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Andrew Marton
Andrew Marton (born Endre Marton; 26 January 1904 – 7 January 1992) was a Hungarian-American film director. In his career, he directed 39 films and television programs, and worked on 16 as a second unit director, including the chariot race in ''Ben-Hur (1959 film), Ben Hur'' (1959). Life and career Marton was born in Budapest, Hungary. After high-school graduation in 1922 he was taken by Alfréd Deésy to Vienna to work at Sascha-Film, mostly as an assistant editor. After a few months, he rose the attention of director Ernst Lubitsch, who convinced him to try Hollywood. Marton returned to Europe in 1927, and worked as the main editor of the Tobis Film, Tobis company in Berlin, and later as an assistant director in Vienna. He directed his ''Two O'Clock in the Morning'', first feature film, in 1929 in Great Britain. He joined a German expedition to Tibet in 1934, where he filmed ''Demon of the Himalayas''. Marton cited that he was Jewish as a reason that the film could not be rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Benedek
László Benedek (; March 5, 1905 – March 11, 1992; sometimes ''Laslo Benedek'') was a Hungarian-born film director and cinematographer, most notable for directing ''The Wild One'' (1953). He gained recognition for his direction of the film version of ''Death of a Salesman'' (1951), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and a Best Director nomination from the Directors Guild of America. However, it was for his directorial efforts on his next project that Benedek is best remembered. His motorcycle gang film ''The Wild One'' (1953) caused a storm of controversy and was banned in the United Kingdom until 1968. Biography Early life and European career He was born in Budapest; his half-brother was George Gerbner. Benedek intended to be a psychiatrist and studied at Vienna and Berlin. He worked in the film industry to pay his bills and ended up deciding to focus on that instead.Rejecting Hollywood Formula: Hollywood Letter By Richard Dyer MacCann. The Christian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf's Clothing (1936 Film)
''Wolf's Clothing'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Claude Hulbert, Gordon Harker and Lilli Palmer. The screenplay concerns a blundering group of secret agents who mistake a Foreign Office official for a dangerous international assassin. It was made at Shepperton Studios by the independent producer Richard Wainwright.Wood p.88 Cast * Claude Hulbert as Ambrose Girling * Gordon Harker as Prosser * Lilli Palmer as Lydia * George Graves as Sir Roger Balmayne * Peter Gawthorne as Sir Hector * Helen Haye as Mildred Girling * Joan Swinstead as Mary Laming * Frank Birch as Reverend John Laming * Ernest Sefton Ernest Sefton (born as Ernest Henry Tipton; 13 January 1883 in Hackney, London – 5 December 1954) was a British film actor. He was the brother of Violet Loraine. Selected filmography * '' A Night Like This'' (1932) - Customer at Moonsto ... as Finden Charvet * George Hayes as Yassiov * Shayle Gardner as Babo * Violet Gould as Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss President
''Miss President'' (Hungarian: ''Elnökkisasszony'') is a 1935 Hungarian comedy film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Lili Muráti, Pál Jávor and Gyula Kabos.Ostrowska, Pitassio & Varga p.90 It was shot at the Hunnia Studios in Budapest. The film's sets were designed by the art director Márton Vincze. Synopsis Zsuzsa inherits a Budapest textile factory from her father and takes over is management. She has to overcome scepticism about her ability to run the business and fend off the unwelcome advances of the factory foreman. To do this she creates a fictitious fiancée, only for a new engineer to arrive strongly resembling her creation. Cast * Lili Muráti as Várkonyi Zsuzsa * Pál Jávor as Török István * Ella Gombaszögi as Berta * Gyula Kabos as Vas Ödön * Jenö Törzs as Kollár * Márta Nádai as Kató * Sándor Pethes as Gáldy Péter * Gusztáv Pártos as Mr. White * Andor Sárossy as Gonda Károly * Kálmán Zátony as Bamberger Ferenc * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Pole, Ahoy
''North Pole, Ahoy'' () is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Walter Riml, Guzzi Lantschner and Gibson Gowland. Synopsis A film company goes to shoot its latest production in the Arctic. Cast * Walter Riml as Fietje * Guzzi Lantschner as Tietje * Jarmila Marton as Rita Nora * Gibson Gowland as Leading seaman * Karl Buchholz as Film Director * Ludwig Stössel as Director * Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Professor Pierson * Senta Söneland as Mrs. Pierson * Walter Gross * Nora Nord * Charly Berger * Louis Adlon Production ''North Pole, Ahoy'' was the last feature film by the German subsidiary of Universal Pictures before it withdrew from Germany to Austria following the takeover by the Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor .... It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Without Pause
''The Night Without Pause'' () is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Andrew Marton and Franz Wenzler and starring Sig Arno, Camilla Horn and Max Adalbert.Waldman p. 193 It was made by the German subsidiary of Universal Pictures in partnership with Tobis Film. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by Fritz Maurischat and Gabriel Pellon. It is based on the farce ''Der keusche Lebemann'' by Ernst Bach and Franz Arnold, and was remade in 1952. Synopsis When his wife becomes suspicious that he is having an affair after discovering incriminating evidence, Julius Seipold manages to convince her that it is his innocuous assistant Max who is having a relationship. He invents a wild backstory about Max, which in turn fascinates Julius Seipold's daughter Gertie. Cast * Sig Arno as Max Stieglitz * Camilla Horn as Letta Larbo * Max Adalbert as Julius Seipold * Ida Wüst as Regine Seipold * Ilse Korseck as Gertie Seipold * Paul Richter as Walte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Landis
John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for directing comedy films such as ''The Kentucky Fried Movie'' (1977), ''Animal House, National Lampoon's Animal House'' (1978), The Blues Brothers (film), ''The Blues Brothers'' (1980), ''Trading Places'' (1983), ''Three Amigos'' (1986), ''Coming to America'' (1988) and ''Beverly Hills Cop III'' (1994), and horror films such as ''An American Werewolf in London'' (1981) and ''Innocent Blood (film), Innocent Blood'' (1992). He also directed the music videos for Michael Jackson's Michael Jackson's Thriller (music video), "Thriller" (1983) and "Black or White#Music video, Black or White" (1991). Landis later ventured into television work, including the series ''Dream On (TV series), Dream On'' (1990), ''Weird Science (TV series), Weird Science'' (1994) and ''Sliders (TV series), Sliders'' (1995). He also directed several episodes of the 2000s horror anthology series ''Masters of Horror'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born Igor Mikhail Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theatre director and comedian. He worked across a range of genres and had an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their experience. He is one of 21 people to have won all four of the major American entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). His other honors included three BAFTA Awards, the Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 1999, the National Medal of Arts in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2003 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2010. His films received a total of 42 Academy Award nominations, and seven wins. Nichols began his career in the 1950s with the comedy improvisational troupe The Compass Players, predecessor of The Second City, in Chicago. He then teamed up with his improv partner, Elaine May, to form the comedy duo Nichols and May. Their live improv act was a hit on Broadway, and each of their three albums was no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Mankiewicz
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (; February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. A four-time Academy Award winner, he is best known for his witty and literate dialogue and his preference for voice-over narration and narrative flashbacks. Also known as an actor's director, Mankiewicz directed several prominent actors, including Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and Elizabeth Taylor, to several of their memorable onscreen performances. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Mankiewicz studied at Columbia University and graduated in 1928. He moved overseas to Europe, where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the ''Chicago Tribune'' and translated German intertitles into English for UFA. On the advice of his screenwriter brother Herman, Mankiewicz moved back to the United States, and was hired by Paramount Pictures as a dialogue writer. He then became a screenwriter, writing for numerous films starring Jack Oakie. He next moved to Metro-Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Zinneman
Alfred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an American film director and producer. He won four Academy Awards for directing and producing films in various genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir and play adaptations. He began his career in Europe before emigrating to the US, where he specialized in shorts before making 25 feature films during his 50-year career. He was among the first directors to insist on using authentic locations and for mixing stars with non-professional actors to give his films more realism. Within the film industry, he was considered a maverick for taking risks and thereby creating unique films, with many of his stories being dramas about lone and principled individuals tested by tragic events. According to one historian, Zinnemann's style demonstrated his sense of "psychological realism and his apparent determination to make worthwhile pictures that are nevertheless highly entertaining." Among his films were ''The Search'' (1948), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wyler
William Wyler (; born Willi Wyler (); July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was a German-born American film director and producer. Known for his work in numerous genres over five decades, he received numerous awards and accolades, including three Academy Awards. He holds the record of twelve nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director. For his oeuvre of work, Wyler was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award – Feature Film, Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award, and the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award, Life Achievement Award. Wyler immigrated to the United States in 1921 where he worked first for Universal Pictures, Universal Studios in New York before moving to Los Angeles. By 1925, he was the youngest director at Universal, and in 1929 he directed ''Hell's Heroes (film), Hell's Heroes'', Universal's first sound production filmed entirely on location. Wyler went on to win the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Farewell To Arms (1957 Film)
''A Farewell to Arms'' is a 1957 American epic war drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature-film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semiautobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick. A 1932 film version starred Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. Plot Frederick Henry is an American officer serving in an ambulance unit for the Italian Army during World War I. While recovering from a wound in a British base hospital in northern Italy, he is treated by nurse Catherine Barkley, and they engage in an affair. Frederick's friend, the doctor, convinces the army that Frederick's knee is more severely wounded than it actually is. Frederick and Catherine continue their romance but do not marry. Catherine discovers that she is pregnant, but after sneaking alcohol into the hospital for Frederick, head nurse Miss Van Campen discovers the duplicity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
