Edward Goyle was the set decorator on which epic drama film based on a novel by James A. Michener?
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Edward G. Boyle The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle (30 January 1899 – 17 February 1977) kicked off in the early 1930s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films. His successful filmography includes such credits as an uncredited assist on the wartorn old South in Victor Fleming's classic "Gone with the Wind" (1939), the Nazi-influenced designs for Charles Chaplin's fictional country of Tomania in "The Great Dictator" (1940), the gritty boxing world in Robert Rossen's "Body and Soul" (1947) and Mark Robson's "Champion" (1949), an elegant Bournemouth seaside hotel in "Separate Tables" (1958), island life at the turn of the century in George Roy Hill's "Hawaii" (1966) and the sophisticated demi-monde of the multi-millionaire lifestyles in Norman Jewison's "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968).
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Hawaii (1966 film) Hawaii is a 1966 American epic drama film directed by George Roy Hill and based on the novel of the same name by James A. Michener. It tells the story of an 1820s Yale University divinity student (Max von Sydow) who, accompanied by his new bride (Julie Andrews), becomes a Calvinist missionary in the Hawaiian Islands. It was filmed at Old Sturbridge Village, in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and on the islands of Kauai and Oahu in Hawaii.
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Edward Stewart (set decorator) Edward Stewart (January 20, 1915 – August 30, 1999) was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.
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The Deadly Affair The Deadly Affair is a 1966 British espionage–thriller film, based on John le Carré's first novel "Call for the Dead". The film stars James Mason, Harry Andrews, Simone Signoret and Maximilian Schell and was directed by Sidney Lumet from a script by Paul Dehn. In it George Smiley, the central character of the novel and many other le Carré books, is renamed Charles Dobbs as Paramount, which owned the film rights of their recently filmed "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", had the rights to the Smiley character. The soundtrack was composed by Quincy Jones, and the bossa nova theme song, "Who Needs Forever", is performed by Astrud Gilberto.
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The Gypsy Moths The Gypsy Moths is a 1969 American drama film, based on the novel of the same name by James Drought and directed by John Frankenheimer. The film tells the story of three barnstorming skydivers and their effect on a Midwestern American town, focusing on the differences in values between the town folk and the hard-living skydivers.
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Catch-22 (film) Catch-22 is a 1970 American black comedy war film adapted from the novel of the same name by Joseph Heller. In creating a black comedy revolving around the "lunatic characters" of Heller's satirical anti-war novel set at a fictional World War II Mediterranean base, director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry (also in the cast) worked on the film script for two years, converting Heller's complex novel to the medium of film.
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Gone with the Wind (film) Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, from her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, to her marriage to Rhett Butler. The leading roles are portrayed by Vivien Leigh (Scarlett), Clark Gable (Rhett), Leslie Howard (Ashley), and Olivia de Havilland (Melanie).
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Life's Shop Window Life's Shop Window is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Claire Whitney and Stuart Holmes. It is a film adaptation of the eponymous 1907 novel by Annie Sophie Cory. The film depicts the story of English orphan Lydia Wilton (Whitney), and her husband Bernard Chetwin (Holmes). Although Wilton's marriage is legitimate, it was conducted in secret, and she is accused of having a child out of wedlock. Forced to leave England, she reunites with her husband in Arizona. There, she is tempted by infidelity with an old acquaintance, Eustace Pelham, before seeing the error of her ways and returning to her family.
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Forrest Compton Forrest Compton (born September 15, 1925) is an American actor. He is known for portraying attorney Mike Karr, the central character on the long-running soap opera" The Edge of Night", on which he appeared from 1970-1984, and battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Edward Gray on the 1960s sitcom "Gomer Pyle, USMC". He had a recurring role in 1959-1960 in the NBC series "The Troubleshooters" with Keenan Wynn, Bob Mathias, and Chet Allen. His other television credits include "The Twilight Zone", "77 Sunset Strip", "My Three Sons", "Mayberry RFD", "Mannix", "Hogan's Heroes", "That Girl", "Another World", "Loving", "One Life to Live", "As the World Turns" and "Ed". He also portrayed President Flynn in the 1991 Christopher Walken film "McBain". Married to the former Jeanne Sementini on September 28, 1975, Compton has not acted since 2002.
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The Beautiful and Damned (film) The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by William A. Seiter and released by Warner Bros. The film, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel "The Beautiful and Damned", starred Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost.
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Jassy (film) Jassy is a 1947 British film melodrama, based on a novel by Norah Lofts. It is a Gainsborough melodrama, the only one to be made in Technicolor. It was the last "official" Gainsborough melodrama.
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Spoilers of the Forest Spoilers of the Forest is a 1957 American drama film directed by Joseph Kane and written by Bruce Manning. The film stars Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, Ray Collins, Hillary Brooke, Edgar Buchanan and Carl Benton Reid. The film was released on April 5, 1957, by Republic Pictures.
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Devil on Horseback Devil on Horseback is a 1954 British drama film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Googie Withers, John McCallum and Jeremy Spenser. Its plot involves a boy who pursues his ambition to be a jockey. The screenplay was by Scottish writer Neil Paterson. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios with sets designed by Michael Stringer.
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Nights and Days Nights and Days (Polish: "Noce i dnie" ) is a 1975 Polish film directed by Jerzy Antczak. This epic family drama was based on Maria Dąbrowska's novel "Noce i dnie", and was described by "The Washington Post" as "Poland's Gone With the Wind". Set in Kalisz and the Kalisz Region in the second half of the 19th century after the failure of the January Uprising in 1863, the film presents a unique portrait of an oppressed society, life in exile, and the confiscation of private property as told through the loves and struggles of the Niechcic family. This sweeping historical epic was the highest-grossing film in Poland's history upon its release and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1977. The film score was composed by Waldemar Kazanecki, which includes a Viennese waltz that is frequently played at Polish weddings as the first dance of bride and groom.
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Evangeline (1913 film) Evangeline is a 1913 Canadian drama film based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem of the same name. It is known as the first feature-length dramatic movie filmed in Canada, and it was very successful there and in the United States. Directed by Edward P. Sullivan and William Cavanaugh, it was filmed in Nova Scotia. This film was the first of six features made between 1913 and 1914 by the Canadian Bioscope Company of Halifax. It is now considered to be a lost film.
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Under Capricorn Under Capricorn is a 1949 British historical thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a couple in Australia who started out as lady and stable boy in Ireland, and who are now bound together by a horrible secret. The film was based on the novel "Under Capricorn" (1937) by Helen Simpson, with a screenplay by James Bridie. It was adapted to the screen by Hume Cronyn. This was Hitchcock's second film in Technicolor, and like the preceding color film "Rope" (1948), it also featured 10-minute takes.
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Katherine Orrison Katherine Orrison (born November 18, 1948) is an American set decorator, art director, producer, costumer, author and film historian specializing in the films of Cecil B. DeMille, the life and career of actor Henry Wilcoxon, and the epic film "The Ten Commandments".
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Deerslayer (1943 film) The Deerslayer is a 1943 American Western film. It is based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper. It stars Bruce Kellogg and Jean Parker, and was directed by Lew Landers.
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Caravans (novel) Caravans, a novel by James A. Michener, was published in 1963.
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Foxfire (1955 film) Foxfire is a 1955 American drama romance film directed by Joseph Pevney starring Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler and Dan Duryea. The movie was loosely based on a best-selling 1950 novel by Anya Seton.
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The True Story of Jesse James The True Story of Jesse James is a 1957 American Western drama film adapted from Henry King's 1939 film "Jesse James", which was only loosely based on James' life. It was directed by Nicholas Ray, with Robert Wagner portraying Jesse James and Jeffrey Hunter starring as Frank James. Filming took place during 1955. Originally titled The James Brothers in the United Kingdom, the film focused on the relationship between the two James brothers during the last 18 years of Jesse James' life.
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To Have and to Hold (1922 film) To Have and to Hold was a 1922 American silent drama film. Based on the 1900 novel of the same name, the film was directed by George Fitzmaurice and starred Bert Lytell and Betty Compson.