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Patricia
Roc |
Sir
John Mills |
Martha
Scott |
Trevor
Howard |
Described
by J. Arthur Rank, as "TheGoddess of Odeons". and by Noel Coward
as "an unspoiled movie star who can act" A
struggling actor by the name of Ronald Reagan, was romantically involved
with her while filming Canyon Passage (1946) |
Appointed
a CBE in 1960 won an Acadamy Award in 1971and was knighted in 1976. He
plays the central character in this film which was made between two movies
that were highly successful for him: Great Expectations (1946)
and Scott of the Antarctic (1948) |
Won
an Academy Award nomination for Our Town (1940) and went on to
play Charlton Heston's mother twice - in Ben Hur, and The
Ten Commandments - and his wife twice on stage. Also starred in
Dallas on TV (1979-85)
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Playing drunken Dr Whiteside, Howard had already secured fame with his
role in Brief Encounter (1945). He was memorable in The Third
Man (1949) & Sons and Lovers (1960)- earning an
Oscar nomination as yet another drunk |
Directed
by Edward Dmytryk: One of Hollywood's rising young directing talents in the 1940's, his career was interrupted by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a ruthless investigation aimed at uncovering communists in Hollywood. Dmytryk had been a Communist Party member during World War II, and was one of the so-called "Hollywood Ten" who refused to cooperate with HUAC, and had their careers disrupted or ruined as a result. He directed many war films, westerns and thrillers including "The Caine Mutiny" with Humphrey Bogart (1954) |
Cast |
Crew |
Writing
credits: James Hilton
In 1933, he wrote Lost Horizon and his mythical paradise of Shangri-La became a household word. The book was awarded the Hawthornden Prize .The same year an idea came to him in a flash and in four days he had "banged out" a story about an elderly, much-loved schoolmaster which he entitled Goodbye, Mr Chips. He continued to write best-selling novels before, during and after the Second World war including Random Harvest, So Well Remembered and Time and Time Again. |
Panda to all tastes |