director-screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve, 5 Fingers, Sleuth) handles the proceedings with his usual sophisticated flair.
FILM
The Barefoot Contessa
Hobson’s Choice
Johnny Guitar
The Long, Long Trailer [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: Ava Gardner, Barbara Stanwyck, Best Films, Brenda De Banzie, Classic Movies, Dorothy Dandridge, Edward Underdown, Eva Marie Saint, Executive Suite, Fredric March, Lenore J. Coffee, Magnificent Obsession, Mercedes McCambridge, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Barefoot Contessa, Woman's World
