Wet also were the marine's fatigues and the face had an oily film.

When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

It was a `` potboiler '' made on a `` shoestring '' and not the sort of film I like, as all I had to do was look blank and scream a great deal.

Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

But in general the European efforts to make an art of the entertainment had ignored the slowly emerging language of the film itself.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

When arrested, he had the submarine secrets on a roll of candid camera film as well as anti-submarine secrets in Christmas gift wrapping, it was testified.

In July 2009, it was revealed that Universal Studios had won the rights to adapt the game into a film.

He bemoaned the fact that the book had been taken as the source material for a 1971 film that was perceived to glorify sex and violence.

Although he had demonstrated no previous interest in film as a profession, Kurosawa submitted the required essay, which asked applicants to discuss the fundamental deficiencies of Japanese films and find ways to overcome them.

( Coincidentally, Hickson had played a housekeeper in the first film in which Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple.

He also had been working with Gerard Kenny and Kristi Kane ( libretto ) in London on a musical version of the classic film My Man Godfrey.

Plans to make a third Evil Dead film had been circulating for a number of years, even prior to the production of Darkman.

Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

Visual effects supervisor William Mesa showed Raimi storyboards he had from Victor Fleming's film Joan of Arc that depicted huge battle scenes and he picked out 25 shots to use in Army of Darkness.

The actor had a day to approve it or, as he was told, there would be no ad campaign for the film.

The original ending, in which Ash oversleeps in the cave and wakes up in a post-apocalyptic future, was restored to the film for the UK VHS release, which also had the cinematic ending put in as a post credit extra.

* 1967: Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin reported that on October 20 they had captured a purported Sasquatch on film at Bluff Creek, California.

Many years later, Bob Heironimus, an acquaintance of Patterson's, said that he had worn an ape costume for the making of the film.

The film, which was co-directed with Leach and producer Cynthia Munroe, had been shot in 1963 but remained unreleased until 1969, when De Palma's star had risen sufficiently within the Greenwich Village filmmaking scene.

The cast was young and relatively new, though the stars Sissy Spacek and John Travolta had gained considerable attention for previous work in, respectively, film and episodic sitcoms.

For starters, the film refuses to even allow for the possibility that men and women with homosexual predilections might-with great effort, to be sure-achieve successful and happy marriages to members of the opposite sex.

Personal Best in 1982, and Lianna in 1983 treat the lesbian relationships more sympathetically and show lesbian sex scenes, though in neither film are the relationships happy ones.

The first happy face recorded on film can be seen in Ingmar Bergman's 1948 film " Hamnstad ".

Later on, in 1953 and 1958, the happy face was used in promotional campaigns for motion pictures Lili and Gigi, respectively. First use of happy face in a campaign for the film Lili in 1953.

When asked about the film, Milgram told one of his graduate students, Sharon Presley, that he was not happy with the film and told her that he did not want his name to be used in the credits.

Days of Wine and Roses, a dark psychological film about the effects of alcoholism on a previously happy marriage, starred Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick.

Jim and Jim were deliberately depicted as the most normal, happy — and boring — couple in the film.

However, Muni himself was " inflexible on matters of taste and principle ", once turning down an $ 800, 000 movie contract because he wasn't happy with the studio's choice of film roles.

After two screen tests failed to elicit a response from the studios, Tracy did not consider becoming a film actor: " I had no ambition in that direction and I was perfectly happy on the stage.

To date, all of the film and TV adaptations have strayed somewhat from the original plot, some going as far as to give it a happy ending.

The film, a war picture, was rewritten to accommodate Clara Bow, as she was Paramount's biggest star, but wasn't happy about her part: "( Wings is ).. a man's picture and I'm just the whipped cream on top of the pie ".

Four Daughters is a 1938 musical drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters ' romantic lives.

While popular in Europe, the film was a commercial failure in North America due to the studio's recutting of the movie to include a simplified " happy " ending.

The collaboration was not a happy one and Dawley would cut the 45-minute film down to 11-minutes and claim credit for O ' Brien's pioneering effects work, which combined realistic stop-motion animated prehistoric models with live action.

The ending of the film is also very dramatic and works well, without a false Hollywood happy ending ...

" Norma makes a short speech at how happy she is to be back making a film, and delivers the film's most famous line: " All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

The off-key happy ending of the film that was released was added at the insistence of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, who refused to approve the novel's logical ending in which Gish's character wandered into a windstorm and died.

The novel also gives no indication that any of the couples will work through their problems ( the film, ambiguities notwithstanding, has a decidedly happy ending ), and the identity of the errant husband is different ( though not his rationale ).

The film is about Henry Van Cleve ( played by Don Ameche ) who presents himself at the gates of Hell to recount his life and the women he has known from his mother onwards, concentrating on his happy but sometimes difficult 25 years of marriage to Martha ( Gene Tierney ).

The film has a happy Hollywood ending for Cher: Mr. Hall and Miss Geist get married ; her friendships with Tai and Dionne are reaffirmed ; Tai and Travis are in love ; and, in Josh's arms, she too has now finally found love.

The unique vocal intonations with which he spoke in every other film were the happy results of an unsuccessful attempt to go from an English to an American accent so that he wouldn't be limited to playing British roles in American movies.

Columbia was still not happy with the film and asked for 26 lines with the word " fuck " in them to be cut.