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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; William Wyler</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/william-wyler/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>AFI Life Achievement Award Winners: From John Ford to Shirley MacLaine</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/afi-life-achievement-award-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/afi-life-achievement-award-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:00:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25312</guid> <description><![CDATA[Orson Welles in Welles' own Citizen Kane (top); Gregory Peck, Brock Peters in Robert Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird (middle); Barbra Streisand in William Wyler's Funny Girl (bottom) This list of AFI Life Achievement Award winners was culled from Wikipedia. The number on the right represents the honorees' age at the time of the award. Shirley MacLaine will be 78 next June 7. 1973 John [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/afi-life-achievement-award-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>William Wyler&#039;s Oscar-Nominated Actors: Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Barbra Streisand</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/william-wyler-oscar-nominated-actors/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/william-wyler-oscar-nominated-actors/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:41:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16678</guid> <description><![CDATA[William Wyler 36 Acting Nominations (s), supporting category (*) Academy Award winner William Wyler: Record-Setting Oscar Director for Actors &#160; 1936 Walter Huston (above, with Ruth Chatterton), Dodsworth * Walter Brennan (s), Come and Get It (Wyler replaced Howard Hawks, who received co-directing credit) Bonita Granville (s), These Three Maria Ouspenskaya (s), Dodsworth &#160; 1937 Claire Trevor (s), Dead End &#160; 1938 * Bette Davis, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/william-wyler-oscar-nominated-actors/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>William Wyler: Record-Setting Oscar Director for Actors &#8211; 36 Nominations</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/william-wyler-top-oscar-directors-for-actors-i/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/william-wyler-top-oscar-directors-for-actors-i/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:21:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/01/27/top-oscar-directors-for-actors-i-william-wyler/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Oscar nominee Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, The Letter William Wyler was one of the greatest film directors Hollywood &#8212; or any other film industry &#8212; has ever produced. Today, Wyler lacks the following of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Frank Capra, or even Howard Hawks most likely because, unlike Hitchcock, Ford, of Capra, Wyler never focused on a particular genre, while his films were hardly as [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/william-wyler-top-oscar-directors-for-actors-i/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE LITTLE FOXES Review &#8211; Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright d: William Wyler</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-little-foxes-bette-davis-william-wyler/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-little-foxes-bette-davis-william-wyler/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:34:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-little-foxes-bette-davis-william-wyler/</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE LITTLE FOXES (1941) Direction: William Wyler Screenplay: Lillian Hellman; from her play Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson, Dan Duryea, Patricia Collinge, Charles Dingle, Carl Benton Reid, John Marriott, Jessie Grayson, Russell Hicks Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Herbert Marshall, Bette Davis, The Little Foxes THE HANDS THAT BILKED AMERICA To not choose the revolutionary Citizen Kane as the Best Motion Picture [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-little-foxes-bette-davis-william-wyler/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE LETTER Review – Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson d: William Wyler</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-william-wyler-bette-davis/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-william-wyler-bette-davis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:56:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-william-wyler-bette-davis/</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE LETTER (1940) Direction: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Gale Sondergaard, Frieda Inescort, Sen Yung Screenplay: Howard Koch; from W. Somerset Maugham's 1927 play, itself based on a Maugham story found in the 1924 collection The Casuarina Tree Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Bette Davis, The Letter Directed by William Wyler and adapted by Howard Koch from W. Somerset Maugham's 1927 play, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/letter-william-wyler-bette-davis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gary Cooper on TCM: Controversial FRIENDLY PERSUASION, Tame MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gary-cooper-friendly-persuasion-mr-deeds-goes-to-town-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gary-cooper-friendly-persuasion-mr-deeds-goes-to-town-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 02:20:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25787</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jean Arthur, Gary Cooper, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Gary Cooper is the &#34;star of the evening&#34; on Turner Classic Movies. Frank Capra's messy Meet John Doe, which can never quite decide where it stands socially and politically, is on right now. The movie is made watchable by Cooper's and, especially, Barbara Stanwyck's performances. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town could've been just as messy as [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gary-cooper-friendly-persuasion-mr-deeds-goes-to-town-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Barbra Streisand in FUNNY GIRL: Restored Print at Academy Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbra-streisand-funny-girl-restored/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbra-streisand-funny-girl-restored/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:53:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25457</guid> <description><![CDATA[Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, Omar Sharif in William Wyler's Funny Girl A restored print of Funny Girl (1968), Barbra Streisand's film debut, will reignite the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar” series on Monday, November 15, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. &#34;Monday Nights with Oscar&#34; has been on hiatus for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/barbra-streisand-funny-girl-restored/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Olivia de Havilland on TCM: THE HEIRESS, THE SNAKE PIT</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/olivia-de-havilland-tcm-the-heiress-the-snake-pit/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/olivia-de-havilland-tcm-the-heiress-the-snake-pit/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:27:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25056</guid> <description><![CDATA[Montgomery Clift, Olivia de Havilland in William Wyler's The Heiress Twelve Olivia de Havilland movies will be presented on Turner Classic Movies on Friday, Aug. 27, as part of TCM's &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; series. [Olivia de Havilland schedule.] Nothing rare among the entries (e.g., The Charge of the Light Brigade, Dodge City, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The Male Animal, etc.) For [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/olivia-de-havilland-tcm-the-heiress-the-snake-pit/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>WUTHERING HEIGHTS Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/wuthering-heights-laurence-olivier-merle-oberon/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/wuthering-heights-laurence-olivier-merle-oberon/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:35:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=12914</guid> <description><![CDATA[The 1939 Best Picture nominee Wuthering Heights, directed by William Wyler, and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939.” The Wuthering Heights screening will take place on Monday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/wuthering-heights-laurence-olivier-merle-oberon/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Great Directors Series on Turner Classic Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/great-directors-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/great-directors-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:00:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10503</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre, Oskar Werner in François Truffaut's Jules et Jim In June, Turner Classic Movies' month-long series &#34;Great Directors&#34; will be celebrating the efforts of 52 films directors, from past and present, from Hollywood and overseas (though, as to be expected, mostly Hollywood). Among TCM's &#34;greats&#34; are, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford, but also Jacques Tourneur, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/great-directors-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1941</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1941/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1941/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:57:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4332</guid> <description><![CDATA[Orson Welles in Citizen Kane FILM Cheers for Miss Bishop d: Tay Garnett; scr: Sheridan Gibney, Adelaide Heilbron Citizen Kane d: Orson Welles; scr: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles The Devil and Miss Jones d: Sam Wood; scr: Norman Krasna Dumbo d: Ben Sharpsteen; scr: Joe Grant, Dick Huemer and others The Great Lie d: Edmund Goulding; scr: Lenore J. Coffee Here Comes Mr. Jordan [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1941/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1940</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:57:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4331</guid> <description><![CDATA[Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath FILM The Blue Bird d: Walter Lang; scr: Ernest Pascal The Grapes of Wrath d: John Ford; scr: Nunnally Johnson Kitty Foyle d: Sam Wood; scr: Dalton Trumbo The Letter d: William Wyler; scr: Howard Koch The Mark of Zorro d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: John Tainton Foote, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth Pinocchio d: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen; scr: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1938</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:16:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11619</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in You Can't Take It with You FILM The Adventures of Robin Hood d: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; scr: Seton I. Miller, Norman Reilly Raine Bringing Up Baby d: Howard Hawks; scr: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde Dramatic School d: Robert B. Sinclair; scr: Ernest Vajda, Mary McCall Jr. L'Etrange Monsieur Victor d: Jean Grémillon; scr: Albert Valentin, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1937</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1937/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1937/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:07:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11618</guid> <description><![CDATA[Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo in Camille FILM The Awful Truth d, scr: Leo McCarey Camille d: George Cukor; scr: Frances Marion, James Hilton, Zoe Akins The Hurricane d: John Ford; scr: Dudley Nichols, Oliver H. P. Garrett The Last of Mrs. Cheyney d: Richard Boleslawski; scr: Leon Gordon, Samson Raphaelson, Monckton Hoffe Lost Horizon d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin Night Must Fall d: Richard [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1937/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1936</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1936/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1936/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:57:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11617</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sacha Guitry in The Story of a Cheat FILM Follow the Fleet d: Mark Sandrich; scr: Dwight Taylor Fury d: Fritz Lang; scr: Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang Libeled Lady d: Jack Conway; scr: Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer Mr. Deeds Goes to Town d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin My Man Godfrey d: Gregory La Cava; scr: Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch Le Roman [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1936/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1935</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1935/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1935/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:01:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4334</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Clark Gable in China Seas FILM Alice Adams d: George Stevens; scr: Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner China Seas d: Tay Garnett; scr: Jules Furthman, James K. McGuinness The Gay Deception d: William Wyler; scr: Stephen Avery, Don Hartman A Tale of Two Cities d: Jack Conway; scr: W. P. Lipscomb, S. N. Behrman The Whole Town's Talking d: John Ford; scr: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1935/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar Answers #1 &amp; 2</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/oscar-answers-part-i/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/oscar-answers-part-i/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:47:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/01/18/oscar-answers-part-i/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Before looking at the answers, you may want to test your Oscar knowledge &#8212; or lack thereof &#8212; by checking out the Oscar Quiz first. &#160; Oscar Answer No. 1 William Wyler (right). From Walter Brennan* to Barbra Streisand, Wyler directed 36 Oscar-nominated performances. Elia Kazan comes in second place, with 24 nominations; George Cukor in third, with 21; and both Fred Zinnemann and Martin [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/oscar-answers-part-i/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Virginia Mayo Dies: WHITE HEAT, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, Danny Kaye Leading Lady</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/virginia-mayo/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/virginia-mayo/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2005 02:04:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/virginia-mayo/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Virginia Mayo, James Cagney, White Heat Virginia Mayo, an actress in a number of Technicolor productions of the 1940s and 1950s, died today at a nursing home in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks. Mayo, who was 84, had been in poor health since contracting pneumonia a year ago. Beginning her career as a chorus girl, the honey-blonde Virginia Mayo (born Virginia Clara Jones [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/virginia-mayo/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films – 1946</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1946/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1946/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:06:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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