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Henry Grace
Henry Grace (March 20, 1907 – September 16, 1983) was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Awards, Oscar and was nominated for twelve more in the category Academy Award for Best Production Design, Best Art Direction. As an actor, he had a role as Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom he strongly resembled, in ''The Longest Day (film), The Longest Day''. Selected filmography Grace won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for twelve more: ;Won * ''Gigi (1958 film), Gigi'' (1958) ;Nominated * ''Blackboard Jungle'' (1955) * ''North by Northwest'' (1959) * ''Cimarron (1960 film), Cimarron'' (1960) * ''The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm'' (1962) * ''Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film), Mutiny on the Bounty'' (1962) * ''Period of Adjustment (film), Period of Adjustment'' (1962) * ''How the West Was Won (film), How the West Was Won'' (1962) * ''Twilight of Honor'' (1963) * ''The Unsinkable Molly Brown (film), The Unsinkable Molly Brown'' (1964) * ''The Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Set Decorator
The set decorator is the head of the set decoration department in the film and television industry, responsible for selecting, designing, fabricating, and sourcing the "set dressing" elements of each set in a Feature Film, Television, or New Media episode or commercial, in support of the story and characters of the script. The set decorator is responsible for each décor element inside the sets, from practical lighting, technology, art, furniture, drapery, floor coverings, books, collectables, to exterior furnishings such as satellite dishes, Old West water troughs, streetlamps, traffic lights, garden furniture and sculptures. While the Set Decorator provides all of these elements, the Propmaster provides elements that are handled by the actor. For example: a library is decorated with set dressing such as the furniture, books, desk lamp, blotter, framed photos, personal effects, letter trays, letter opener, papers, paper files. The Propmaster provides the props – the letter the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Period Of Adjustment (film)
''Period of Adjustment'' is a 1962 American comedy-drama film directed by George Roy Hill from a screenplay written by Isobel Lennart, based on Tennessee Williams' 1960 play of the same name and stars Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, and Lois Nettleton. In the film; a newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own. ''Period of Adjustment'' was theatrically released on October 31, 1962 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It received generally positive reviews from critics and was a moderate box office success grossing $4 million against a $1.9 million budget. The film marked Roy Hill's directorial debut and launched Fonda to bankable film stardom, also earning her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Plot On Christmas Eve, two couples are experiencing a period of difficulty in their marital relationships. Newlyweds Isabel ( Jane Fonda) and George Haverstick (Jim Hutton) (who ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Deaths
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1907 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mister Buddwing
''Mister Buddwing'' is a 1966 American film drama directed by Delbert Mann and starring James Garner. The film depicts a well-dressed man who finds himself on a bench in Central Park with no idea who he is. He proceeds to wander around Manhattan meeting women (Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross, Angela Lansbury) as he desperately tries to figure out his own identity. Based on the 1964 novel ''Buddwing'' by Evan Hunter, the evocatively shot black-and-white drama was written by Dale Wasserman and the lively jazz musical score was written by Kenyon Hopkins. In his memoirs, Garner said "I'd summarize the plot but to this day I have no clue what it is. Worst picture I ever made. What were they thinking? What was I thinking?" Plot A man (James Garner) wakes up on a New York park bench to find that his mind is a total blank. He has no identification on him, just a slip of paper in his pocket with a phone number on it. The number leads to Gloria (Angela Lansbury), who d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Patch Of Blue
''A Patch of Blue'' is a 1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the friendship between an educated black man (played by Sidney Poitier) and an illiterate, blind, white 18-year-old girl (played by Elizabeth Hartman), and the problems that plague their friendship in a racially divided America. Made in 1965 against the backdrop of the growing civil rights movement, the film explores racism while playing on the idea that "love is blind." Shelley Winters won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, her second win for the award, following her victory in 1959 for ''The Diary of Anne Frank''. It was the final screen appearance for veteran actor Wallace Ford. Scenes of Poitier and Hartman kissing were excised from the film when it was shown in film theaters in the Southern United States. These scenes are intact in the DVD version. According to the DVD audio commentary, it was the decision of director Guy Green that ''A Patch of Blue'' be filmed in black and whit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Americanization Of Emily
''The Americanization of Emily'' is a 1964 British-American black-and-white romantic black comedy war film written by Paddy Chayefsky, produced by Martin Ransohoff, directed by Arthur Hiller and starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas and James Coburn. The film also features Joyce Grenfell, Keenan Wynn and William Windom. Chayefsky's screenplay was loosely adapted from the 1959 novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie, who had been a Seabee officer during the Normandy Invasion. The film is set in London during World War II in the weeks leading up to D-Day in 1944. Controversial for its stance during the dawn of the Vietnam War, the film has since been praised as a "vanguard anti-war film." Both James Garner and Julie Andrews have considered the film their personal favourite of those in which they acted. Plot Charlie Madison, a Chef in the United States Navy Reserve, is a cynical and highly efficient adjutant to Rear Admiral William Jessup. Charlie's job as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (film)
''The Unsinkable Molly Brown'' is a 1964 American Comedy film, comedy Musical film, musical Western (genre), western film directed by Charles Walters and starring Debbie Reynolds, filmed in Panavision. The screenplay by Helen Deutsch is based on the libretto, book of the 1960 musical ''The Unsinkable Molly Brown (musical), The Unsinkable Molly Brown'' by Richard Morris. The song score was composed by Meredith Willson. The plot is a fictionalized account of the life of Margaret Brown, who survived the 1912 sinking of the . Debbie Reynolds was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Brown. Plot Rescued from the Colorado River as an infant and raised by Seamus Tobin, tomboy Margaret Brown, Molly Tobin is determined to find a wealthy man to marry. She journeys to Leadville, Colorado and is hired as a saloon singer by Christmas Morgan. After miner Johnny Brown renovates his cabin, the two wed, and he sells his claim in a silver mine for $300,000. The Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twilight Of Honor
''Twilight of Honor'', released in the UK as ''The Charge is Murder'', is a 1963 film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams (actor, born 1931), Nick Adams, Claude Rains, and featuring Joey Heatherton and Linda Evans in their film debuts. ''Twilight of Honor'' is a courtroom drama based on Al Dewlen's novel, with a screenplay by Henry Denker. Like the 1959 courtroom drama ''Anatomy of a Murder'', it continued a recent trend of descriptions of things previously never mentioned in American cinema, such as vivid accounts of sexual assault, adultery, and prostitution. It was Chamberlain's first starring role in a feature. Plot David Mitchell (Richard Chamberlain), a widowed lawyer in a small city in New Mexico, is appointed by Judge Tucker to defend Ben Brown (Nick Adams (actor, born 1931), Nick Adams) who has been charged with murder. Norris Bixby, an ambitious local prosecutor, has been assigned to try the case, hoping to fill the shoes of Art Harper ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How The West Was Won (film)
''How the West Was Won'' is a 1962 American epic Western film directed by Henry Hathaway (who directs three out of the five chapters involving the same family), John Ford and George Marshall, produced by Bernard Smith, written by James R. Webb, and narrated by Spencer Tracy. Originally filmed in true three-lens Cinerama with the according three-panel panorama projected onto an enormous curved screen, the film stars an ensemble cast consisting of (in alphabetical order) Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne and Richard Widmark. The supporting cast features Brigid Bazlen, Walter Brennan, David Brian, Ken Curtis, Andy Devine, Jack Lambert, Raymond Massey as Abraham Lincoln, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Morgan as Ulysses S. Grant, Thelma Ritter, Mickey Shaughnessy, Harry Dean Stanton, Russ Tamblyn and Lee Van Cleef. ''How the West Was Won'' is widely c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutiny On The Bounty (1962 Film)
''Mutiny on the Bounty'' is a 1962 American Technicolor epic historical drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, and Richard Harris. The screenplay was written by Charles Lederer (with uncredited input from Eric Ambler, William L. Driscoll, Borden Chase, John Gay, and Ben Hecht), based on the novel ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Bronisław Kaper composed the score. The film tells a fictionalized story of the real-life mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against William Bligh, captain of HMAV ''Bounty'', in 1789. It is the second American film to be based on the novel, the first being ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' (1935), also produced by MGM. ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' was the first motion picture filmed in the Ultra Panavision 70 widescreen process. It was partly shot on location in the South Pacific. Panned by critics, the film was a box office flop, losing more than $6&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment industry worldwide. Given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the awards are an international recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette as a trophy, officially called the "Academy Award of Merit", although more commonly referred to by its nickname, the "Oscar". The statuette, depicting a knight rendered in the Art Deco style, was originally sculpted by Los Angeles artist George Stanley from a design sketch by art director Cedric Gibbons. The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929 at a private dinner hosted by Douglas Fairbanks in The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The Academy Awards cerem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
