His debut was in You're in the Navy Now ( 1951 ), and in 1952 he appeared in several films, including Don Siegel's Duel at Silver Creek, Hangman's Knot, and the war drama Eight Iron Men.

Born in Latvia, Siegel's family came to the United States when he was an infant.

William Carlos Williams was an early supporter of Siegel's poetry and defender of his views.

Eli Siegel's work, which in time became Aesthetic Realism, was the cause of some of the largest praise, the largest love in persons, and also the largest resentment ...

Bogdanovich's first choice was the country singer Jimmy Dean, but his producers did not like that idea ; his next choice was Gulager, whom he had seen give a great performance in Don Siegel's The Killers ( 1964 ).

The story was recounted in Barry Siegel's true crime novel A Death in White Bear Lake.

Considered the second television movie, Don Siegel's The Hanged Man was broadcast by the National Broadcasting Co. on November 18, 1964.

Under Siegel's stint, the show went from last to first in the ratings for a brief period, and from 1977 until his departure in 1978 it was known as The Stanley Siegel Show.

Fabian was contracted to 20th Century-Fox beginning with Don Siegel's Hound-Dog Man, based on Fred Gipson's novel.

The fictional town of Santa Mira was originally the setting of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and named as such in Halloween III as an homage to Siegel's film.

Siegel's first professional broadcasting job was at WBLI in Babylon, New York, where he " did morning newscasts and a show that was part phone-ins, part Top Forty, all under the pseudonym Bob Charles.

The Siegel estate claims that the original " Superboy " character published by DC Comics is an independent creation that used ideas from Jerry Siegel's original rejected pitch and was created without his consent.

On March 26, 2008, Judge Stephen G. Larson of the Federal District Court for the Central District of California ruled that Siegel's estate was entitled to claim a share in the United States copyright.

Siegel's auction catalog was a 391-page work that included extensive description and documentation of the items, many of which were the " finest known " of their type, and sold for prices well above their nominal values.

Due to his lifelong friendship with Owney Madden, Raft was a friend or acquaintance of several other crime figures, including Bugsy Siegel and Siegel's old friend

Siegel's work spans analytic number theory ; and his theorem on the finiteness of the integer points of curves, for genus > 1, is historically important as a major general result on diophantine equations, when the field was essentially undeveloped.

The Siegel estate claims that the original " Superboy " character published by DC Comics is an independent creation that used ideas from Jerry Siegel's original rejected pitch and was created without his consent.

Siegel's essays in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine were spotted by a CBS executive, and Siegel was hired as a feature correspondent for WCBS-TV in New York.

The not-for-profit Aesthetic Realism Foundation was established by Siegel's students in 1973.

Batman writer Stanley Ralph Ross was then asked to perform a re-write, after Hart and Siegel's script was deemed unsuitable.

David Siegel's 1996 book Creating Killer Web Sites was allegedly the first to publish the Spacer GIF technique.

The film was an unexpected success, becoming the highest-grossing British film in cinema history at the time, with worldwide box office in excess of $ 245. 7 million, and receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

The film was the highest-grossing film of 1941 and won two Academy Awards ( Best Actor and Best Editing ), as well as earning Hawks his only nomination for Best Director.

It was the highest-grossing British film in North America that year.

In addition, the film was the fourth highest-grossing film in Britain in 1979.

Princess Mononoke was the highest-grossing film in Japan — until it was eclipsed by another 1997 film, Titanic — and the first animated film to win Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards.

First Contact was the highest-grossing film on its opening weekend, making $ 30. 7 million.

Surprisingly, Convoy was the highest-grossing picture of Peckinpah's career, notching $ 46. 5 million at the box office.

The single largest undertaking by a Japanese filmmaker at the time, Seven Samurai was a technical and creative watershed that became Japan's highest-grossing movie and set a new standard for the industry.

He is famous for his dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 9 and Dark Shadows, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, which was the second highest-grossing film of 2010, and the twelfth highest-grossing film of all time.

The highest-grossing film of the decade was " E. T.

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With a gross of $ 30. 5 million equating to earnings of $ 12. 2 million, From Here to Eternity was not only one of the top grossing films of 1953, but one of the ten highest-grossing films of the decade.

The film, culminating in a shootout on Alcatraz island, was considerably shorter than the previous Dirty Harry films at 95 minutes, but was a major commercial success grossing $ 100 million ( US $ in dollars ) worldwide to become Eastwood's highest-grossing film to date.

The film became another box office success and was among the top five highest-grossing films of the year.

It was Altman's highest-grossing film, released during a time of increasing anti-war sentiment in the United States.

Though some critics thought it a failure, the film made money, and was the second highest-grossing film Altman had directed to that point.

The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008.

Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film to date ( it was surpassed in 2010 by Cameron's directorial follow-up, Avatar ), grossing more than US $ 1. 843 billion in box-office receipts worldwide, and transformed DiCaprio into a commercial movie superstar, resulting in fan worship among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as " Leo-Mania.

Disney was keen to promote Mulan to the Chinese, hoping they might replicate their success with their 1994 film The Lion King, which was one of the country's highest-grossing Western films at that time.

It was the highest-grossing film of 1934.