Princess of Tap Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Many Hollywood moguls were not impressed with film directors. David O. Selznick tried to mini-manage directors, even the great Hitchcock. The reoccurring Wars of animosity at Columbia between Harry Cohen and Frank Capra are legendary. It was left to the French, to really explain and prove why film directors are key to film production. Even though it's a collaborative art, Truffaut and others wrote in the Cahiers du Cinema that the film director who usually wrote the script and supervised the mise en scène was the chief artist of cinema. Hitchcock, has the reputation that he has today,in part, from the research and writings of Director François Truffaut. So this thread is about and for all film directors. The first question is: Who was the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America? What about a two-fer? And who was the second woman to join the Directors Guild of America? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 Hint-- the second one was a famous actress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Dorothy Arzner and Ida Lupino? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 Yes, Lawrence and they made some pretty good movies too. Arzner was famous for Craig 's wife, starring Rosalind Russell and Christopher strong, starring Katharine Hepburn. My favorite Lupino movie is The Bigamist, starring Edmond O'Brien. The critics loved The Hitchhiker: a noir film that she directed also starring O'Brien with William Talman as the hitchhiker. Lawrence, it's your turn-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Okay, since this is a new thread, I'll do an easy one: This blacklisted director went to work in Europe to much success, even directing his future wife to an Oscar nomination. Name the director, his wife, and the film she was nominated for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 Lawrence, I don't know much about the blacklist in Hollywood. But this made me think about Never on Sunday. I've never seen the movie, but in France the song is very popular and people sing it in Greek and in French. So I believe that Jules Dassin was blacklisted and directed Melina Mercouri in Never on Sunday. I can remember that the movie got a number of Oscar nominations at the time, including the song. I know that they were married, but I don't remember when they got married. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 You are very correct, Princess! It's all yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 This French film director had a career in France and in the United States. One of his French film classics co-starred a legendary Hollywood silent movie director. Can you name him and the legendary director who he directed in a French movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Jean Renoir directed Erich von Stroheim in Grand Illusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 Lawrence, I had to study that movie in English class in college. It was really a cool class! Lawrence, have you got another one for us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 This alliteratively named director started out as a prop boy in the 1920's before graduating to a very successful tenure as a screenwriter in the 1930's. He made the jump to directing in 1943, eventually directing 30 films, including a trio of highly successful teen romantic dramas for Warner Brothers. Name this director and the 3 teen romances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 I don't know anything about him except this is what I used to watch when I wanted to be a teenager - - the Warner Brothers stuff with Troy Donahue Sandra Dee and Connie Stevens - - Summer Place and Parrish was directed by Delmer Daves. Ps Susan Slade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 You're too good for me, Princess! You're right, of course, and the floor is yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 Lawrence, you really had me guessing on that Never on Sunday question. It may have been easy for you, but it was hard for me. Next-- This director started out as a cinematographer. He was an outstanding cinematographer of the golden era and was much favoured by a legendary actress. He evolved into a director and was noted for film noir. Can you name the director, the legendary actress and, of course, one of the films he directed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Is it William H. Daniels, personal cinematographer to Greta Garbo, and later director of such films as LURED and THE NAKED CITY? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 Lawrence, you have an excellent answer. Do you remember that one long close up in Queen Christina by William Daniels? It was breathtaking. Since your answer is not the same as mine, I'm going to keep mine for another time. Lawrence, C'est à vous/ it's all yours - - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Ok, this one is complicated, so be prepared. Roger Corman, the legendary b-movie impresario, has a reputation for discovering fresh new talent to work on his films, many of whom go on to fame and fortune. One such future Oscar winning writer-director was tasked with taking a Soviet science fiction movie and adding new footage, re-editing it, and dubbing it into English. He did so, and the subsequent renamed film was released. Years later, this same Soviet SF film had it's footage spliced into yet another Soviet SF film, dubbed and then released with another title. Finally, that second splice job was re-edited yet again, adding new English footage (featuring a b-movie glamour girl), and retitled for a third time, all by yet another future Oscar nominated writer-director. Name the two future acclaimed directors, and all three of the English-language films. Bonus points for naming the director of the second version, the glamour girl in the third, and either of the original Soviet films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I should give this hint: the films in question were released in 1960's. The two acclaimed directors had their career peaks in the 1970's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I'll finish this so the thread can move on. Francis Ford Coppola took the Russian NEBO ZOVYOT and made BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN (1962). That was mixed, by Curtis Harrington, with the Russian PLANETA BUR and made into VOYAGE TO THE PREHISTORIC PLANET (1965). Finally,that was refashioned, by Peter Bogdanovich, into PLANET OF THE PREHISTORIC WOMEN (1968), featuring new footage of Mamie Van Doren. Open thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted January 10, 2016 Author Share Posted January 10, 2016 This Oscar winning classic director was born in Austria. He started his career there as a screenwriter. With the rise of the Nazis he came to Hollywood. He continued his career in Hollywood and had a successful screenwriting career. But he was sad to see so many of his scripts changed by the director of the film. So he decided to become a director who wrote his own screenplays. He directed his first film in the forties with a very famous female movie star as lead. Can you name this very famous director, the first film he directed, the star of that film and your favorite film that he directed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starliteyes Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Billy Wilder. The first film he directed was The Major and the Minor with Ginger Rogers. It's hard to name a favorite because he directed a lot of good ones, but I think I would go with The Apartment, with Some Like It Hot not far behind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted January 10, 2016 Author Share Posted January 10, 2016 Star, you are right about Billy Wilder on all counts. My favorite screenplay is Ninotchka, but with the movies, it's hard to say; it's always the last one you just saw. But I have to go with Sunset Boulevard and Double Indemnity. Star, it's all yours - - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starliteyes Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 This director’s mother’s first cousin was the head of Universal Studios and he used that family connection to get started in the film industry, starting out as an errand boy in Universal’s New York offices. His directorial career spanned 45 years and he was nominated for Best Director 12 times, winning the Oscar on 3 occasions. Can you name him and the 3 pictures for which he won? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 That would be William Wyler, who won for "Mrs. Miniver", "The Best Years Of Our Lives", and "Ben-Hur". Those movies also won the Best Picture Oscars for those years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starliteyes Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 That would be correct, Miles. The thread is yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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