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.

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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