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Pictures at a Revolution

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by Mark Harris


  Davis, Ossie

  Davis, Sammy Jr.

  Day, Doris

  The Defiant Ones

  DeMille, Cecil B.

  Directors Guild

  The Dirty Dozen

  Disney, Walt

  Disney Company

  Dix, William

  Doctor Dolittle. See also Harrison, Rex

  alternatives to Rex Harrison considered

  background

  Bricusse succeeds Lerner as writer

  budget and financing

  casting

  Castle Combe shoot

  critical reaction

  final shoot in LA

  free-dinner campaign

  music

  Oscar campaign

  as Oscar contender

  popularity

  previewing

  rehearsals

  St. Lucia shoot

  ” Talk to the Animals” (song)

  Doctor Dolittle books

  Doctor Zhivago

  Dougherty, Marion

  Douglas, Melvyn

  Dr. Strangelove

  Duke, Patty

  Dunaway, Faye

  as 1967 first-time Academy Award nominee

  background

  on Bonnie and Clyde set

  casting

  and The Happening

  and Hurry Sundown

  performance as Bonnie Parker

  publicity for Bonnie and Clyde

  and success of Bonnie and Clyde

  written off by Steve McQueen as “Done Fade-Away,”

  Dunne, John Gregory

  Dutton, John C.

  Duvall, Robert

  Dylan, Bob

  Eastman Kodak

  Eastwood, Clint

  Ebert, Roger

  Eckhardt, William

  Eggar, Samantha

  Eh? (play)

  8 1/2

  Embassy Pictures. See also

  Levine, Joseph E.

  Esquire (magazine)

  Benton and Newman at

  Capote parody

  and New Sentimentality

  review of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  European films. See also French New Wave

  Evans, Edith

  Evans, Evans

  Evans, Laurie

  An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May (play)

  Fahrenheit

  Fairchild, Morgan

  Fantastic Voyage

  Farber, Stephen

  Faulkner, William

  Feldman, Charles K.

  Fellini, Federico

  Finian’s Rainbow

  Finney, Albert

  Finstad, Suzanne

  Flanders, Michael

  Flatt and Scruggs

  A Flea in Her Ear

  Fleischer, Max

  Fleischer, Richard

  after Doctor Dolittle

  background

  directs Doctor Dolittle

  previewing Doctor Dolittle

  Flinn, John

  Fonda, Henry

  Fonda, Jane

  1985 Fourth of July party

  and Barefoot in the Park

  as possibility for playing Bonnie Parker

  view of Warren Beatty

  Fonda, Peter

  For Love of Ivy

  Ford, John

  40 Pounds of Trouble

  Fowler, Marjorie

  Fox Film Company. See also 20th Century-Fox

  Frankenheimer, John

  Frankovich, Mike

  Fredericks, Ellsworth

  Freed, Arthur

  Freeman, Joel

  French New Wave. See also Godard, Jean-Luc; Truffaut, François

  Frings, Kurt

  Gable, Clark

  Ganis, Sid

  Gardner, Ava

  Garfunkel, Art. See Simon and Garfunkel

  Garland, Judy

  Gates, Larry

  Gelb, Arthur

  generation gap

  Get Smart (TV show)

  Gigi

  Gill, Brendan

  Gilliatt, Penelope

  Giroux, Claude

  Glass, George

  Glenn, Roy

  Godard, Jean-Luc

  at 1964 New York Film Festival

  black and white films

  and Breathless

  as college campus hero

  flirtation with Bonnie and Clyde

  and New Sentimentality

  at screening of Gun Crazy

  visits set of Mickey One

  Wexler’s view

  Golden Boy

  Golden Globe Awards

  Goldfinger

  Goldman, William

  Goldwyn, Samuel

  Goldwyn, Samuel Jr.

  Gone With the Wind

  Goodbye, Mr. Chips

  Gosnell, Ray

  Gould, Elliott

  The Graduate

  aftermath

  Bonnie and Clyde as companion piece

  cast rehearsals

  casting

  critical reaction

  film critic award considerations

  filming

  financing

  and Joseph E. Levine

  music in

  and new Production Code

  opening

  as Oscar contender

  popularity

  premiere

  and Production Code

  publicity

  screenplay

  search for a Benjamin

  The Graduate (novel). See Webb, Charles

  Grant, Cary

  Grant, Lee

  The Greatest Story Ever Told

  Greeley, Andrew

  Green, Adolph

  Griffiths, Hugh

  Grodin, Charles

  Grosbard, Ulu

  Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  budget and financing

  casting

  critical reaction

  and death of Tracy

  demographic appeal

  filming

  as movie about interracial relationship

  origin

  as Oscar contender

  popularity

  screenplay

  Guffey, Burnett

  Guinness, Alec

  Gun Crazy

  Hackman, Gene

  Hairston, Jester

  Hall, Conrad

  Hamer, Frank (character in Bonnie and Clyde)

  Hamilton, Bernie

  Handman, Wynn

  Hanley, William

  Hanson, Curtis

  The Happening

  The Happiest Millionaire

  Hardy, Juanita

  Harris, Radie

  Harrison, Rex

  at 1965 Academy Awards

  after completion of Doctor Dolittle

  background

  and Doctor Dolittle

  and Doctor Dolittle final shoot in LA

  fired and rehired for Doctor Dolittle

  and The Honey Pot

  publicity for Doctor Dolittle

  and Samantha Eggar

  wins Academy Award

  Harry Noon and Night (play)

  Hartman, Elizabeth

  Hawks, Howard

  Hays, Will

  Heller, Joseph

  Hellman, Lillian

  Henry, Buck

  as 1967 Academy Award nominee

  after The Graduate

  becomes The Graduate screenwriter

  and cast rehearsals for The Graduate

  and casting of The Graduate

  and filming of The Graduate

  and Get Smart

  meets Godard

  and Mike Nichols

  prelude to The Graduate

  sees Dustin Hoffman perform on stage in Harry

  Noon and Night

  view of Dustin Hoffman as leading man

  view of Joseph E. Levine

  writer co-credit issue

  Hepburn, Audrey

  Hepburn, Katharine

  as 1967 Academy Award nominee

  after G
uess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  attitude toward blacks and Sidney Poitier

  and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  relationship with Spencer Tracy

  and Ship of Fools

  and Tracy’s death

  Herrick, Margaret

  Hill, George Roy

  Hiller, Arthur

  Himes, Chester

  Hirshan, Leonard

  Hitchcock, Alfred

  Hoffman, Dustin

  as 1967 first-time Academy Award nominee

  after The Graduate

  attends public sneak preview of The Graduate

  background

  bad buzz about his performance

  becomes suddenly famous

  and casting of The Graduate

  filming The Graduate

  at premiere of The Graduate

  and rehearsals for The Graduate

  Hogan’s Goat (play)

  Holder, Geoffrey

  Hollywood, Old vs. New

  The Honey Pot

  Hope, Bob

  Hopper, Dennis

  Hough, Stan

  Houghton, Katharine

  How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

  Hud

  Hudson, Rock

  Hunter, Ross

  Hurry Sundown

  The Hustler

  Huston, John

  Hutton, Brian

  Hyman, Eliot

  I Picked a Daisy (play). See also On a Clear

  Day You Can See Forever (play)

  I Spy (TV show)

  In Cold Blood

  In the Heat of the Night

  budget and financing

  casting

  critical reaction

  film critic award considerations

  filming

  finding location for

  initial interest in

  as Oscar contender

  popularity

  preproduction

  publicity

  Silliphant takes on adaptation of novel

  sneak preview

  wins New York Film Critics Circle award for

  Best Picture

  wrapping and postproduction

  Inge, William

  Inherit the Wind

  Irving Thalberg Award

  It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman (play)

  It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

  Jacobs, Arthur P. after Doctor Dolittle

  background

  and Doctor Dolittle

  heart attack

  and lawsuit over rights to Dolittle books

  previewing Doctor Dolittle

  promotes Oscar nominations for Doctor Dolittle

  publicity company description

  James, Anthony

  James Bond movies

  Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

  Jewison, Norman

  at 1967 Academy Awards

  after In the Heat of the Night

  background

  and The Cincinnati Kid

  and death of Dr. King

  and filming of In the Heat of the Night

  gets In the Heat of the Night director job

  In the Heat of the Night wins New York Film

  Critics Circle award for Best Picture

  his view of Stanley Kramer

  at premiere of The Graduate

  preproduction for In the Heat of the Night

  and The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

  and Send Me No Flowers

  and sneak preview of In the Heat of the Night

  and The Thomas Crown Affair

  and Universal Studios

  works with Stirling Silliphant on script for In the Heat of the Night

  wrapping and postproduction of In the Heat of the Night

  Jiras, Bob

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Jones, Elinor

  Wright background

  contacts with Truffaut

  famous meeting with Godard about Bonnie and Clyde

  option on Bonnie and Clyde

  Jones, Quincy

  Jones, Robert C.

  Jones, Tom

  The Journey of the Fifth Horse (play)

  Judgment at Nuremberg

  Jules and Jim

  The Jungle Book

  Jungleland

  Kael, Pauline

  Kaleidoscope

  Kalmenson, Ben

  Kanin, Garson

  Kanter, Hal

  Karp, Jack

  Kauffmann, Stanley

  Kaye, Nora

  Kazan, Elia

  Kellaway, Cecil

  Keller, Frank

  Kelly, Gene

  Kennedy, George

  Kennedy, Jacqueline

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kennedy, Robert F.

  Kilgallen, Dorothy

  King, Dr. Martin Luther Jr.

  The Knack

  Kodak

  Kramer, Karen

  Kramer, Larry

  Kramer, Stanley

  at 1965 Academy Awards

  after Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  background

  casting of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  filming of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  and Rose screenplay for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  and Ship of Fools

  and Spencer Tracy

  tours college campuses to talk about Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

  Krim, Arthur

  Kubrick, Stanley

  Kurosawa, Akira

  La Dolce Vita

  La Peau Douce (The Soft Skin)

  Lacy, Ed

  Lancaster, Burt

  Landau, Ely

  Lang, Fritz

  Lantz, Robert

  Last Year at Marienbad

  Lastfogel, Abe

  L’Avventura

  Law, John Phillip

  Lawrence of Arabia

  Lazar, Irving “Swifty,”

  Lean, David

  Lederer, Richard

  The Left-Handed Gun

  Legion of Decency. See also National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures

  Lehman, Ernest

  Leigh, Vivien

  Lemmon, Jack

  Leone, Sergio

  Lerner, Alan Jay

  attends Capote’s In Cold Blood premiere

  background

  and Camelot

  and Doctor Dolittle

  Levine, Joseph E.

  after The Graduate

  background

  and The Graduate

  as promoter of European films

  Lilies of the Field

  Lilith

  The Little Foxes (play)

  Loden, Barbara

  Loesser, Frank

  Loewe, Frederick

  Lofting, Christopher

  Lofting, Hugh

  Lofting, Josephine

  Logan, Joshua

  London, becomes third entertainment capital

  The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

  Long Day’s Journey into Night

  The Long Ships

  The Longest Day

  A Loss of Roses (play)

  Louis, Jean

  The Loved One

  Loving v. Virginia

  Lucas, George

  Lumet, Sidney

  MacEwen, Walter

  MacLaine, Shirley

  MacLeod, Gavin

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mailer, Norman

  Malcolm X

  A Man for All Seasons

  Mankiewicz, Joseph

  Mann, Abby

  Mann, Ted (Minneapolis)

  The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (TV show)

  Martin, Dean

  Marvin, Lee

  Mary Poppins

  Mason, Clifford

  Mason, James

  Matthau, Walter

  May, Elaine

  Maysles, Albert and David

  MCA (Music Corporation of America)

  McCarthy, Eugene
/>   McCarthyism

  McQueen, Steve

  Mead, William

  Menzel, Jiri

  Meredith, James

  MGM

  and 1963 Academy Awards

  1967 Oscar contenders

  and Blow-Up

  and The Cincinnati Kid

  circumvents Production Code by creating Premier Production Company, Inc.

  and The Dirty Dozen

  and Doctor Zhivago

  new-found interest in musicals

  as “old guard” studio

  and A Patch of Blue

  and The Pawnbroker

  studio ownership question

  and 2001: A Space Odyssey

  Michea, Elaine

  Mickey One

  Millar, Stuart

  Miller, Arthur

  Mills, Hayley

  Minnelli, Vincente

  The Miracle Worker

  Mirisch, Walter

  Mirisch Company

  background

  and In the Heat of the Night

  and Norman Jewison

  Monroe, Marilyn

  Montgomery, Robert

  Mordden, Ethan

  Moreau, Jeanne

  Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

  Morgenstern, Joseph

  Morgenstern, Madeleine

  Morley, Robert

  Morris Agency. See Lastfogel, Abe

  Morse, Terry

  Moss, C.W. (character in Bonnie and Clyde)

  Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). See also Valenti, Jack” Mrs. Robinson” (song)

  Mutiny on the Bounty

  My Fair Lady

  NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

  National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures

  National Catholic Reporter

  National Society of Film Critics

  Neal, Patricia

  Nelson, Peter

  New Hollywood vs. Old Hollywood

  New Journalism

  New Sentimentality vs. Old Sentimentality

  New York Film Critics Circle

  New York Film Festival

  Newley, Anthony

  and Doctor Dolittle

  and Leslie Bricusse

  Newman, David, and Robert Benton

  at 1967 Academy Awards

  after Bonnie and Clyde

  and…It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman (play)

  background

  Benton’s visit from Warren Beatty

  and Bosley Crowther

  drafted by Beatty to work on ad campaign for

  Bonnie and Clyde

  efforts to find director and studio for Bonnie and Clyde

  at Esquire

  gain opportunity to secure production deal for

  Bonnie and Clyde

  and Godard

  initial Bonnie and Clyde screenplay effort

  leave Bonnie and Clyde production

  and Pauline Kael

  question of Clyde Barrow’s sexuality

  response to Sarris review of Bonnie and Clyde

  sell Bonnie and Clyde script to Beatty

  and success of Bonnie and Clyde

  and Truffaut

  Newman, Leslie

  Newman, Lionel

  Newman, Paul

  Nichols, Mike

  after The Graduate

  after Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  awards for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  background

  on Broadway

  and Buck Henry

  and casting of The Graduate

 

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