Warner Bros.
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Woodfall Film Productions
The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century England.
Horizon Pictures
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Mirisch Company
When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
The Mirisch Company
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM); as An Arthur Freed Production
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
Horizon Pictures
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
Michael Anderson Company
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. He makes a £20,000 wager with four sceptical fellow members of the Reform Club (each contributing £5,000 to the bet) that he can arrive back eighty days from exactly 8:45 pm that evening."
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family. - You Can't Take It with You is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart and Edward Arnold.
The film was dapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. It received two Academy Awards out of seven nominations: Best Picture and Best Director for Frank Capra. This was Capra's third Oscar for Best Director in just five years."
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…
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.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
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.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes 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.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
I'll give you a definite maybe.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
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!
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
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.
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!
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
