Rodgers And Hammerstein

Image Not Available Director: Fred Zinnemann, Henry King, Joshua Logan, Robert Wise, Walter Lang Dvd Release: 4th November, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Box set, Black & White, Colour, Full Screen, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Joshua Logan, a director & writer, was best known for Broadway & Hollywood shows such as Mister Roberts, Picnic & South Pacific. Joshua Lockwood Logan III was born October 5, 1908 in Texarkana, Texas & attended Culver Military Academy in Indiana before enrolling at Princeton. As a student, Logan helped form the University Players with Henry Fonda & James Stewart. Before graduating in 1931, he went to Moscow on a scholarship to study method acting with Konstantin Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre. In 1932, Logan began his Broadway career as an actor in 1932. He went to Hollywood in 1936 to work with producer David O Selznick. When he returned to Broadway, he wrote & directed two popular shows On Borrowed Time & I Married an Angel. His career was interrupted by military service in England with the United States Army Air Corps Combat Intelligence division during World War II. He married actress Nedda Harrigan in 1945. After the war, Logan directed Broadway shows Annie Get Your Gun, John Loves Mary, Mister Roberts, South Pacific & Fanny. Posters Of Camelot

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Robert Wise is an Academy Award winning film producer & director. Born in Winchester, Indiana, Wise began his movie career at RKO as a sound & music editor, but he soon grew to being nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for Citizen Kane in 1941. He took his first directing job with the stylish horror film The Curse of the Cat People in 1944. In 1949 he directed the boxing movie The Set-Up, where his direction of the real-time setting got him noticed. In the 1950s, Wise proved adept in several genres, from the science fiction of The Day the Earth Stood Still to the melodramatic So Big, to Susan Haywards Oscar winner in I Want to Live!, for which he was nominated for Best Director. In 1961, teamed with Jerome Robbins, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for West Side Story, which he also produced. He repeated this achievement in 1965 with The Sound of Music. The Motion Picture. In 1989 he directed Rooftops, his last feature film to date. Wise is a past president of both the Directors Guild of America & the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Posters Of Star Trek

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Walter Lang was an American film director. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, as a young man he went to New York City where he found clerical work at a film production company. The business piqued his artistic instincts & he began learning the various facets of filmmaking & eventually worked as an assistant director. However, Lang also had ambitions to be a painter & left the United States for a time to join the great gathering of artists & writers in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France. Things did not work out as Lang hoped & he eventually returned home & to the film business. In 1926, Walter Lang directed his first silent film, The Red Kimona. In the mid 1930s, he was hired by 20th Century Fox where, as a director, he painted a number of the spectacular colorful musicals for which Fox Studios became famous for producing during the 1940s. One of Langs most recognized films is his 1956 epic The King & I for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Directing. Posters Of Marilyn Monroe

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