His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the most successful and innovative star-driven independent production company in Hollywood of the 1950s, making movies such as Marty ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), and Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ).

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

( 1950 ), directed by Rudolph Maté ; and Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), directed by Alexander Mackendrick.

Independent production usually meant restricted circumstances, but not always — Sweet Smell of Success, for instance, despite the original plans of the production team, was clearly not made on the cheap, though like many other cherished A-budget noirs it might be said to have a B-movie soul.

Despite this success, the follow-up single " Sweet Smell Of Success " only reached No. 65.

Ebert chose the film Sweet Smell of Success to be shown.

He won his first serious recognition as a skilled dramatic actor in Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ) with co-star Burt Lancaster.

Later, as " Tony Curtis ", he cemented his reputation with breakthrough performances such as in the role of the scheming press agent Sidney Falco in Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ) with Burt Lancaster ( who also starred in Criss Cross ) and an Oscar-nominated performance as a bigoted white escaped convict chained to the black Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones.

But there ’ s nothing dated about this perfect storm of talent, from Hitchcock and Grant to writer Ernest Lehman ( Sweet Smell of Success ), co-stars James Mason and Eva Marie Saint, composer Bernard Herrmann and even designer Saul Bass, whose opening-credits sequence still manages to send a shiver down the spine.

Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 American film noir made by Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions and released by United Artists.

Despite a poorly received preview screening, Sweet Smell of Success has greatly improved in stature over the years.

Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical was created by Marvin Hamlisch, Craig Carnelia and John Guare in 2002.

Harold Hecht refused and asked him to start work on another project – adapting Ernest Lehman ’ s novellette Sweet Smell of Success into a film.

The plot was largely intact, but in Mackendrick's biography he is quoted from Notes on Sweet Smell of Success: " What Clifford did, in effect, was dismantle the structure of every single sequence in order to rebuild situations and relationships that were much more complex, had much greater tension and more dramatic energy ".

In Notes on Sweet Smell of Success, Mackendrick said, " One of the characteristic aspects of New York, particularly of the area between 42nd Street and 57th Street, is the neurotic energy of the crowded sidewalks.

A preview screening of Sweet Smell of Success did not go well, as Tony Curtis fans were expecting him to play one of his typical nice guy roles and instead were presented with Sidney Falco.

Sweet Smell of Success premiered in New York at Loew ’ s State in Times Square on June 27, 1957.

Sweet Smell of Success holds a 100 percent " fresh " rating at Rotten Tomatoes and a 100 metascore at Metacritic.

In 1993, Sweet Smell of Success was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

In 2002, Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical was created by Marvin Hamlisch, Craig Carnelia and John Guare.

Filmmaker Barry Levinson paid tribute to Sweet Smell of Success in Diner ( 1982 ) with one character wandering around saying nothing but lines from the film.

Sweet Smell of Success was released on DVD ( Region 1 ) and Blu-ray ( Region A ) as part of The Criterion Collection in February 2011.

* " Alexander Mackendrick on Sweet Smell of Success " by Alexander Mackendrick, Film in Focus, June 16, 2008.

* Photos from the set of Sweet Smell of Success

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* Sweet Sixteen ( 2002 )

* Sweet Home Alabama ( 2002 )

* Sweet Home Alabama ( 2002 )

Inc. in Action / Sweet Myth-Tery of Life ( 2002 )

The canon of films related to Indigenous Australians also increased over the period of the 1990s and early 21st Century, with Nick Parson's 1996 film Dead Heart featuring Ernie Dingo and Bryan Brown ; Rolf de Heer's The Tracker, starring Gary Sweet and David Gulpilil ; and Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence in 2002.

* " That Old Feeling: Sweet Smells " by Richard Corliss, Time, March 21, 2002.

2001 marked her career's turning point with the breakout role as Elle Woods in the box office hit Legally Blonde, and in 2002 she starred in Sweet Home Alabama, which became her biggest commercial film success to date.

Her next feature film in 2002 was Sweet Home Alabama, a movie directed by Andy Tennant.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Greenville was a common setting in the 2002 movie Sweet Home Alabama.

* The Sweet Spot ( 2002 ) ( TV )

* The Sweet Spot ( 2002 ) ( TV )

* In 2002, Peachtree City ( specifically Starr's Mill ) was a filming location for the movie Sweet Home Alabama

* With Community Trolls: " Tainted Obligation " ( 1983 ) on To Understand: The Early Recordings of Matthew Sweet ( 2002 )

* Sweet Jacques ( 2002 )

* Sweet Songs of Christmas ( 2002 ) ODEG

He published a number of small pamphlets, most of which were collected in three books ; Sweet Cicely ( 1983 ), Uncertain Time ( 1990 ) and Larksong Signal ( 1997 ) A volume of selected poems, Magpie Words, appeared in 2002.

* In 2002, Sports Illustrated named The Sweet Science, a collection of Liebling's essays on boxing, the number one sports book of all time.

According to Straight Arrow Press in the United States the " proceeds from the January 14, 2002 reissue of George Harrison's 1970 song My Sweet Lord will go to the Self-Realization Fellowship, a California organization that promotes the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda.

In 2002 the band, consisting of its current members, released the Dirty Sweet EP, which drew its name from the T. Rex song " Bang a Gong ( Get It On )".

* " Sweet Insecurity " and " Luv Luv Luv ", Luster, directed by Everett Lewis ( 2002 )

Odets's screenplay for Sweet Smell of Success became the basis for the 2002 musical of the same name.

In April 2002 the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion appeared on the BBC TV show Later with Jools Holland featuring Jools playing piano during " Sweet n Sour ".