1. Melville Shavelson dies at 90 - WILD ABOUT HARRY
Aug 9, 2007 · ... affair with Daisy White and Bess Houdini's alcoholism. Shavelson's film career saw him work with many famous faces, including Jimmy Cagney ...
A blog by Houdini expert John Cox devoted to exploring the life and legacy of Harry Houdini in history, media, and pop culture. Updates daily.
2. Inside Sophia Loren and Cary Grant's scandalous age gap relationship
Nov 23, 2023 · The sexual tension between the actors was so great that director Melville Shavelson later complained that the film had been difficult to make.
As a new four-part drama about the life of Cary Grant arrives on ITV, Express.co.uk takes a look back at his scandalous love affair with iconic beauty Sophia Loren.
3. Melville Shavelson | Movies - The Guardian
Aug 9, 2007 · By that time, he had cemented a similar relationship with Danny Kaye and wrote two of the early Kaye classics, Wonder Man and The Kid from ...
Obituary: Hollywood producer, writer and director for Bob Hope, Danny Kaye and Frank Sinatra.
4. Behind the Scenes – “Cast a Giant Shadow” (1966)
Jul 22, 2021 · After every studio in Hollywood had turned down Cast a Giant Shadow, writer-producer-director Melville Shavelson turned to the Duke. The ...
If recruiting John Wayne is essential to getting your new picture off the ground, it would help not to have fallen out with him big-style previously. After every studio in Hollywood had turned down…
5. A Technicolor Key to Trump's Desires | Los Angeles Review of Books
Oct 26, 2024 · Bill Lattanzi illuminates Trump's dark fantasies through the lens of a Hollywood classic, Melville Shavelson's “Houseboat.”
Bill Lattanzi illuminates Trump’s dark fantasies through the lens of a Hollywood classic, Melville Shavelson’s “Houseboat.”
6. Cinema: A Catered Affair | TIME
... Melville Shavelson are nearly impenetrable. As Marcus' unhappy wife, Angie Dickinson stays at home, smiling through her fears and reminiscing in murky ...
Cast a Giant Shadow, another exercise in movie biography, may be filed as a case of mistaken identity: any resemblance to persons living or dead is sacrificed to make elbowroom for Hero Kirk...
7. Houseboat - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
Adding insults to injury, Drake's screenplay was almost completely reworked by two other screenwriters, Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson (who also directed), ...
With his third of five wives, actress-writer Betsy Drake, Cary Grant shared two co-starring film vehicles, 1948's Every Girl Should Be Married and 1952's Room for One More. They had planned yet another film together, Houseboat (1958), based on a screenplay by Drake herself. By the time the m
8. Houdini in The New York Times, Friday - Interval Magic
The movie itself, written and directed by Melville Shavelson, is a shaky affair but it is crammed with delicious moments for collectors of the absurd. The ...
Houdini in the New York Times is a free resource for Houdini enthusiasts and researchers who might not otherwise have access to the hundreds of Houdini articles, features, and letters that appeared in the Times during the first half of the twentieth century.
9. Desert Island Movie #6: Houseboat (1958) - Cinema Station
Mar 22, 2011 · Leo McCarey's remake of his own Love Affair ... The film I'm talking about is Melville Shavelson's Houseboat (1958) starring Cary Grant and Sophia ...
Houseboat (1958) Desert Island movie #6 Would you believe there was actually a time when romanticism and good looks and not acting or story or even directorial razzle-dazzle could not only power …
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11. AFI|Catalog
Producer-director Melville Shavelson was a screenwriter when he paid $12,500 of his own money for the option on Ted Berkman's 1962 book, Cast a Giant Shadow ...
In late 1947 the British plan to withdraw from Palestine and the Arabs openly ignore the announcement of the United Nations to partition Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states. While shopping for Christmas presents at Macy's Department Store in New York City, Col. David "Mickey" Marcus, West Point graduate, military adviser to Franklin Roosevelt, and D-Day veteran, is asked to reorganize the Haganah, the underground Jewish army. Despite the objections of his wife, Emma, and Pentagon officials, Marcus accepts the responsibility. Upon his arrival in Palestine, he is informed that the underground army is outnumbered 60 to 1, and that its striking force is weakened by internal differences. Aiding Marcus in his program is Magda Simon, a female soldier with whom he becomes romantically involved. Disturbed by news of Emma's ill health resulting from a miscarriage and the Haganah's reluctance to accept him as a leader, Marcus returns to the United States. While attempting to see whethe
12. Houseboat (1958) directed by Melville Shavelson • Reviews, film + cast
Anything with Grant is instantly watchable, though this is a fairly charmless affair. The romance doesn't ring true, it's tonally strange and the musical bits ...
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
13. It Started in Naples (Melville Shavelson, 1960) - Kino Runner
Feb 8, 2016 · Clark Gable plays to type as a stolid lawyer impatient to settle his late brother's affairs in Naples.
As in Houseboat , here Shavelson again chucks an ageing A-lister at Sophia Loren in the hope that sparks might be created between them. Ho...
14. Houseboat (1958) - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
But his producer friend Bill Frye said later that Grant's "love affair ... Producer: Jack Rose Director: Melville Shavelson Screenplay: Melville Shavelson ...
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
15. How to Succeed in Hollywood without Really Trying - Audiobook ...
Writer-Director Melville Shavelson survived five wars: WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and Hollywood. In this often funny and always readable memoir, he recalls.
Writer-Director Melville Shavelson survived five wars: WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and Hollywood. In this often funny and always readable memoir, he recalls
