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3 days ago · Independent producer Walter Wanger had only the title and two pages of the script when he approached Borzage about directing the picture. “It’s a beautiful title, it’s an intriguing title,” Borzage wrote. “But where’s the story?” When production started, just over fifty pages of the script was complete.
19 hours ago · The decision to convert to Superscope was reportedly made during the film’s long post-production phase. The slightly tighter formatting only affected a few shots, most noticeably the giant choker close-ups of Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. Even in 1:85, the framing clipped chins a bit; at 2.1, the shots seemed even tighter.
4 days ago · Yet he kept his word with Ford having to lobby producer Walter Wanger hard since he kept turning Wayne down for being a B-movie actor, wanting Gary Cooper to star instead.
3 days ago · Every Night at Eight is a 1935 American comedy musical film starring George Raft and Alice Faye and made by Walter Wanger Productions Inc. and Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Raoul Walsh and produced by Walter Wanger from a screenplay by C. Graham Baker, Bert Hanlon and Gene Towne based on the story Three On a Mike by Stanley Garvey.
4 days ago · At the suggestion of producer Walter Wanger, her third husband, she changed her hair colour from blonde to brunette, which led to her successes in leading roles. They included a series of films noir directed by Fritz Lang , including Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945), followed by Jean Renoir’s dark melodrama Woman on the ...
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3 days ago · However, despite Ford having to fight hard with producer Walter Wanger, who consistently rejected Wayne as a B-movie actor in favour of Gary Cooper, he kept his promise. Ford dismissed making the film at all unless Wayne got the part.
5 days ago · Invasion of the Body Snatchers (dir. Walter Wanger, 1956) more... less... There are three subsequent adaptations of this story from the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, including the 1976 film of the same name, Body Snatchers (1993), and The Invasion (2007).
