Not content to create only the music and lyrics, Noel Coward also wrote the book and directed Sail Away ( Capitol WAO 1643 ; ;

In that same year Lerner also wrote the Oscar-winning original screenplay for An American in Paris, produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Raimi wrote, directed and edited, while fellow Michigander Rob Tapert was producer.

John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ) and I'm All Right, Jack ( 1959 ).

Both wrote, directed and appeared in their movies.

In 2000, Benedict wrote and directed his first screenplay, Cahoots.

Hopkins later directed a film version of the stage play, to which he also wrote the musical score.

The Conversation, which Coppola directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d ' Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.

Poetry and cruelty of life were harmonically combined in the works that Vittorio De Sica wrote and directed together with screenwriter Cesare Zavattini: among them, Shoeshine ( 1946 ), The Bicycle Thief ( 1948 ) and Miracle in Milan ( 1951 ).

* Chicago based writer, Greg Allen, wrote and directed K., based on The Trial.

François Truffaut wrote and directed a film adaptation of the novel in 1966.

In 1986, Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni ( his introduction to American audiences ) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailhouse.

Cocteau's films, most of which he both wrote and directed, were particularly important in introducing the avant-garde into French cinema and influenced to a certain degree the upcoming French New Wave genre.

In 1965, Lewis directed and ( along with Bill Richmond ) wrote the comedy film The Family Jewels about a young heiress who must choose among six uncles, one of whom is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.

Douglas Jardine always defended his tactics and in the book he wrote about the tour, In Quest of the Ashes, described allegations that the England bowlers directed their attack with the intention of causing physical harm as stupid and patently untruthful.

The film is a collaboration between Hayao Miyazaki, who wrote the screenplay, and his son Gorō, who directed the film.

In the light of criticism directed against them and their universe of sweetness and light, it is important to understand that they believed sincerely in what they wrote.

John Alan Simon wrote, produced and directed a film adaptation of Radio Free Albemuth.

His career began in the late 1980s, when he wrote and directed My Best Friend's Birthday.

Rodriguez wrote and directed the film Planet Terror for the collaboration with Quentin Tarantino in their double feature Grindhouse ( released in 2007 ).

Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low-budget box-office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction ( notably The Castle and The Trial ), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka ; King of the Hill ( 1993 ), a critically acclaimed Depression-era drama ; The Underneath ( 1995 ), a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross ; and Schizopolis ( 1996 ), a comedy which he starred in, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed.

Peckinpah wrote and directed a pilot called Trouble at Tres Cruzes, which was aired in March 1959 before the actual series was made in 1960.

Following that dogma in 1998, he conceived, wrote and directed ( and also had a small acting role in ) the first of the Dogme movies, The Celebration ( Festen ).

In 2003, he directed the apocalyptic science fiction love story It's All About Love, a movie he wrote, directed and produced himself over a period of five years.

Hoffman then wrote a column for The Hollywood Reporter speculating that Lehman would make a good screenwriter, and within a week Paramount called Lehman, inviting him to Los Angeles for talks.

Meyer and Bennett divided the story between them and wrote different parts of the script, requiring approval from Nimoy, lead actor William Shatner and Paramount.

After finishing Culhane's uncompleted shorts, he directed, produced, wrote and designed four short films at Paramount: The Fuz, Mini-Squirts, Marvin Digs and Mouse Trek.

With Paramount lyricist Frank Loesser, he wrote " Two Sleepy People " in 1938.

Mercer also wrote hundreds of scripts for various cartoon series, including a number of " Popeye " episodes, animated cartoons produced for Paramount Pictures, Deputy Dawg and Milton the Monster.

Harburg and Gorney were offered a contract with Paramount: in Hollywood, Harburg worked with composers Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, and Burton Lane, and wrote the lyrics for The Wizard of Oz for which he won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for Over the Rainbow.

On February 20, 1957, Paramount executive Russell Holman wrote Swanson a letter in which he asked her to cease work on the project because " it would be damaging for the property to be offered to the entertainment public in another form as a stage musical.

In 1976, after a conversation with Hal Prince, who had the theatrical rights to Sunset, Lloyd Webber wrote " an idea for the moment when Norma Desmond returns to Paramount Studios "; Lloyd Webber did no further work on the play until after 1989's Aspects of Love.

During and after the war Irwin wrote 17 more books, including a biography of Herbert Hoover, a history of Paramount Pictures and its founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built ( 1928 ), and his autobiography, The Making of a Reporter ( 1942 ).

Though he commented positively on its advocacy of the Chinese in their fight against Japan, he wrote, "... Paramount should have spared us and its cast ... the necessity of being bothered with such folderol ".

Dean Pitchford wrote the screenplay ( and most of the lyrics ) for Footloose, Herbert Ross directed the movie, and Paramount Pictures co-produced and distributed it.

In 1982, Buchwald wrote a screen treatment that was pitched to Jeffrey Katzenberg of Paramount, with the intention of starring Eddie Murphy, who was under contract to Paramount at the time.

" Wolf wrote 45 pages within only a few days, and dropped the script off at Paramount 15 minutes before his deadline.

The film was directed by Christopher Cain, distributed by Paramount Pictures, and stars Emilio Estevez, who also wrote the screenplay, and Craig Sheffer, this is the only S. E.

His conversion out of Judaism into Catholicism was more out of a social and socioeconomic consideration ( something clearly depicted to in the movie Sunshine ( 1999 film ), starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz, directed by István Szabó, who also wrote the screenplay, released by Paramount Pictures in 1999 ).

Hunter wrote " Downhearted Blues " while recording for Ink Williams at Paramount Records, but she received only $ 368 in royalties.

March worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood until 1940, under contract to MGM and Paramount and later as a freelancer for Republic Pictures and other studios ; he wrote at least 19 produced scripts in his Hollywood career.

The idea for the 1994 sitcom Someone Like Me originated after Gail Berman ( now president of Viacom's Paramount Pictures ), the show's producer, read a New York Times article about the Hotel which referred to a children's book which Viva and friend Jane Lancellotti wrote entitled Gaby at the Chelsea ( a take on Kay Thompson ’ s 1950 ’ s classic Eloise books ).

The novel was the first one Chandler wrote after working as a screen writer for Paramount in Hollywood and reflects some of his experiences with and disdain for the film industry.

In the 1970s, he studied film history at Columbia University, wrote short fiction and non-fiction and worked as a movie script reader for Paramount Pictures.

While at Columbia, McGrath wrote an econometric paper on movie theaters and video competition that contributed to the US Justice Department lifting the 30-year old " Paramount Consent Decree " which had prohibited film companies from owning movie theaters — after which Columbia became the first motion picture studio since 1954 to acquire a chain of movie theaters.

He then developed an original television pilot for Paramount Pictures and CBS, and wrote feature projects for Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Warner Bros ..

In 1918, she left World War I-era devastated Europe to settle in New York City in the United States, where she hid her Dutch Jewish ancestry, generally describing herself as a " Parisienne " and on an information sheet for the Paramount Public Department she wrote that she was born at Versailles on July 12, 1901 ( shaving 10 years off her age as well ), the daughter of a fictional Maurice Guillaume Goudal, a lawyer.