Who made films in the US, Phil Rosen or Sacha Guitry?
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Phil Rosen Phil Rosen (May 8, 1888 – October 22, 1951) was an American film director and cinematographer. He directed 142 films between 1915 and 1949.
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Sacha Guitry Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (] ; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the Boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and followed his father into the theatrical profession. He became known for his stage performances, often in boulevardier roles, in the many plays he wrote, of which there were more than 120. He was married five times, always to rising actresses whose careers he furthered. Probably his best-known wife was Yvonne Printemps to whom he was married between 1919 and 1932.
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Oliver T. Marsh Oliver T. Marsh (January 30, 1892 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States – May 5, 1941 in Hollywood, California, United States) was a prolific Hollywood cinematographer. He worked on over eighty films just for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer alone. Some of the more notable productions he was involved with are: "Sadie Thompson" (1928), "Rain" (1932), "The Merry Widow" (1934), "David Copperfield" (1935), "A Tale of Two Cities" (1935), "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936), "San Francisco" (1936) and "Another Thin Man" (1939). He and Allen Davey received Academy Honorary Awards "for the color cinematography of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, "Sweethearts"" (1938) at the 11th Academy Awards. The pair were also nominated for Best Cinematography (Color) for "Bitter Sweet" (1940).
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Goldstein (film) Goldstein is a 1965 film co-directed by Philip Kaufman and Benjamin Manaster, and produced by Kaufman and Zev Braun. The cast featured a number of actors from The Second City comedy troupe. The film shared the Prix de la Nouvelle Critique at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964 with Bertolucci's Before the Revolution.
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Monte Walsh (1970 film) Monte Walsh is a 1970 film directed by cinematographer William A. Fraker. His directorial debut, it stars Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau and Jack Palance. The name "Monte Walsh" is taken from the title of a 1963 western novel by Jack Schaefer, but the film has little to do with the plot of Schaefer's book. The film was set in Harmony, Arizona. A made-for-TV remake was set in Wyoming and directed by Simon Wincer, with Tom Selleck and Isabella Rossellini playing the parts of Monte and Martine. The story has elements of a tragedy. The song played over the opening credits is "The Good Times Are Comin' " by Mama Cass, with music and lyrics by John Barry and Hal David.
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We're No Angels (1955 film) We're No Angels is a 1955 Christmas comedy film starring an ensemble cast of Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, and Leo G. Carroll. Shot in both VistaVision and Technicolor, the Paramount Studios production was directed by Michael Curtiz, who had directed Bogart in "Casablanca" when both were under contract to Warner Brothers. It is one of Bogart's rare comedies.
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The Man Who Laughs (1928 film) The Man Who Laughs is a 1928 American silent film directed by the German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni. The film is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel of the same name and stars Mary Philbin as the blind Dea and Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine. The film is known for the grim carnival freak-like grin on the character Gwynplaine's face, which often leads it to be classified as a horror film. Film critic Roger Ebert stated, ""The Man Who Laughs" is a melodrama, at times even a swashbuckler, but so steeped in Expressionist gloom that it plays like a horror film."
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Roy Rowland (film director) Roy Rowland (December 31, 1910 – June 29, 1995) was an American film director. The New York-born director helmed a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s including "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes", "Meet Me in Las Vegas", "Rogue Cop", "The 5000 Fingers of Doctor T" and "The Girl Hunters". Rowland married Ruth Cummings, the niece of Louis B. Mayer and sister of Jack Cummings (MGM producer/director). They had one son, Steve Rowland, born in 1932, who later became a music producer in the UK, and has recently published his memoir "Hollywood Heat".
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Wallace Howe Wallace Howe (March 4, 1878, Fitchburg, Massachusetts – November 23, 1957 Los Angeles, California), born Orlando Wallace Howe, was an American film actor. He appeared in 104 films between 1918 and 1936, including many films with Harold Lloyd and Stan Laurel, and in short films with the original Our Gang.
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Harold Rosson Harold G. "Hal" Rosson, A.S.C. (April 6, 1895 – September 6, 1988) was an American cinematographer who worked during the early and classical Hollywood cinema. He is best known for his work on the 1939 fantasy film "The Wizard of Oz".
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Leonard Parker (actor) Leonard Rudy Parker, Jr., (born July 22, 1932) is an American actor in theater, film and television. He is known for his performance in the film "Nothing But a Man".
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Pardon Us Pardon Us is a 1931 American Pre-Code Laurel and Hardy film. It was the duo's first starring feature-length comedy film, produced by Hal Roach and Stan Laurel, directed by James Parrott, and originally distributed by MGM in 1931.
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Sidney M. Goldin Sidney M. Goldin, born Samuel Goldstein (March 25, 1878 – September 19, 1937) was an American Jewish silent film director as well as a prominent writer, actor and producer for Yiddish theater and Yiddish cinema during the early 20th century. During his career, he worked frequently with Molly Picon, Maurice Schwartz and Ludwig Satz in Europe and Palestine.
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Désiré (film) Désiré is a 1996 French film directed by Bernard Murat. The film is based on the play of the same name by Sacha Guitry.
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Abbott and Costello in Hollywood Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (on screen title Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood) is a 1945 black-and-white comedy film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Martin A. Gosch, directed by S. Sylvan Simon, that stars the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.
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Louis J. Gasnier Louis Joseph Gasnier (September 15, 1875 – February 15, 1963) was a French-born American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. A cinema pioneer, Gasnier shepherded the early career of comedian Max Linder, co-directed the enormously successful film serial "The Perils of Pauline" (1914) and capped his output with the notorious low-budget exploitation film "Reefer Madness" (1936) which was both a critical and box office failure.
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Meet Me in Las Vegas Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) is an MGM musical comedy produced by Joe Pasternak, directed by Roy Rowland, filmed in Eastman Color (credited as Metrocolor) and CinemaScope, and starring Dan Dailey and Cyd Charisse. The film has a running time of 112 minutes.
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Charade (1963 film) Charade is a 1963 Technicolor American romantic comedy/mystery film directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. The cast also features Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, and Jacques Marin. It spans three genres: suspense thriller, romance and comedy. Because Universal Pictures published the movie with an invalid copyright notice, the film entered the public domain in the United States immediately upon its release.
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Klondike (film) Klondike is a 1932 American Pre-Code film directed by Phil Rosen. The film is also known as The Doctor's Sacrifice in the United Kingdom. It was silent film star Priscilla Dean's final film.
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Plays and films of Sacha Guitry The French actor, writer, manager and director, Sacha Guitry had a prolific output of plays and films. His stage works range from historical dramas to contemporary light comedies. Some have musical scores, by composers including André Messager and Reynaldo Hahn. During the era of silent films Guitry avoided them, finding the lack of spoken dialogue fatal to dramatic impact. From the 1930s to the end of his life he enthusiastically embraced the cinema, making as many as five films in a single year.
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It Could Happen to You (1937 film) It Could Happen to You is a 1937 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen and written by Samuel Ornitz and Nathanael West. The film stars Alan Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Owen Davis Jr., Astrid Allwyn, Walter Kingsford and Al Shean. The film was released on June 28, 1937, by Republic Pictures.
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Phil Solomon (filmmaker) Phil Solomon is an American experimental filmmaker noted for his work with both film and video. Recently, Solomon has earned acclaim for a series of films that incorporate machinima made using games from the "Grand Theft Auto" series. His films are often described as haunting and lyrical.