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A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston. Votes: 189,823 | Gross: $18.60M. 5.
The Mirisch Company moved to the Samuel Goldwyn Studios, where they became the largest tenant. Many actors, directors, and other producers enjoyed stability and creative autonomy under the canopy of the Mirisch Company. In 1969 Walter Mirisch was named president and executive head of production of the Mirisch Corporation.
Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Kerr's book offers a rich and convincing account of the lasting changes in cinematic style, thematic content, and industry practices pioneered by the Mirisch company, changes crucial in understanding the past half century of American cinema. Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one ...
Apr 6, 2023 · Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing classic films like The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Great Escape (1963) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) as irresistible talent packages.
- Paul Kerr
The Mirisch Company (and its six corporate siblings) was the most commercially and critically successful independent production company in Hollywood in the late 1950s and 1960s, winning the Best Picture Oscar three times between 1960 and 1967, and supplying United Artists with five of its ten most profitable films between 1957 and 1969.
Title: Hollywood Independent: How the Mirisch Company changed cinema: Authors: Kerr, P. Abstract: Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing classic films like The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Great Escape (1963) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) as irresistible talent packages.
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