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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780872003321

Autore

Mirisch Walter

Titolo

I thought we were making movies, not history [[electronic resource] /] / Walter Mirisch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-69749-8

9786612697494

0-299-22643-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (501 p.)

Collana

Wisconsin film studies

Disciplina

791.4302/33092

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Soggetti

Motion picture producers and directors - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Filmography: p. 389-414.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Foreword, by Sidney Poitier""; ""Foreword, by Elmore Leonard""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue""; ""1. My Family""; ""2. The University of Wisconsin""; ""3. Los Angeles and Monogram""; ""4. Allied Artists""; ""5. The 1950's""; ""6. The Screen Producers Guild""; ""7. Back at Allied Artists""; ""8. Moulin Productions, Inc.""; ""9. William Wyler and Friendly Persuasion and Billy Wilder and Love in the Afternoon""; ""10. On Our Own""; ""11. Billy Wilder and Some Like It Hot""; ""12. John Ford and The Horse Soldiers""; ""13. John Sturges and The Magnificent Seven""

""14. The 1960's""""15. West Side Story""; ""16. One, Two, Three and Other Projects""; ""17. William Wyler, Elvis Presley, and John Sturges""; ""18. A Big Hit and a Few Misses""; ""19. Blake Edwards and The Pink Panther""; ""20. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences""; ""21. 633 Squadron, a New Corporate Entity, and Unrealized Projects ""; ""22. The Start of a Jinx and Cinerama""; ""23. Hawaii""; ""24. A New Relationship with Norman Jewison""; ""25. In the Heat of the Night""; ""26. A Western, a Comedy, a Drama, and a Caper""; ""27. Personal Matters-Familial and Corporate""

""28. Dark Days for the Film Industry""""29. Billy Wilder and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and Avanti!""; ""30. Fiddler on the Roof""; ""31. Goodbye to United Artists""; ""32. Hello to Universal""; ""33. The Return



of Peter Sellers""; ""34. The 1980's and 1990's""; ""Epilogue""; ""Filmography""; ""Career Milestones and Awards""; ""Index""