The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.

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.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

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.

) The film was called The Diet of Worms, which I felt was just what Letch deserved.

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.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

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 ''??

This discovery of Melies was vastly more important than his sometimes dazzling, magician's tricks produced on film.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

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

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.

He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.

And it was interesting to observe that B.B.C.'s television film on Christmas Eve was The Bells Of St. Mary's.

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.

The film's open portrayal of sexuality and frequent rude humor, as well as the politically and socially relevant asides, made the film an international hit and a major success with critics.

Lerner and Loewe's run of success continued with their next project, a film adaptation of stories from Colette, the Academy Award winning film musical Gigi, starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier.

The film was produced as part of a production deal with Universal Studios after the financial success of Darkman.

The film was a commercial success, but was highly controversial owing to its portrayal of African American men ( played by white actors in blackface ) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan ( whose original founding is dramatized ) as a heroic force.

The film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was an international success.

It repeated this success in the Australian charts and was also featured in the film, Letter to Brezhnev.

Following the success of The Buddy Holly Story in 1978, Haley expressed interest in having his life story committed to film, but this never came to fruition.

Its success ( coupled with some theatrical releases of the film in Europe ) convinced CBS to turn it into a weekly series, which began airing in the Spring of 1978.

Chaplin decided not to release the film in the United States, which also meant that it was financially much less successful than his earlier films, despite moderate commercial success in Europe.

In American film, the most prominent comic actors of the silent era were Charlie Chaplin ( although born in England, his success was principally in the U. S .), Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

By the middle of the decade, some of the 1950s generation of American comedians, such as Jerry Lewis, went into decline, while Peter Sellers found success with international audiences in his first American film The Pink Panther.

Following his success on Broadway and on film with The Odd Couple playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon would also be prominent in the 1970s, with films like The Sunshine Boys and California Suite.

One of the major developments of the 1990s was the re-emergence of the romantic comedy film, encouraged by the success of When Harry Met Sally ... in 1989.

A film can be both a major studio release and a cult film, particularly if despite its affiliation with a major studio, it failed to achieve broad success on either the theatrical or home video markets but was championed by a small number of dedicated film fanatics who seek out lesser-known offerings.

An example may be Paul Verhoeven's big budgeted, highly sexualized Showgirls ( 1995 ), initially intended to be a drama film about the rise of a Las Vegas stripper, that flopped both critically and commercially when released theatrically ; afterward, it enjoyed success on the home video market, generating more than $ 100 million from video rentals.

These were followed by another mainstream success as the vampire-next-door in the teen horror film Fright Night ( 1985 ).

" Budgeted at US $ 32 million, the film became a moderate financial success at a worldwide box office total of US $ 40 million.

The film was not a financial success but was praised by critics.

The film garnered critical and commercial success, becoming Day's biggest hit so far.

" Carl Laemmle, the head of Universal Studios, considered terminating Davis's employment, but cinematographer Karl Freund told him she had " lovely eyes " and would be suitable for The Bad Sister ( 1931 ), in which she subsequently made her film debut.

The film was a success, and Davis's confronting characterization won praise from critics, with Life magazine writing that she gave " probably the best performance ever recorded on the screen by a U. S. actress ".

Jezebel ( film ) | Jezebel ( 1938 ) was Davis's second Academy Award-winning performance

All This and Heaven Too ( 1940 ) was the most financially successful film of Davis's career to that point, while The Letter ( 1940 ) was considered " one of the best pictures of the year " by The Hollywood Reporter, and Davis won admiration for her portrayal of an adulterous killer, a role originated by famed actress Katharine Cornell.

During the early 1940s, several of Davis's film choices were influenced by the war, such as Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), by Lillian Hellman, and Thank Your Lucky Stars ( 1943 ), a lighthearted all-star musical cavalcade, with each of the featured stars donating their fee to the Hollywood Canteen.

At 29, McQueen got a significant break when Frank Sinatra removed Sammy Davis, Jr., from the film Never So Few after Davis supposedly made some mildly negative remarks about Sinatra in a radio interview, and Davis's role went to McQueen.

Most of the songs on the album are different mixes than were heard in the movie, several songs from the film were omitted altogether and Geena Davis's song " The Ground You Walk On " was replaced with a rendition by Jill Jones.

Her stage name is taken from Geena Davis's character in the film The Long Kiss Goodnight.

Visitors to the site were presented with a biographical film on the life of Jefferson Davis narrated by an actor portraying Davis's long-time friend, Iowa Senator George Wallace Jones.

Davis's life, death and legacy was remembered in Victor, a two-hour film, that was written by the Canadian former swimmer Mark Lutz, who appeared in the title role.

A tall ( 5 ' 10 "), gangling woman with a distinctive voice, Wickes would ultimately prove herself adept as a comedienne, but she first attracted attention in the film Now, Voyager ( 1942 ), as the wisecracking nurse who helped Bette Davis's character during her mother's illness.

She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in Separate Tables ( 1956 ); she won another Tony in that category for The Night of the Iguana ( 1962 ), playing the luminous Hannah Jelkes ( a role played by Deborah Kerr on film ) opposite Bette Davis's Maxine Faulk.

Some of Davis's action-adventure titles include the $ 100 million-plus hit Chronicle ; the science fiction thriller I, Robot starring Will Smith ; The Firm, starring Tom Cruise ; Courage Under Fire, starring Denzel Washington ; Waterworld, starring Kevin Costner ; Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger ; Behind Enemy Lines, starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman ; Predator 2, starring Danny Glover ; the John Woo action film, Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman, for Paramount ; Alien vs.

Kathleen Marie " Kathy " Garver ( born December 13, 1945 ) is an American film, television, voice-over and character actress of stage, most widely known for playing Uncle Bill Davis's ( played by Brian Keith ) teenaged niece, Catherine " Cissy " Davis, on the popular 1960s sitcom, Family Affair.