Not many actors can boast that they've inspired a Bob Dylan song but Anthony Quinn - who passed away June 3rd at the age of 86 - was one of the select few. one of the most popular films of the '50s--a split Very few actors today can match Lemmon's range on the screen. When Sarah Jane runs from Annie, her distressed mother turns to Lora and asks, "How do you explain to your child that she was born to be hurt?" At the mortuary,. "I'm going up and up and up, and nobody's going to pull me down!" Imitation of Life. November 30, 1981. "My camera could easily have a love affair with you." Hunter insisted on maintaining a lavish production, despite a tight budget. In Missing (1982), directed by the uncompromising Costa-Gavras, Lemmon played a patriotic father searching for his kidnapped son in Latin America. Lemmon was truly a one-of-a-kind actor and his track record for acclaimed performances is truly remarkable: 8 Oscar nominations (he won Best Supporting Actor for Mister Roberts (1955) and Best Actor for Save the Tiger (1973), a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, 8 British Academy Award nominations, 4 Emmy Award nominations, numerous Golden Globe nominations, a two-time Best Actor winner at the Cannes Film Festival, the list goes on and on. The sometimes cynical comic sense of director Billy Wilder provided Lemmon with the perfect complement. Several collections of her work are available, most with mildly risque titles like I Lost It at the Movies, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Going Steady. Then she panicked and tried to return the $5,000 advance Harper & Bros. had paid for the book rights. Director Douglas Sirk's last film; he returned to the theater in Europe. Since she was diagnosed with throat cancer and kidney failure in 2000, Dee had been in and out of hospitals for her failing health. She then returned to the set and completed the scene perfectly. He combined elements of screwball and slapstick comedy with his own self-deprecating humor to create satiric portraits of the contemporary American male. material -- at least for a matinee." In It Should Happen to You, Holliday plays a struggling actress who soon wins fast fame as the product of promotion. by Margarita Landazuri & Frank Miller, In conjunction with the film version, a new paperback edition of Imitation of Life hit bookstores, selling half a million copies. Director Douglas Sirk worked gently with his actors. Missing was inspired by a true story - the production was condemned by the Reagan administration and awarded the Golden Palm at the Cannes film festival. Turner agreed, and the film succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams. (1952) provided him a wonderful role which he used to win a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. Along the way, Quinn also dabbled in professional boxing (he quit after his 17th match, the first he lost) and street-corner preaching. Directors Michael Anderson Vincente Minnelli Writers Rosamond Marshall Robert Thom Stars Robert Wagner Natalie Wood Susan Kohner Quinn was born April 21, 1915 in Mexico. Director Douglas Sirk suggested changing the leading lady from a businesswoman to an actress. Things." Though The Apartment was a comic success, with each passing year the film's serious side seems even more dark and derisive. Best Known For: Natalie Wood was an actress who starred in 'Rebel Without a Cause' and 'West Side Story.' She died tragically, drowning during a boating trip in 1981. She met Darin in 1960 in Portofino, Italy, where they were both cast in Come September with Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida as the older romantic couple. The Tribune is refusing all advertising of it and will picket it in the Los Angeles area and call upon the N.A.A.C.P. Only producer Ross Hunter was consistently delivering solid box office returns. Screenplay: Eleanore Griffin, Allan Scott, based on the novel by Fannie Hurst Entertaining, Together they made seven films, but it was their first, Some Like It Hot (1959), that captured the sheer comic genius of their collaborations together. As recently as 1995, readers of the New York Daily News voted Imitation of Life a place among their ten favorite films. by Michael T. Toole, PAULINE KAEL 1919-2001 The Apartment (1960) focused on a working stiff who lends his home to his supervisors for their extramarital affairs. Yet despite her competency as actress, her career never regained its footing, and she appeared in only a few television movies later on: The Daughters of Joshua Cabe (1972), Fantasy Island (1977). Hollywood Reporter noted that in the novel on which the film is based, and in the 1934 film adaptation, the character played by Lana Turner "combined her business acumen with a recipe for pancakes invented by a Negro woman and reaped a fortune. He continued the same mix of classics and best-forgotten quickies throughout the 1960s and '70s. mouth." Actor who got the part: Sandra Dee. Director Douglas Sirk Writers Eleanore Griffin Allan Scott Fannie Hurst Stars Lana Turner John Gavin Sandra Dee See production, box office & company info Watch on Prime Video rent/buy from $3.99 More watch options She was meant to be an "executive consultant" at Paramount but actually making movies is quite a different matter than writing about them so Kael lasted only five months. Hunter offered Turner the starring role in a remake of Imitation of Life (1934). He was a fixture in movies during the 1950s, playing an assortment of heartthrobs and borderline tough guys. O'Connor even auditioned for the part of the Skipper in the TV series, Gilligan's Island, but it was his role as Archie Bunker in a 1971 sitcom that made him a star. Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Richard H. Riedel TIL that everyone wears Crocs in the 2006 movie Idiocracy because the costume designer had a limited shoe budget, and thought the cheap plastic shoes made by the then startup company were futuristic yet too stupid looking to ever become popular in real life molestation by her stepfather, anorexia, drug use and alcoholism, that had haunted her her entire life. graceful level twenty-five years ago." Wyler for Ben-Hur (1959). Both Susan Kohner and Juanita Moore were nominated for Golden Globes for Best Illicit love and the corruption of big business might not seem to be the stuff of hit comedies, but Wilder and Lemmon found humor in the most unlikeliest of places. Ross Hunter wanted to update the story, making the leading character an actress instead of a businesswoman, but keeping the race issue and the conflicts between mothers and daughters. This video shows clips from the original 1934 film "Imitation of Life" directed by John Stall . Imitation of Life became Universal's biggest moneymaker to date, and a 1995 poll by the New York Daily News still ranked it as one of the top-ten all-time favorite films. Later, Lemmon claimed that he learned more about comic technique by watching these Chaplin, Keaton and Harold Lloyd two-reelers than acting school could have ever taught him. Lemmon plays her levelheaded boyfriend but finds himself on the sidelines when the suave and sophisticated Peter Lawford appears on the scene. For Lana Turner, that hit a little too close to home, and she hesitated. previous biographies of movies: All About All About In New York, the film premiered at the Roxy, the same theatre at which the 1934 version had opened. Todd Haynes' Far from Heaven (2002), starring Julianne Moore, is a pastiche of scenes and themes from Sirk's films. "You know I still have you in my blood, don't you?" Principal Cast: Lana Turner (Lora Meredith), John Gavin (Steve Archer), Sandra Dee (Susie, age 16), Juanita Moore (Annie Johnson), Susan Kohner (Sara Jane, age 18), Dan O'Herlihy (David Edwards), Robert Alda (Allen Loomis). (It also produced one of TV's oddest spinoffs in1994's 704 Hauser about a multi-racial family living in Archie Bunker's old house. (A branch of the Los Angeles County Public Library now occupies the site of Quinn's childhood home; in 1981 it was renamed in his honor.) It was Wright in fact who suggested the possibility of acting to Quinn and even paid for an operation to cure a speech impediment. Two years later legendary editor William Shawn hired Kael as film critic for The New Yorker, completing her jump into the limelight. Her sons, Chris and Paul Weitz, are film producers/directors best known for the American Pie films and About a Boy (2002). Born to be Hurt will be available from most major bookstores and online book retailers on February 17th. (Kohner was like a sexier, less delicate, even more on-the-edge Natalie Wood. (The idea for the book was born when Hurst traveled with black author Zora Neale Hurston and encountered racism, although the story was not remotely based on either of their lives.) In the early Sixties she engaged in an infamous and surprisingly bitter debate with critic Andrew Sarris among others about the merits of auteurism, the French-born philosophy that believes the director is the chief creative person behind any film. Rosie, and Doctor, You've Got To Be Kidding (both 1967) were pretty dreadful and were disasters at the box-office; and her divorce from Bobby Darin that same year, put a dent in her personal life, so Dee wisely took a sabbatical from the limelight for a few years. by Frank Miller, Made for $2 million, Imitation of Life grossed $6.4 million during its Cinematography: Russell Metty With Sirk's other melodramas, Imitation of Life has become one of the central films for proponents of the auteur theory, who point to his filmmaking technique as a clear reflection of his personality and his attitude toward the often exaggerated soap opera plots in his films. Lemmon won his second Academy Award for the film. 2023 Turner Classic Movies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. By using this site, you agree to our updated. He also occasionally played Helen Hunt's father on Mad About You. You name it, it's got it!" Lora and David argue when she decides to appear in another writer's drama, but her performance is brilliant, and this play, too, becomes an instant hit. She still kept up with movies though, loving such smaller films as Vanya on 42nd Street and actors like Jim Carrey (who "has practically kept movies alive the past few years" she said in 1998). Natalie Wood first saw Robert Wagner when she was just 10 years old and swore she was "going to marry him" someday, per People. Not only could she not risk another flop, but she wasn't sure she was ready to go back to work. These Natalie Wood massive butt photos are positive to depart you mesmerized and awestruck. Despite its success, it was also Sirk's last commercial feature. After Lora is cast and the play and its new leading actress are hugely successful, the papers report that "a new star is born" on Broadway. The sometimes cynical comic sense of director Billy Wilder provided Lemmon with the perfect complement. - Halliwell's Film & Video Guide (HarperPerennial). Turner hesitated about accepting the role, fearing that the combination of the scandal and the recent financial disappointment of Another Time, Another Place (1958) had put her in a very tenuous position. Director and comic star went on to make five more films: Irma la Douce (1963), The Fortune Cookie (1966), Avanti! Lemmon brought a new comic persona to Hollywood films. Is it true? Even though she was currently the subject of a major scandal after daughter Cheryl Crane killed Turner's lover, mobster Johnny Stompanato, Hunter insisted on offering her the role. picture and a dark commentary on ambition, motherhood, Though The Apartment was a comic success, with each passing year the film's serious side seems even more dark and derisive. Was considered to play the role of the young daughter of Lana Turner in the classic melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk. Susie (Sandra Dee) and Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) are now teens, Lora (Lana Turner) now a Broadway star and Annie (Juanita Moore) still her . She was only five when she entered the 2nd grade. Lemmon brought a new comic persona to Hollywood films. Carroll O'Connor - who died June 21st at the age of 76 - will be best remembered for portraying Archie Bunker on TV's All in the Family but his career actually was much more extensive. "I think it's impeccably made Hollywood trash - a watchable, laughable, Lana Turner was back on top, and a rich woman as well. Fannie Hurst's novel, Imitation of Life (1933), was the story of two single mothers, one white and one black, who join forces and become successful businesswomen. "Miss Turner and the others act unreally and elaborately[They] do not Closed captioning. From Broadway and early TV appearances to Hollywood, Lemmon moved West to make his screen debut in It Should Happen to You (1954), opposite Judy Holliday in a variation of her 'dumb blonde' persona that had won her an Oscar for Born Yesterday (1952). Landmarks, Breakthroughs and Milestones in Black Film History, a five-week series, will run through March 14 at Film Forum 2, 209 West Houston Street, Manhattan. Quinn directed his only film in 1958, The Buccaneer, a commercial failure he later attributed to producer Cecil DeMille's interference. At a suburban theatre in the Philadelphia area, the manager stood in the lobby at the film's end with a box of Kleenex for sobbing patrons. ANTHONY QUINN, 1915-2001 Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc. Hollywood, California, United States; Los Angeles--Moulin Rouge nightclub, California, United States, SYNOPSIS The Samuel Goldwyn Theater is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. It was Wright in fact who suggested the possibility of acting to Quinn and even paid for an operation to cure a speech impediment. Few films inspire the devotion of Imitation of Life, His parents were involved in Pancho Villa's revolutionary struggle and must have made a striking couple since the father was half Irish and mother Mexican Indian. The series lasted until 1979 and brought O'Connor four Emmys, even leading to a four-year spinoff Archie Bunker's Place starring O'Connor. She wrote for several small publications and did a radio show on the groundbreaking network KPFA before finally landing a job at the high-profile McCall's only to be fired shortly after she panned The Sound of Music (1965) (which she called The Sound of Money). But that's just one of many incidents in a life that can only be described as colorful. His first was Man Afraid (1957) but Donahue also made brief TV appearances at the time on shows like Wagon Train. Email Address: Sign me up! "Sirk's last movie in Hollywood is a coldly brilliant weepie, a rags-to-riches According to Daily Variety, Universal encountered some resistance to the promotion of the film and tailored its advertising campaign for the South, where, a studio representative said, "white southerners avoid films that are advertised as dealing with the race problem." All in the Family was an American version of the British sitcom Till Death Do Us Part that met some initial resistance (ABC rejected the first two pilots) but quickly captivated American audiences and became the country's top-rated TV show. Not only was there a music system in her dressing room, but Hunter even hired somebody to operate it for her. The series lasted until 1979 and brought O'Connor four Emmys, even leading to a four-year spinoff Archie Bunker's Place starring O'Connor. (Director Elia Kazan tried to start a rivalry between the two actors but they were great admirers of each other.) initial U.S. release, placing number five on the year's list of top box-office Kael never shied away from controversy as two other events proved. Released in United States March 1977 (Shown at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Double Vision-Two different classics made from the same story) March 9-27, 1977. Imitation of Life. director Sirk's masterpiece. The opening and closing cast credits vary in order. This picture, Douglas Sirk's last feature, was a remake of the 1934 Universal film of the same title directed by John M. Stahl and starring Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40). Pauline Kael, who died September 3rd at the age of 82, was one of the handful of film critics who made a noticable impact on the way we view movies. Producer: Ross Hunter She had her named changed to Sandra Dee (a stage name combining her shortened first name and using her stepfather's surname initial D to sign Enter Ross Hunter, producer of lavish women's pictures for Universal, who had breathed new life into the careers of aging stars like Jane Wyman and Barbara Stanwyck. Oddly enough, in Viva Zapata! One of the most mysterious aspects of Natalie's death is the setting, as Entertainment Weekly reported back in 1992. 1959, World premiere in Chicago, IL: 17 Mar 1959; Los Angeles opening: 20 Mar 1959; New York opening: 17 Apr 1959. According to August 1958 Hollywood Reporter news items, portions of the picture were shot at the Warner Bros. studio, the Methodist Church in Hollywood, CA, and at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Los Angeles. Staggs, the author of All About "All About Eve" Quinn was a pope in The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), an Islamic leader in The Message (1976), a thinly disguised Aristotle Onassis in The Greek Tycoon (1978) and an assortment of gangsters, con men, military leaders and what have you. The Apartment (1960) focused on a working stiff who lends his home to his supervisors for their extramarital affairs. At the time, Hollywood didn't release films to black theatres until they had played out in other markets. She was best known for ingenue roles that traded on her youthful appeal. It had no cast members from the earlier series and only lasted six episodes.) Quinn again won Best Supporting Actor playing painter Paul Gauguin Lust for Life (1956) which at the time was the shortest on-screen time to win an acting Oscar. C-125m. Later, Lora invents a lie that gets her into the office of Allen Loomis, a well-known theatrical agent, but when he tries to make love to her, arguing that a successful actress must be willing to satisfy such requests, she angrily leaves. Natalie Wood was 42 when she died. "When passed before the moviegoer's eyes, it may force theatre owners to From poverty and childhood accidents to brutal abuse and depressive episodes, here are some heartbreaking details about Natalie Wood's life. He always used real flowers on the sets, and the jewelry was the real thing, too, supplied by Laykin et Cie. She is survived by her son Dodd; and two granddaughters -Alexa and Olivia. ANTHONY QUINN, 1915-2001 (It also produced one of TV's oddest spinoffs in1994's 704 Hauser about a multi-racial family living in Archie Bunker's old house. Her next film, The Reluctant Debutante, a bubbly romantic comedy with Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall and John Saxon, proved Dee to be adept in light comedy. Cast & Crew Read More Douglas Sirk Director Lana Turner Lora Meredith John Gavin Steve Archer Sandra Dee Susie Meredith, age sixteen Susan Kohner Sarah Jane [Johnson], age eighteen Robert Alda Allen Loomis Photos & Videos View All Born as Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on July 20, 1938 in San Francisco to Russian immigrant dad and mom, she was an American actress. "I'm white. Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Imitation Of Life (1959), Alicia Malone Intro -- Imitation Of Life (1959), Imitation Of Life (1959) -- (Movie Clip) A Maid To Live In, Imitation Of Life (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Ten Seconds Before You Die, Apr Billy Wilder and Lemmon's lifelong comic foil Walter Matthau (nine collaborations with Lemmon in 32 years, including their most popular film, The Odd Couple, 1968) brought some of the comedian's finest funny moments to the screen. personality drama that's both an irresistible women's The author combines vast research, extensive interviews Kael was born June 19, 1919 in Petaluma, California but moved with her family to San Francisco during her teens. Natalie Zacharenko (later Natasha Gurdin) was born of Russian immigrants. Her personal life took a surprising turn when she hooked up with singer Bobby Darin. He also occasionally played Helen Hunt's father on Mad About You. While Lora is filming in Italy, Steve looks after Susie, and the eager teenager soon falls in love with him. Whether playing a cross-dressing jazz bassist or a bickering roommate, Lemmon has kept his fans in stitches for fifty years. -- Dan O'Herlihy, as David Edwards, dismissing Turner's decision to tackle a serious drama. Supporting Actress, with Kohner winning the award. Along the way, Quinn also dabbled in professional boxing (he quit after his 17th match, the first he lost) and street-corner preaching. Join 15 other subscribers He signed with Warner Brothers in 1959 and immediately jumped to stardom in films like A Summer Place and Imitation of Life (both 1959). Lemmon won his second Academy Award for the film. Lemmon plays her levelheaded boyfriend but finds himself on the sidelines when the suave and sophisticated Peter Lawford appears on the scene. She had been hospitalized for the last two weeks for treatment of kidney disease, and had developed pneumonia. They lost to Shelley Winters in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). Quinn also appeared on stage in 1936 playing opposite Mae West. Lemmon entered the world in a completely novel fashion; he was born prematurely in an elevator in Boston in 1925. Released in United States Winter January 1, 1959. Tragically, Ms. Dee died on February 20 at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks. By Margarita Landazuri. It was made into a film in 1934, starring Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers, directed by John Stahl. Quinn's acting debut was in 1936 initially in a handful of barely noticable spots as an extra until he landed a speaking role in Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman, supposedly on the recommendation of the film's star, Gary Cooper. Rather than dictating the way a scene should be played, he would take each actor aside, suggest what he wanted and ask how he or she felt about it. Donahue was actually Merle Johnson Jr, born in New York City on Jan 27, 1936. For more information, call (310) 247-3600 or visit www.oscars.org. The characters lived together, loved one another and faced tragedy through their respective daughters. Agent Henry Willson had hoped that new client Troy Donahue would fare as well working with Sirk as had his most famous client, Rock Hudson. Sirk is able to make such a devastatingly embittered and pessimistic movie."
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