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Robert Towne (Chinatown, many others
William Goldman (Harper, Butch Cassidy, All the President's Men)
Frank Pearson (Dog Day Afternoon, many others)
Wendell Mayes (Advise and Consent, the Poseidon Adventure)
Francis Ford Coppola (The Great Gatsby, the Conversation)
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Let's not forget Charles Bracket and I.A.L. Diamond who were associated with Wilder at different times. Also, Raymond Chandler took a few swipes at screenwriting.
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What's interesting is the way studios deployed and arranged their 'stable' of writers and --something which would be unheard of today --allowed some writers to work repeatedly for any 'winning combination of director and actor.
One thing which is the same (betwixt the studio era and today) is the way that a big star can retain a persistent personal entourage which can take priority even over the hair/makeup/wardrobe people in the official crew for any picture. Marilyn Monroe had an advisor accompany her on her projects who could even override the director on which angle to shoot her face from.
Yeah. Some stars became associated with famous designers. Other stars just wanted Edith Head every picture. Which probably got thorny when they changed studios. Even on one of those one-off trades.
Jules Furthman. I didn't know that one. Shanghai Express is one of my favorite Von Sternberg/Dietrich collaborations.
Spencer wrote: "Yeah. Some stars became associated with famous designers. Other stars just wanted Edith Head every picture. Which probably got thorny when they changed studios. Even on one of those one-off trades."Speaking of designers, Audrey Hepburn was famous for her connection with Givenchy. In fact in, 'How to Steal a Million' when she's wearing some rather plain working-day clothes, Peter O'Toole comments that, 'she's giving Givenchy the day off.'
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques...
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But I myself have yet to experience it. We don't speak much about French cinema in this group (at least not yet) and its probably for reasons exactly like this. I've seen a fair amount and I have my favorites, but still am missing some major titles.
By the way? Has anyone here viewed 'Les Vampyrs'? It's available on Youtube; but it's an incredible nine hours long!
He certainly wrote or contributed to some of France's great film classics. I have seen L'Atalante and Les Enfants du Paradis but there are so many more that are worth looking for. Call me dumb but I did not know he was also a famous poet!
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It would be good if you could work it into an existing topic. There are some classic French films that need to be seen.
Feliks wrote: "As the article notes, 'Children of Paradise' is a stellar flick of World Cinema (that's world cinema with a capital 'W' and capital 'C')But I myself have yet to experience it. We don't speak much..."
I have seen the 1915 silent serial Les Vampires (not every episode) which is on Youtube. Is that the one you mean?
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At the top of this thread, notice how each screenwriter has 3, 4, or even 10 screenplay credits. That was how the big studios rewarded and groomed their stable of top talent.
In the post-studio era, the percentage of screenwriters who write a second screenplay ...which is turned into a second credit ...on their resume? Screamingly low.
It's astounding to me when some people insist we're better off.
Feliks wrote: "maybe we need a top ten french film list to see what each of us might be missing"about the only French film that come immediately to my mind that I've see a few times is, Alphaville.
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He talks about how today's 'cult of individualism' and 'fragmented society' is becoming too atomistic/granular for cinema to be effective any more.
https://tinyurl.com/rhuzsnf
Interesting read. thank for the link.this may be off topic, my brother went to Montgomery Ala. over the weekend to the ASF to see Alabama Story, he had breakfast with playwright Kennth Jones, my brother is going to put on the play in May at the Lincoln Museum in Springfield Il and he's all excited about it.
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Sidney Buchman:
(wrote for Capra)
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Holiday (1938)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Robert Riskin:
(wrote for Capra)
American Madness (1932)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
You Cant Take It With You (1938)
Meet John Doe (1941)
William Faulkner:
(associated with Hawks)
The Road to Glory (1936)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Clifford Odetts:
The General Died at Dawn (1936)
Humoresque (1946)
None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
Clash by Night (1952)
The Country Girl (1954)
The Big Knife (1955)
Bigger Than Life (1956)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
John Balderstone:
(associated with horror, fantasy)
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Gas Light (1944)
Edwin Justus Mayer:
(associated with Ernst Lubitsch)
Desire (1936)
A Royal Scandal (1945)
To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
Samuel Hoffenstein:
Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde (1932)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Laura (1944)
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, part of team)
Daniel Fuchs:
The Hard Way (1942)
Criss-Cross (1949)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
John Lee Mahin:
(wrote for Jean Harlow & Clark Gable)
Riffraff (1936)
China Seas (1935)
Bombshell (1933)
Red Dust (1932)
Too Hot To Handle (1930)
Test Pilot (1938)
Gone with the Wind (1939, part of team)
Boom Town (1940)
Frances Marion:
(wrote for Pickford, Jean Harlow, Marie Dressler)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
The Big House (1930)
Min and Bill (1930)
The Champ (1931)
Camille (1937)
Anita Loos:
San Francisco (1936)
Saratoga (1937)
The Women (1939)
June Mathis:
(wrote for deMille, Von Stroheim)
The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (1921)
Ben-Hur (1925)
Greed (1924)
C. Gardner Sullivan:
(associated with deMille)
The Buccaneer (1938)
Union Pacific (1939)
Northwest Mounted Police (1940)
Lamarr Trotti:
(associated with John Ford)
Judge Priest (1934)
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
Ben Hecht:
(wrote for Howard Hawks, Hitchcock)
Underworld (1927)
The Front Page (1931)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Barbary Coast (1935)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)
Casey Robinson:
(wrote for Bette Davis, Errol Flynn)
Its Love I'm After (1937)
Dark Victory (1939)
Now, Voyager (1942)
The Corn is Green (1945)
All This And Heaven Too (1940)
The Old Maid (1939)
Herman J. Mankiewicz:
(associated with Marx Bros)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Animal Crackers (1930)
Jeannie MacPherson:
(associated with Cecil B. deMille)
Manslaughter (1922)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
William LeBaron:
(associated with W.C. Fields, Mae West)
The Beautiful Rebel (1924)
The Old-Fashioned Way (1934)
Its a Gift (1934)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
I'm No Angel (1933)
Cimarron (1931)
John Paxton:
(associated with noir)
Cornered (1945)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Crossfire (1947)
Crack-up (1946)
Charles Schnee:
(associated with noir)
They Live By Night (1949)
I Walk Alone (1947)
Scene of the Crime (1949)
Daniel Mainwaring:
(associated with noir)
From Out of the Past (1947)
The Big Steal (1949)
The Phenix City Story (1955)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Jules Furthman:
(associated with Hawks, westerns, gangster, Von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich)
The Texan (1920)
The Iron Rider (1920)
The Big Punch (1921)
The Dragnet (1928)
Thunderbolt (1929)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Morocco (1930)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Body and Soul (1931)
The Blue Angel (1930, part of team)
The Way of All Flesh (1940)
Only Angels Have Wings (1940)
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
The Shanghai Express (1932)
The Peking Express (1951)
The Outlaw (1943)
Blonde Venus (1932)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Rio Bravo (1959)