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Robert L. Simpson (film Editor)
Robert Laughlin Simpson, A.C.E. (July 31, 1910 – June 26, 1977), was an American film editor with more than 100 feature film credits. Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Simpson began his career at Paramount Pictures in 1935. By the end of the decade, he had joined 20th Century Fox, where he remained for more than 35 years. During a 55-year career, Simpson edited one hundred films, including ''Drums Along the Mohawk'' (1939), ''The Grapes of Wrath'' (1940), '' The Pride of St. Louis'' (1952), ''Call Me Madam'', ''The King and I'' (1956), '' South Pacific'' (1958), ''Fate is the Hunter'' (1964), and ''Tony Rome'' (1967). He collaborated with director George Seaton on several projects, including ''Miracle on 34th Street'', ''The Shocking Miss Pilgrim'', '' Apartment for Peggy'', and ''Chicken Every Sunday''. He also worked with John Ford, Sidney Lanfield, and Walter Lang. Simpson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for ''The Grapes of Wrath''. Parti ...
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American Cinema Editors
Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing. Members use the post-nominal letters "ACE". The organization's "Eddie Awards" are routinely covered in trade magazines such as '' The Hollywood Reporter'' and '' Variety''. The society is not an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E. (specifically the Motion Picture Editors Guild or MPEG), to which an editor might also belong. The current President of ACE is Kevin Tent, who was elected in 2020. Membership Eligibility for active membership may be obtained by the following prerequisites: * Nomination or win of ACE Eddie award and/or * Desire to be a member * Sponsorship by at least two active members * Minimum of 72 months' (6 years) editing experience on Features and/or Television * Interview by the Membership Committee * Approval by the Board of Directors * Accepta ...
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John Ford
John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and naval officer. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation. He was the recipient of six Academy Awards including a record four wins for Best Director. Ford made frequent use of location shooting and wide shots, in which his characters were framed against a vast, harsh, and rugged natural terrain. In a career of more than 50 years, Ford directed more than 140 films (although most of his silent films are now lost). He is renowned both for Westerns such as '' Stagecoach'' (1939), '' The Searchers'' (1956), and ''The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'' (1962) and adaptations of classic 20th century American novels such as '' The Grapes of Wrath'' (1940). Ford's work was held in high regard by his colleagues, with Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman among those who named him one of the greate ...
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List Of Film Director And Editor Collaborations
This list of film director and editor collaborations includes longstanding, notable partnerships of directors and editors. The list's importance is that directors and editors typically work together on the editing of a film, which is the ultimate step of filmmaking during which the dozens or hundreds of hours of raw film footage are pruned and woven into the final film. Film critic Walter Kerr has argued that editing is comparable in its importance to directing itself, and should be credited as such; he wrote "At the very least, it seems to me, the editor's credit should be rescued from its place near the bottom of the list, an area we may call Oblivion. And I don't mean the editor should be given a mere half-a-leg up, nudged one inch higher in the Pantheon of creative people who do things. The best he ever gets now is fourth or fifth spot, somewhere after the principal photographer and two or three screenwriters. Second position is where he belongs, and no lower, if we're still goi ...
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Move Over, Darling
''Move Over, Darling'' is a 1963 American comedy film starring Doris Day, James Garner, and Polly Bergen and directed by Michael Gordon filmed in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope released by 20th Century Fox. The film is a remake of a 1940 screwball comedy film, ''My Favorite Wife'', with Irene Dunne, Cary Grant and Gail Patrick. In between these movies, an unfinished version, entitled ''Something's Got to Give'', began shooting in 1962, directed by George Cukor and starring Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse. The supporting cast of ''Move Over, Darling'' features Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark, Don Knotts, Chuck Connors, Edgar Buchanan, Pat Harrington, Jr. and John Astin. Only Ritter had played the same role in ''Something's Got to Give''. ''Move Over, Darling'' was chosen as the 1964 Royal Film Performance, and had its UK premiere on 24 February 1964 at the Odeon Leicester Square in the presence of H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the 21st Golden Globe Awar ...
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The Big Lift
''The Big Lift'' is a 1950 American drama war film on location in the city of Berlin, Germany, that tells the story of "Operation Vittles", the 1948–49 Berlin Airlift, through the experiences of two U.S. Air Force sergeants (played by Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas). The film was directed and written by George Seaton, and was released April 26, 1950, less than one year after the Soviet blockade of Berlin was lifted and airlift operations ceased. Because the film was shot in Berlin in 1949, as well as using newsreel footage of the actual airlift, it provides a contemporary glimpse of the post-war state of the city as its people struggled to recover from the devastation wrought by World War II. Plot Off-duty American airmen of the 19th Troop Carrier Squadron in Hawaii are ordered to report to their squadron in July 1948. What is briefed as a temporary "training assignment" in the United States becomes a flight halfway around the world to Germany for the C-54 Skymasters of t ...
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
''Sweet Rosie O'Grady'' is a 1943 Technicolor musical film about an American singer who attempts to better herself by marrying an English duke, but is harassed by a reporter. Directed by Irving Cummings, it stars Betty Grable and Robert Young. Cast * Betty Grable as Madeleine Marlowe / Rosie O'Grady * Robert Young as Sam Magee * Adolphe Menjou as Thomas Moran * Reginald Gardiner as Charles, Duke of Trippingham * Virginia Grey as Edna Van Dyke * Phil Regan as Mr. Clark * Sig Ruman as Joe Flugelman * Alan Dinehart as Arthur Skinner * Hobart Cavanaugh as Clark * Frank Orth as Taxi Driver * Jonathan Hale as Mr. Fox * George Cockerill as Singer Box office Betty Grable was the number one box-office attraction at the time of this film's release. Her other film that year was ''Coney Island'', and this movie was also an enormous success. Both ''Coney Island'' and ''Sweet Rosie O'Grady'' were among the top 10 high-grossing films of 1943 and were two of 20th Century Fox 20th Cent ...
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Public Deb No
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkeit'' or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. Etymology and definitions The name "public" originates with the Latin '' publicus'' (also '' poplicus''), from '' populus'', to the English word ' populace', and in general denotes some mass population ("the ...
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Josette (1938 Film)
''Josette'' is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Don Ameche, Simone Simon and Robert Young.Tucker p.55-57 Two brothers fall in love with the same nightclub singer A nightclub act is a production, usually of nightclub music or comedy, designed for performance at a nightclub, a type of drinking establishment, by a nightclub performer such as a nightclub singer or nightclub dancer, whose performance may .... Plot Cast References Bibliography * Tucker, David C. ''Joan Davis: America's Queen of Film, Radio and Television Comedy''. McFarland, 2014. External links * 1938 films 1938 romantic comedy films 20th Century Fox films American black-and-white films American romantic comedy films Films about singers Films directed by Allan Dwan Films scored by Walter Scharf Films set in New Orleans 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-comedy-film-stub ...
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Love And Hisses
''Love and Hisses'' is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie and Simone Simon. It is the sequel to the film ''Wake Up and Live''.Lev p.24 Twentieth Century Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck wanted to continue the series with further films, but Winchell chose to return to New York to concentrate on his newspaper and radio work. Plot Cast * Walter Winchell as Walter Winchell * Ben Bernie as Ben Bernie * Simone Simon as Yvett Guerin * Bert Lahr as Sugar Boles * Joan Davis as Joan Dolan * Dick Baldwin as Steve Nelson * Ruth Terry as Hawaiian Specialty Singer * Douglas Fowley as Webster * Chick Chandler as Hoffman * Charles Williams as Irving Skolsky * Georges Renavent as Count Guerin * Charles Judels as Oscar * Robert Battier as Gangster * Hal K. Dawson as Music store clerk * Peters Sisters as Hawaiian Vocal Trio * Carol Chilton as Dance Specialty Duo * Maceo Thomas as Dance Specialty Duo * Br ...
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Her Master's Voice
''Her Master's Voice'' is a 1936 film directed by Joseph Santley and based on the 1933 play '' Her Master's Voice'' by Clare Kummer. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alexander Toluboff. Plot A wealthy woman moves her niece to her estate and away from her niece's jobless husband, who the aunt believes is a worthless bum. Through a misunderstanding, the husband is hired to work at the estate and complications ensue. Reception The film was not a financial success and recorded a loss of $2,300. Cast * Edward Everett Horton as Ned Farrar * Peggy Conklin as Queena Farrar * Laura Hope Crews as Aunt Minnie Stickney * Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Ellie Martin * Grant Mitchell as Horace J. Twilling * Charles Coleman as Craddock * Ruth Warren as Phoebe * Dick Elliott as Police Captain * Robert Homans as Stationmaster * Fred Santley Fred Santley (November 20, 1887 – May 14, 1953), also known variously as Freddie Santley, Fredric Santley, Frederick Santley, Frederi ...
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Cornell Borchers-Montgomery Clift In The Big Lift
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's founding principle, a popular 1868 quotation from founder Ezra Cornell: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." Cornell is ranked among the top global universities. The university is organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus, with each college and division defining its specific admission standards and academic programs in near autonomy. The university also administers three satellite campuses, two in New York City and one in Education City, Qata ...
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Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches. As of April 2020, the organization was estimated to consist of around 9,921 motion picture professionals. The Academy is an international organization and membership is open to qualified filmmakers around the world. The Academy is known around the world for its annual Academy Awards, now officially and popularly known as "The Oscars". In addition, the Academy holds the Governors Awards annually for lifetime achievement in film; presents Scientific and Technical Awards annually; gives Student Academy Awards annually to filmmakers at the undergraduate and graduate level; ...
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