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Hace 6 horas · Film Battleground (1949) Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary pushed Battleground into the studio’s schedule against Louis Mayer’s protests. The movie was a hit, marking the decline of Mayer’s power. The film focuses on the battles of Bastogne and the Bulge in WWII, with James Whitmore stealing the show as the battle-hardened sergeant.
Although Kubrick's previous film The Killing had failed at the box office, it had managed to land on several critical top-ten lists for the year. Dore Schary, then head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, liked the film and hired Kubrick and Harris to develop film stories from MGM's slush pile of scripts and purchased novels.
22 de abr. de 2024 · The new VP in charge of production became Dore Schary, who had previously been head of production at RKO under Howard Hughes. Schary envisioned the studio heading in a new direction with more realistic films like John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle (1950).
20 de abr. de 2024 · Fueron además los últimos años de dominio de Mayer, que de a poco fue resignando su influencia para dejar el estudio en manos de Dore Schary, su jefe de producción, quien logró mantener en lo más...
Hace 4 días · “There was the script adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s ‘The Burning Secret,’ which Calder Willingham and I put together in the ’50s for MGM and Dore Schary after ‘The Killing.’ The plot revolves around a vacationing mother, joined by her young son, without her husband.
5 de may. de 2024 · Nonetheless MGM continued its busy output albeit halving its annual production rate to 25 and made some outstanding films in a variety of genres under new studio boss Dore Schary who was mostly responsible for an astonishing run of musicals – some of them box office flops but now universally acknowledged as classics.
6 de may. de 2024 · Susan Granger’s review of “Franklin” (Apple TV+) “A long life has taught me that diplomacy must never be a siege – but a seduction,” observes renowned 70 year-old statesman Benjamin Franklin (Michael Douglas) in Apple TV+’s original docudrama, simply titled “Franklin.”.
