Search Results for: Columbia

[…]innock, that’s right, who erm…he had a problem. They had asked a man called Seymour Friedman, who was the son of Harold Freedman, who was the head of Columbia Pictures. Um…the only way they could get a deal with Columbia for distribution, and I then get George Raft to play the lead. He was an over-t[…]

[…]Liar which resulted in Julie Christie being cast as Lara.Side 300:00:00 – 00:08:00 JB had ambitions to be a film director given his past experiences; Columbia approached JB to produce The Looking Glass War which he believed would be his way in to directing; the film wasn’t a success and JB decided h[…]

[…] second one was but I know one is called Q Planes, which is...CB: That surprises me...I: quite well know, and it’s a...CB: I didn’t know thatI: for a Columbia release but it was for London Film ProductionCB: YesI: at Denham... any particular memories of him? And Laura La Plante..CB: Yes, he was, I t[…]

[…]hat Midnight Cowboy which was way out on a limb would make money, it wasn't the reason I made it. And afterwards I was set to do Hadrian VII for Columbia, and we had a script that I loved by Charles Wood. But there was, this was just, my first time, I prided myself with going with unknowns in l[…]

[…] got to go with jack. So I did. I went to Savannah, we went reserve acquired I spent a long time there, of course. But during that, during that time, Columbia who were doing the finance we got very upset at one point because we had been like, and it was a long scheduled pitcher, we had six weeks pre[…]

[…]g around the country doing the provincial publicity schemes. Incidentally I started a week after Don Murray who ended up as Director of Publicity for Columbia who became very well known and survived every change in management over a large number of years.John Legard: Lucky man.Teddy Darvas:&nbs[…]

[…] get into the film industry. If I didn't, I would go onto law school. Well during that year I managed to get - to meet Harry Cohn who was the head of Columbia Pictures, which at that time was quite a small outfit. And he was quite a formidable character, I think of all these tough producers Harry wa[…]

[…]based on readings from the original cassette recordingTape 2 Side BYes, okay, right. You were saying?Willie Starr came to me.Yes.He's now the head of Columbia I think.What did he want you to do?Oh no, then I, then I was supposed to go on a Chaplin one, the Hong Kong one.A ‘Countess from Hong Kong’.A[…]