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Apr 2, 2014 · Jennifer Jones and Joseph L. Mankiewicz present Delbert Mann the Oscar® for Directing "Marty" at the 28th Academy Awards in 1956.
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Nov 12, 2007 · Delbert Mann, who transformed Paddy Chayefsky’s classic teleplays “Marty” and “The Bachelor Party” into big-screen triumphs and helped bring TV techniques to the film world, died Sunday.
Nov 13, 2007 · Delbert Mann, who directed Paddy Chayefsky's classic teleplays "Marty" and "The Bachelor Party" and then efficiently transformed them into big-screen triumphs, has died. He was 87.
Delbert Mann was born in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1920. He moved to Nashville, which he considers his home town, as a young boy when his father came to teach at Scarritt College. He graduated from Hume-Fogg High School and Vanderbilt University, where Dinah Shore and Mann's future wife, Ann Caroline Gillespie, were among his classmates.
A director who found success in the competing mediums of film and television in the 1950s, Mann’s best known film, Marty (1955), was a remake of his 1953 television play. Other films include The Bachelor Party (1957), Separate Tables (1958), Lover Come Back (1961) and That Touch Of Mink (1962). *Read Delbert Mann's Independent obituary
Biography. Working in TV from 1947, Mann directed over 100 live plays, the best known of which was Paddy Chayefsky's "Marty" (1953). The following year he directed a big-screen version, starring Ernest Borgnine as the lonely Bronx butcher in search of love. The success of the film--it took the Palme d'Or at Cannes--paved the way for a number of ...
9. That Touch of Mink (1962) Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Romance. 6.6. Rate. A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save herself for marriage. Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows.
