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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.

film and remade
In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.
DeMille remade his early hit The Squaw Man twice, once as a silent film The Squaw Man ( 1918 ) and then as a sound film The Squaw Man ( 1931 ).
It was remade as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, with Bette Davis in the Apple Annie role ( fused with the old woman from Runyon's short story " The Brain Goes Home "); Frank Sinatra recorded the upbeat title song ( his rendition is not used in the film ).
M remains a powerful work ; it was remade in 1951 by Joseph Losey, but this version had little impact on audiences, and has become harder to see than the original film.
Later that year, Hawks remade his earlier film Ball of Fire as A Song Is Born, this time starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.
The sketch was later remade in a shorter version for the film And Now For Something Completely Different ; it is also available on the CD-ROM game of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
* In the 1970s, Paramount acquired the rights to the Frank Capra film Broadway Bill, which was originally released by Columbia Pictures – Paramount had remade the film as Riding High in 1950 ;
The film was later remade by Roger Corman in 1962, starring Vincent Price as Richard ( Price had played Clarence in the earlier version ).
The film remains popular and was remade in 1994 ( The Getaway ).
The film was a resounding success, so much so that it was later remade in 1930 as Lon Chaney's first ( and only ) talkie.
The feature film is also filled with subliminal messages, many hidden in single frames during the " Wizard Run " sequence ( which was remade and expanded from the original short film ), or hidden in electrical sparks generated by various happenings in the film.
* Invaders from Mars ( 1953 ) – A film, remade in 1986.
It was remade as a film in 1967.
They also wrote the score to the film State Fair ( 1945 ) ( which was remade in 1962 with Pat Boone ), and a special TV musical of Cinderella ( 1957 ).
This movie has been remade three times as Trader Horn ( 1934 ), the sexploitation film Trader Hornee ( 1970 ), and Trader Horn ( 1973 ) with Rod Taylor in the starring role.
Warners remade the film in 1936 as Two Against the World, also known as One Fatal Hour, starring Humphrey Bogart in Robinson's part and set in a radio station instead of a newspaper.
Columbia later sold the rights to the story to United Artists for $ 200, 000, and Capra remade the film as Pocketful of Miracles with Bette Davis and Glenn Ford in 1961.
The film was remade in 1946 as Easy to Wed with Esther Williams, Van Johnson, and Lucille Ball.
In 1963, the film was remade as Stolen Hours with Susan Hayward.
In 1952, the film was remade under its original title for a TV adaptation for the Broadway Television Theatre starring Sylvia Sidney, Christopher Plummer, and Ian Keith.

film and 1977
* Animal ( 1977 film ), French film ( L ' Animal ) by Claude Zidi with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch
* Albert ( suspiria ), minor character in Dario Argento's 1977 film Suspiria
It was adapted for film in 1977, with Harold Prince directing and Elizabeth Taylor, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg starring.
In 1977, a film version of A Little Night Music was released, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg, with Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold and Laurence Guittard reprising their Broadway roles.
* Mr. Billion, 1977 film by Jonathan Kaplan
Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.
* The Car, a 1977 suspense-horror film
Examples of this style of film include It's a Wonderful World ( 1939 ), The Shop Around the Corner ( 1940 ), Sabrina ( 1954 ), Annie Hall ( 1977 ), When Harry Met Sally ... ( 1989 ), Pretty Woman ( 1990 ), and Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ).
His best known films are La jetée ( 1962 ), A Grin Without a Cat ( 1977 ), Sans Soleil ( 1983 ) and AK ( 1985 ), an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
* Ricardo Cortez ( 1899 – 1977 ), silent film star
In December 1977, the film Saturday Night Fever was released.
More than half of the footage filmed for Superman II by the originally credited director ( Richard Lester ) has been removed from the film and replaced with Donner footage shot during the original principal photography from 1977 – 1978.
Plato made her film debut in 1977 at the age of thirteen in Return to Boggy Creek.
In 1977 Devo were asked by Neil Young to participate in the making of his film " Human Highway ".
The film, titled Tabloid, features interviews with Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, who was convicted in absentia for the kidnap and indecent assault of a Mormon missionary in England during 1977.
The film has been parodied and referenced in places such as the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the satirical publication The Onion, the Japanese game-show Takeshi's Castle, and the 1977 John Landis comedy anthology film Kentucky Fried Movie ( in its lengthy " A Fistful of Yen " sequence ) and also in the film Balls of Fury.
* 1977 – James Wan, Australian film director
Afterwards it became the only Godzilla film to receive a television premiere on a major U. S network, as NBC aired it on prime time television in the summer of 1977, where it was hosted by actor John Belushi dressed in a Godzilla costume.
Julius Henry " Groucho " Marx ( October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977 ) was an American comedian and film and television star.
He appeared in the star-studded war film A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 ), as Polish General Stanislaw Sosabowski.

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