#philip stevenson

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[gregorygalloway]

The Story of G.I. Joe was released on 18 June 1945.

Independent producer Lester Cowan approached the US War Department in September 1943 in hopes of making a film based on Ernie Pyle's Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting as he traveled with C Company in the 18th Infantry of the US Army.

36-year-old Burgess Meredith was cast as Pyle, but Meredith was still serving as a Captain in the Army, and the Army refused to release him from active duty, until they were overruled by Presidential advisor Harry Hopkins. Meredith spent time with Pyle, who was recuperating from exhaustion in New Mexico (Pyle would return to cover the war in January 1945, and was killed by enemy fire on the small Japanese island of Ie Shima in April 1945).

The War Department also granted director William Wellman's request for 150 actual soldiers to appear in the film (all veterans of the Italian campaign covered in the film and waiting in California to be deployed to the Pacific Theater).

The Story of G.I. Joe was a commercial and critical success, and nominated for 4 Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor for Robert Mitchum (his only nomination) and Best Screenplay (Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson). Mitchum was drafted before the film was released and served as a medic in the Army at Fort MacArthur in California.

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Booklet cover for Philip Stevenson’s “A Complete History of Dreams”

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Jacket artwork for  Philip Stevenson box set, “A Complete History of Dreams” 2023

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Philip Stevenson, Azalea promo video, 2017

[ediblefoliage14]

Music of conviction and personality will always go on, but in this artistic end of days, where Jimi Hendrix is sold as nostalgia rather than art, and rock and roll, once rebellious, is so establishment that there's a Les Paul in every doctor's and lawyer's closet; the music that a lot of us grew up on has been so mollified we can barely recognize it.

Philip Stevenson from the foreword of THE DAILY ADVENTURES OF MIXERMAN