Cecil B DeMille Productions
The Egyptian Prince, Moses, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people.
A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
"Marty" is a 1955 American romantic drama film directed by Delbert Mann. The screenplay was written by Paddy Chayefsky, expanding upon his 1953 teleplay of the same name. The film stars Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair. In addition to gaining an Academy Award for Best Picture, the film enjoyed international success, becoming the fourth American film to win the Cannes Film Festival, and to be awarded the Palme d'Or. Marty and The Lost Weekend (1945) are the only two films to win both organizations' grand prizes."
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. - On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, and, in her film debut, Eva Marie Saint. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. The film was suggested by "Crime on the Waterfront" by Malcolm Johnson, a series of articles published in November–December 1948 in the New York Sun which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, but the screenplay by Budd Schulberg is directly based on his own original story. The film focuses on union violence and corruption amongst longshoremen while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey."
The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair. - "The Life of Emile Zola" is an American biographical film about French author Émile Zola, played by Paul Muni and directed by William Dieterle. It has the distinction of being the second biographical film to win the Oscar for Best Picture. It premiered at the Los Angeles Carthay Circle Theatre to great success both critically and financially. Contemporary reviews cited it the best biographical film made up to that time. In 2000, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed. - One of the biggest successes in film in the 1930s and the pride of MGM at the time, it was acclaimed as the greatest musical biography to be made in Hollywood and still remains a standard in musical film making. It won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture for producer Hunt Stromberg, Best Actress for Luise Rainer, and Best Dance Direction for Seymour Felix, and was nominated for four others. Although the film is still praised for its lavish production and as a symbol of glamor and excess during the Golden Age of Hollywood, today The Great Ziegfeld is generally seen less favorably and is considered by many critics to be excessively showy and long at just under three hours."
In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love. - From "Here to Eternity" is a drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the novel by James Jones. The picture deals with the tribulations of three U.S. Army soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Frank Sinatra, stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Deborah Kerr and Donna Reed portray the women in their lives, and the supporting cast includes Ernest Borgnine, Philip Ober, Jack Warden, Mickey Shaughnessy, Claude Akins, and George Reeves."
The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle. - "The Greatest Show on Earth" is American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille; shot in Technicolor; and released by Paramount Pictures. Set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the film, narrated by producer/director, Cecil B. DeMille, stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring, and Charlton Heston as the circus manager running the show. James Stewart also stars in a supporting role as a mysterious clown who never removes his make-up, even between shows, while Dorothy Lamour and Gloria Grahame also play supporting roles."
Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. - "An American in Paris" is a 1951 American musical film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition "An American in Paris" by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, and Nina Foch, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner. The music is by George Gershwin, with lyrics by his brother Ira, with additional music by Saul Chaplin, the music director.
The story of the film is interspersed with dance numbers choreographed by Gene Kelly and set to Gershwin's music. Songs and music include "I Got Rhythm", "I'll Build A Stairway to Paradise", " 'S Wonderful", and "Love Is Here to Stay". The climax of the film is "The American in Paris" ballet, a 17-minute dance featuring Kelly and Caron set to Gershwin's "An American in Paris". The ballet sequence cost almost half a million dollars to shoot."
An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends. - The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star. Anne Baxter plays Eve Harrington, an ambitious young fan who subtly manuvers herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career and her personal relationships. The film co-stars George Sanders, Celeste Holm, and features Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe (in one of her earliest roles), Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates and Walter Hampden."
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout. - Don Birman is a struggling writer who deals with his writer's block through the bottle. He shares an apartment with his more responsible brother Nick, who is about to go on a weekend vacation. Nick is worried about leaving Don alone, but Don assures him he will be fine and will use the time alone to write. However, he is not fooling even himself, and plans to go on a bender. After drinking all the alcohol in the house, Don goes to a bar, and while his creativity seems to flow, things go from bad to worse."
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
