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Robert Wagner-Dolores Hart "Sail a crooked ship" 1961, de Irving Brecher.
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Robert Wagner-Dolores Hart "Sail a crooked ship" 1961, de Irving Brecher.
Meet Me in St. Louis premiered in St. Louis, MO on 22 November 1944.
Based on Sally Benson's 1942 novel of the same name (which took her original 8 short stories that had been published in The New Yorker from June 1941 and May 1942, and added 4 more stories), 6 writers worked with Benson on the adaptation (only Irving Brecher and Fred Finklehoffe received on-screen credit), and Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin wrote "The Boy Next Door," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," and "The Trolley Song" for the film.
Meet Me in St. Louis was an enormous box office hit and received 4 Academy Award nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Song ("The Trolley Song"), Best Cinematography - Color (George Folsey), and Best Score (George Stoll). It did not receive an Oscar. 7-year-old Margaret O'Brien received an honorary Juvenile Academy Award for her work.
Director Vincente Minnelli began an affair with Judy Garland during the production (Minnelli was 19 years older than Garland) and they married in 1945.
Meet Me in St. Louis is now considered to be one of the best musicals ever made.
1951.
The Blacklisting of Canadian comedy writer Reuben Ship.
Robert Wagner and Frankie Avalon Sail A Crooked Ship (1961) Dir. Irving Brecher
"Untie me, you take over!"
Director Mervyn LeRoy, Screenwriter Irving Brecher and Carole Lombard review the script on the set of Fools for Scandal.
Bye Bye Birdie (1963). A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his "farewell" television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted.
This is complete bubblegum, but it’s a pretty fun little thing - high energy with a solid musical soundtrack and enough cheek to veer this side of ‘ho hum’. Plus Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke have delightful chemistry, and Ann-Margret’s performance has the bubbly charm of Olivia Newton John’s Sandy in Grease. It’s not exactly a good movie, but it’s a fair bit of fun. 6/10.
Robert Wagner-Dolores Hart "Sail a crooked ship" 1961, de Irving Brecher.
Frankie Avalon Sail A Crooked Ship (1961) Dir. Irving Brecher