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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A point of interest is that it is probably Daniel Jones ( and not as is often thought Henry Sweet ) who provided George Bernard Shaw with the basis for his fictional character Henry Higgins in " Pygmalion ".

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).

The iconic noir counterpart to the femme fatale, the private eye, came to the fore in films such as The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, and Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe.

In addition to the aforementioned, other directors associated with top-of-the-bill Hollywood film noirs include Edward Dmytryk ( Murder, My Sweet, Crossfire )— the first important noir director to fall prey to the industry blacklist — as well as Henry Hathaway ( The Dark Corner, Kiss of Death ) and John Farrow ( The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes ).

British ham is closely associated with the older Wiltshire cure process rather than the newer Sweet cure.

After some time away from film, Cotten returned in the horror classic Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1964 ), with Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Agnes Moorehead.

Ae Fond Kiss explored an inter-racial love affair, Sweet Sixteen a teenager's relationship with his mother, and My Name is Joe an alcoholic's struggle to stay sober.

Loach values having a strong, creative partnership with scriptwriters, most recently with Paul Laverty, who has written nine feature films for Loach ( including The Wind That Shakes The Barley and Sweet Sixteen ), and previously with Jim Allen ( Land & Freedom ) and Barry Hines ( Kes ).

He inducted Lynyrd Skynyrd into the 2006 Rock ' n ' Roll Hall of Fame and performed " Sweet Home Alabama " with them.

Pickford added to her 1909 Biographs ( Sweet and Twenty, They Would Elope, and To Save Her Soul, to name a few ) with films from California.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

She starred in Whose Life Is It Anyway with James Naughton, which opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on February 24, 1980, and ran for 96 performances, and in Sweet Sue, which opened at the Music Box Theatre ( transferred to the Royale Theatre ) on Jan. 8, 1988, and ran for 164 performances.

* Crimson Sweet: sweet flavor, medium-sized, crimson skin with pinkish flesh, mid season

* Sweet Treat: super sweet with hints of Thompson grape flavor, green, golden skin with yellow juicy flesh, late mid season

* 2003: Ron Carter & Art Farmer: Live at Sweet Basil with Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins

Heartbeat ( 1991 ) and Sweet Revenge ( 1994 ), meanwhile, looked to international horizons and worked with a global range of artists such as Roddy Frame, Dee Dee Brave, Marco Prince, Arto Lindsay, Youssou N ' Dour, David Sylvian, and Ingrid Chavez.

Sweet tea, iced and flavored with spearmint, is a summer tradition in the Southern United States.

It was re-released in 1999, with a bonus track, Crow's cover of the Guns N ' Roses song " Sweet Child o ' Mine ," which was included on the soundtrack of the film Big Daddy.

Sweet tea can also be made with a simple syrup and is sometimes tempered with baking soda to reduce the acidity of the tea's tannins.

Sweet tea is typically brewed with a lower carbohydrate and calorie content than most fruit juices and sugary sodas, but it is not unusual to occasionally find sweet tea with a sugar level as high as 22 brix ( percent weight sucrose in water ), twice that of Coca Cola.