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.

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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She later appeared in revivals of Little Me ( 1982 ) Sweet Charity ( 1986 ), for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and Damn Yankees ( 1994 ).

* 1966 Tony Award Best Musical Sweet Charity ( nominee )

Brown produced various Broadway musicals, including Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical ( 2002 ), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 2005 ), and the off-Broadway Jerry Herman musical revue Showtune ( 2003 ).

She appeared in Make a Wish, Hazel Flagg, Portofino, High Button Shoes, Sweet Charity ( for which she received a 1967 Tony Award nomination for Featured Actress in a Musical ), and Cry for Us All.

She was hired by Bob Fosse to perform with Fosse's then wife Gwen Verdon in the hit Broadway Musical Sweet Charity.

* Sweet Tooth, a homage to The Joker and an antagonist created for Holy Musical B @ Man.

* In the Starkid internet musical Holy Musical B @ man !, this candy bar is used as one of Sweet Tooth's candy-themed puns.

He won the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Oscar Lindquist in the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity.

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Sweet Smell garnered 7 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical.

* Sweet Smell of Success ( 2002 )-musical-Tony Nomination for Best Musical, Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding New Musical

In 1945, the first formal women's barbershop organization, Sweet Adelines, was formed.

That move was hinted at in their 1976 Top Ten hits " Sweet Love " and " Just to Be Close to You.

The first single, " Only Time ", was used in the film Sweet November and received U. S. radio airplay in late 2000.

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam had a style that was less electro and more pop, and paved the way for artists such as Corina, Stevie B, George Lamond, Sweet Sensation and the Cover Girls to cross over into the pop market.

Nights of Cabiria was adapted as the Broadway musical Sweet Charity and the movie Sweet Charity ( 1969 ) by Bob Fosse starring Shirley MacLaine.

) It is assumed that the three-part song Sweet tyranness, I now resign was written by him as a child.

Loach opposes censorship in cinema and was outraged at the " 18 " certificate given to Sweet Sixteen.

Mötley Crüe has been featured on a number of VH1 countdown shows, " Dr. Feelgood " was ranked the No. 7 Greatest Air Guitar Song, " Live Wire " was ranked the No. 17 Greatest Metal Song Of All Time, and " Home Sweet Home " was ranked the No. 12 Greatest Power Ballad Of All Time.

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.

Finally, in 1879, after two years ' negotiating by Sweet, Furnivall, and Murray, the OUP agreed to publish the dictionary and to pay the editor, Murray, who was also the Philological Society president.

Robyn completed a short US tour to promote Robyn, and was the supporting act for Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour at select European dates in 2008.

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 Honey in the Rock's 1981 album, Good News, contains tracks titled " Biko " and " Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto ", which compares Biko's death to that of Chilean musician Victor Jara and was covered by Billy Bragg in 1992.

Sweet tea was once consumed as a punch mixed with hard liquour with flavorings of mint and cream, with mint julep being a close version of the punch drink with its similar ingredients.

He was a member of The Low And Sweet Orchestra and later the Cranky George Trio.

Suite XVI, the follow-up album to Norfolk Coast, was released in September 2006 ( the title is a pun on " Sweet 16 " and also a reference to the fact that it was the band's sixteenth studio album ) and continued the band's resurgence.

Foster met Elizabeth ( Lisa ) Braden during his sophomore year at Davidson ; she was the daughter of an insurance broker from Nashville and was attending Sweet Briar College.