William Keighley Material

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c81j9f4x No online items William Keighley material Special Collections Margaret Herrick Library© 2015 William Keighley material 1721 1 Descriptive Summary Title: William Keighley material Date (inclusive): 1940-1981 Date (bulk): 1940-1967 Collection number: 1721 Creator: Keighley, William Extent: 1.7 linear feet of papers. Repository: Margaret Herrick Library. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Languages: English Access Available by appointment only. Publication rights Property rights to the physical object belong to the Margaret Herrick Library. Researchers are responsible for obtaining all necessary rights, licenses, or permissions from the appropriate companies or individuals before quoting from or publishing materials obtained from the library. Preferred Citation William Keighley material, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Acquisition Information Gift of LACMA, 2012 Biography William Keighley was an American actor, director, and screenwriter most active in the 1930s and 1940s. After having spent his youth acting and directing on Broadway during the 1910s and 1920s, he relocated to Hollywood. He was the initial director of THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938), starring Errol Flynn, but was replaced by Michael Curtiz. During World War II, he supervised the U.S. Army Air Force's motion picture unit. He retired from filmmaking in 1953 and moved with his actress wife Genevieve Tobin to Paris where he went on to become a cultural ambassador throughout Europe. Collection Scope and Content Summary The William Keighley material spans the years 1940-1981 (bulk 1940-1967) and encompasses approximately 1.7 linear feet. The collection consists of three scripts for three films released in 1940: THE FIGHTING 69TH, FOUR MOTHERS, NO TIME FOR COMEDY, along with correspondence, honorary certificates, clippings, biographical information, artifacts, and photographs. The material covers his role as director of the U.S. Army Air Force's motion picture unit during World War II and his time spent in France during retirement. Arrangement Arranged in the following series: 1. Production files; 2. Subject files; 3. Oversize. Indexing Terms actors directors William Keighley material 1721 2.

Copy Link

Recommended publications

Role of the Archives in the Future
… You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time…” Abraham Lincoln ( 1809 – 1865 ) FACTS AND FICTION- ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE HISTORICAL EVENTS AND TELEVISION AND FILM PRODUCTIONS Media Archeology Movies and television productions are released and transmitted each year dealing with historical events or public personalities like politicians , military leaders, revolutionaries, and people with a record of special achievemments. The aim of my presentation is to make you aware of different possibilities in reusing archival footage in movies. It is my intention to inform you about the importance of the audiovisual archives and how to reuse transmitted programmes or real shots of life in new productions. It is not my intention to evaluate real shots in historical movies and to report about facts and fiction in those films. The subject is dealt with in the book called: PAST IMPERFECT. History According to the Movies. 1995, and my own paper on the same subject: HISTORY AND MOVIES: An evaluation of the information of historical events, of international known personalities and of famous sites and buildings describes in movies. External links: ( Contact: http://www.baacouncil.org/ or [email protected] for copy of the paper) Television companies should be proud of their collections of transmitted programmes. Because I have worked for televison archive for about 29 years I have viewed a lot of television programmes and movies. Some years ago I started to question the reuse of transmitted television programmes and also the active reuse of news in new productions.
[Show full text]
Modus Operandi Films and High Point Media Group Present
Modus Operandi Films and High Point Media Group Present A film by Craig McCall Worldwide Sales: High Point Media Group Contact in Cannes: Residences du Grand Hotel, Cormoran II, 3 rd Floor: Tel: +33 (0) 4 93 38 05 87 London Contact: Tel: +44 20 7424 6870. Fax +44 20 7435 3281 [email protected] CAMERAMAN: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff page 1 of 27 © Modus Operandi Films 2010 HP PRESS KIT CAMERAMAN: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff www.jackcardiff.com Contents: - Film Synopsis p 3 - 10 Facts About Jack p 4 - Jack Cardiff Filmography p 5 - Quotes about Jack p 6 - Director’s Notes p 7 - Interviewee’s p 8 - Bio’s of Key Crew p10 - Director's Q&A p14 - Credits p 19 CAMERAMAN: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff page 2 of 27 © Modus Operandi Films 2010 HP PRESS KIT CAMERAMAN : The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff A Documentary Feature Film Logline: Celebrating the remarkable nine decade career of legendary cinematographer, Jack Cardiff, who provided the canvas for classics like The Red Shoes and The African Queen . Short Synopsis: Jack Cardiff’s career spanned an incredible nine of moving picture’s first ten decades and his work behind the camera altered the look of films forever through his use of Technicolor photography. Craig McCall’s passionate film about the legendary cinematographer reveals a unique figure in British and international cinema. Long Synopsis: Cameraman illuminates a unique figure in British and international cinema, Jack Cardiff, a man whose life and career are inextricably interwoven with the history of cinema spanning nine decades of moving pictures' ten.
[Show full text]
Malibu Schoolconimitteet
Conimittee T Malibu School All-Malibu Newspaper SM School Board Asks Chance To Present Proposal Meeting Before County The Malibu Times Board Postponed 1 Week Vol. I—No. 39 MALIBU, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 24, 1947 Price 5c A special meeting between Malibu's voluntary school com- mittee and the members of the U.S. POSTOFFICE Board Members Of Board of Education of Santa Council Monica will be held at the Township Board of Education building, CORNELL Nominated 19 1336 6th Street, Santa Monica, Jan. at 7:30 tonight (Friday), Jean Election To Be Held at Couchois, head of the Malibu Open Sun. committee, announced today. Meeting Next Tonight's meeting is the result The names of eleven men and of a request on the part of the one woman were selected as nomi- Santa Board to nees from a total of 40 possible present its own proposals for candidates to serve on the first establishment of school facili- hoard of directors of the Malibu ties in the Malibu. Township Council, Inc., at a spe- At a special meeting of Mali- cial open meeting last Sunday af- bu's school committee before ternoon at the Malibu justice the County Board of Supervis- court. Election of the board mem- ors last Monday morning, the bers to serve for one year will be local group agreed to post- held at another open meeting next ponement of their scheduled Sunday, Jan. 26. at 12:30 p.m., hearing this week on a request Malibu courthouse. for establishment of a new Those nominated were : county school district in Malibu Zone !—C.
[Show full text]
Raoul Walsh to Attend Opening of Retrospective Tribute at Museum
The Museum of Modern Art jl west 53 Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 Tel. 956-6100 Cable: Modernart NO. 34 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RAOUL WALSH TO ATTEND OPENING OF RETROSPECTIVE TRIBUTE AT MUSEUM Raoul Walsh, 87-year-old film director whose career in motion pictures spanned more than five decades, will come to New York for the opening of a three-month retrospective of his films beginning Thursday, April 18, at The Museum of Modern Art. In a rare public appearance Mr. Walsh will attend the 8 pm screening of "Gentleman Jim," his 1942 film in which Errol Flynn portrays the boxing champion James J. Corbett. One of the giants of American filmdom, Walsh has worked in all genres — Westerns, gangster films, war pictures, adventure films, musicals — and with many of Hollywood's greatest stars — Victor McLaglen, Gloria Swanson, Douglas Fair banks, Mae West, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Marlene Dietrich and Edward G. Robinson, to name just a few. It is ultimately as a director of action pictures that Walsh is best known and a growing body of critical opinion places him in the front rank with directors like Ford, Hawks, Curtiz and Wellman. Richard Schickel has called him "one of the best action directors...we've ever had" and British film critic Julian Fox has written: "Raoul Walsh, more than any other legendary figure from Hollywood's golden past, has truly lived up to the early cinema's reputation for 'action all the way'...." Walsh's penchant for action is not surprising considering he began his career more than 60 years ago as a stunt-rider in early "westerns" filmed in the New Jersey hills.
[Show full text]
Casablanca by Jay Carr the a List: the National Society of Film Critics’ 100 Essential Films, 2002
Casablanca By Jay Carr The A List: The National Society of Film Critics’ 100 Essential Films, 2002 It’s still the same old story. Maybe more so. “Casablanca” was never a great film, never a profound film. It’s merely the most beloved movie of all time. In its fifty-year history, it has resisted the transmogrifica- tion of its rich, reverberant icons into camp. It’s not about the demimondaines washing through Rick’s Café Americain – at the edge of the world, at the edge of hope – in 1941. Ultimately, it’s not even about Bogey and Ingrid Bergman sacrificing love for nobility. It’s about the hold movies have on us. That’s what makes it so powerful, so enduring. It is film’s analogue to Noel Coward’s famous line about the amazing potency of cheap music. Like few films before or since, it sums up Hollywood’s genius for recasting archetypes in big, bold, universally accessible strokes, for turning myth into pop culture. Courtesy Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcast and Recorded It’s not deep, but it sinks roots into America’s Sound Division collective consciousness. As a love story, it’s flawed. We than a little let down by her genuflection to idealism. don’t feel a rush of uplift when trenchcoated Bogey, You feel passion is being subordinated to an abstraction. masking idealism with cynicism, lets Bergman, the love You want her to second-guess Rick and not go. of his life, fly off to Lisbon and wartime sanctuary with “Casablanca” leaves the heart feeling cheated.
[Show full text]
Selling Masculinity at Warner Bros.: William Powell, a Case Study
Katie Walsh Selling Masculinity at Warner Bros.: William Powell, A Case Study Abstract William Powell became a star in the 1930s due to his unique brand of suave charm and witty humor—a quality that could only be expressed with the advent of sound film, and one that took him from mid-level player typecast as a villain, to one of the most popular romantic comedy leads of the era. His charm lay in the nonchalant sophistication that came naturally to Powell and that he displayed with ease both on screen and off. He was exemplary of the success of the new kind of star that came into their own during the transition to sound: sharp- or silver-tongued actors who were charming because of their way with words and not because of their silver screen faces. Powell also exercised a great deal of control over his publicity and star image, which is best examined during his short and failed tenure as a Warner Bros. during the advent of his rise to stardom. Despite holding a great amount of power in his billing and creative control, Powell was given a parade of cookie-cutter dangerous playboy roles, and the terms of his contract and salary were constantly in flux over the three years he spent there. With the help of his agent Myron Selznick, Powell was able to navigate between three studios in only a matter of a few years, in search of the perfect fit for his natural abilities as an actor. This experimentation with star image and publicity marked the period of the early 1930s in Hollywood, as studios dealt with the quickly evolving art and technological form, industrial and business practices, and a shifting cultural and moral landscape.
[Show full text]
1947-08-22, [P ]
August it, 1847 TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL Five & Cry Wolf9 Combines Adventure, ttomance in Thrilling Tashion •T f A . I ‘ ' r - > r -------- --.-II.- I/-............................ ---------- I Warner Bros.’ screen version of Marjorie Carleton’s popular 'ftovel. “Cry Wolf,” which opened at the Paramount Theatre, RETURNS TO MGM proves to be a highly ^warding motion picture experience. Be MelcMor end 'Chief Heflin, Hart Join Calvert; To Appear HOLLYWOOD — For her role sides the superlative performances turned in by Errol Flynn and Give Duet ‘Weight1 Barbara Stanwyck 5X ith James Mason in “Cass Timberlane,” starring Barbara Stanwyck in this, their initial co starring venture, the HOLLYWOOD — Phyllis Cal picture boasts a remarkably HOLLYWOOD — “Luxury HOLLYWOOD — Outstand Spencer Tracy and Lana Turner, vert’s next film assignment, lively pace set down under the £ Liner,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ing performances in Metro-Gold- Rose Hobart returned to Metro- Technicolor production, will wyn-Mayer’s soon to be rleased when she completes her starring able direction of Peter Godfrey role opposite Melvyn Douglas Goldwyn-Mayer after an ab in the film’s exciting opening feature the “heaviest” duet “Green Dolphin Street,” opposite in Paramount’s "My Own True sence of four years. She was sequence and artfully maintain ever seen on the nation’s mo- Lana Turner, have won for Van Love,” will be a bit part in an previously at M-G-M in "Su ed throughout, right up to the tion picture screens. san and God” and “Swing-shift Helfin and Richard Hart the untitled picture which James Maisie ” c’—^hing climax. “Five hundred thirty powerful male leading roles as Mason is writing »pd producing »L mie story, essentially a mod in New York.
[Show full text]
Radio Mirror
, RADIO JlIVJD TELEVISION MIRROR NOVEMBER • 25c HSU Blondie—My Favorite Mother—page 40 Dagwood's House of Happiness—page 42 Come and visit ART LINK LET lE R YOUNG WIDDER BROWN n pictures A Lovelier Skin is yours with your First Cake of Camay! You're as lovely as your complexion! And your skin can grow in loveliness with your first cake of Camay. Do this! Give up careless cleansing— go on the Camay Mild-Soap Diet. Doctors tested Camay care on scores of women — found most complexions grew softer and smoother with just one cake of Camay! Follow the directions on the wrapper for a really lovelier skin! MEET MR. AND MRS. GAVERT! Paul proposed in a tiny New York restau- rant. No wonder! Christine's lovely com- plexion calls for love! "My very first cake of Camay led to a lovelier skin," says she. The Gaverts have lots of mutual interests be- sides music. And Paul takes a special in- terest in Christine's complexion. She'll stay on the Camay Mild-Soap Diet! MRS. PAUL A. GAVERT the former Chrittine Lindseth of Grand Rapids, Mich, bridal portrait painted by THE SOAP OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN Heepcjour hmxk ei/etv'ng-soft all cku Ioiip'/a ~]his- fabulous lotion if double-beaatu mdPie here ... as well ^ as here. §f t tard-at-work and "on display, your all your lotion needs—a joy to use any Smoothed on your hands before doing •*- * hands lead a double life. So- -pamper time. Every fragrant, peach-colored drop dishes or light laundry, Trushay protects them with the double-beauty magic of is so rich, your hands feel softer and them even in hot, soapy water.
[Show full text]
Medienwissenschaft / Hamburg: Berichte Und Papiere
CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Hochschulschriftenserver - Universität Frankfurt am Main Medienwissenschaft / Hamburg: Berichte und Papiere 50, 2003: Screwball Comedy. Redaktion und Copyright dieser Ausgabe: Hans J. Wulff. Letzte Änderung: 17. Dezember 2002. Screwball Comedies: Eine Filmographie, eine Bibliographie Zusammengestellt v. Hans J. Wulff Für Hinweise danke ich Christine Noll Brinckmann, Thomas Christen, Karl-Dietmar Möller, Jörg Schweinitz und Gerlinde Waz. I. Die Filme (A-Z) II. Die Regisseure (A-Z) III. Die Stars (A-Z) IV. Chronologie V. Bibliographie I. Die Filme A Adam‘s Rib (Ehekrieg); USA 1949, George Cukor, D: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn. The Affairs of Annabel; USA 1938, Ben Stoloff, D: Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball. After Office Hours (Nach Büroschluss, aka: Ein Paar wie Katz und Hund; aka: Zwei wie Katz und Hund); USA 1935, Robert Z. Leonard, D: Clark Gable, Constance Bennett. After the Thin Man (Nach dem dünnen Mann; aka: Dünner Mann, zweiter Fall); USA 1936, W.S. Van Dyke, D: William Powell, Myrna Loy. Amazing Adventure; USA 1937, Alfred Zeisler, D: Cary Grant, Mary Brian. The Amazing Mr. Williams; USA 1940, Alexander Hall, D: Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell. And Baby Makes Three (Zwei Männer und drei Babies); USA 1949, Henry Levin, D: Robert Young, Barbara Hale. Angel (Engel); USA 1937, Ernst Lubitsch, D: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall. Annabel Takes a Tour; USA 1938, Lew Landers, D: Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball. Another Thin Man (Noch ein dünner Mann; aka: Dünner Mann, dritter Fall); USA 1939, W.S. Van Dyke, D: William Powell, Myrna Loy. Arise My Love; USA 1940, Mitchell Leisen, D: Ray Milland, Claudette Colbert.
[Show full text]
(Washington, DC). 1940-02-03
American Premiere battles on the cinder paths, syn- sity, "Olympia” is completely devoid ^ cronizatlon of muscle In the fancy of Nazi nonsense in any form. I When Films J. 8. 1 Apply Power, ‘Olympia* diving events a to the Brings always beauty • __ To the Belasco eye. Form at Its greatest in the javelin throw and They Do a Dramatic Job The filming of the 11th Olympiad, pole vault, the With Sandy Again latter contest five hours into Just recently released under the lasting Micha Auer will be featured with the with the title had its first Ameri- night photographers Baby Sandy in the Universal star- ‘Gone With the Wind’ Remains "Olympia,” still grinding away. The throng is let’s next picture, “Sandy Is a can showing last night at the At the and Earle beheld urging the contestants; in- Lady The popular comic appeared Palace, Keeps Belasco Theater where it proved dividual rooters groan and yell in with the baby actress in her first itself entirely worthy of advance turn quite candidly before the peer- film, “East Side of Heaven,” and ‘The 69th’ lens. Field announcers drone Fighting notices. ing in her second, “Unexpected Father.” their reports in stentorian voices By JAY CARMODY. The 1936 will games, you remem- as the contestants wage their wars. A pair of prominent local marquees, those of the Palace and the ber, were those in which the Ameri- It may be said in all truth that the _AMUSEMENTS.__ Earle, testify this week that when the movies turn full power a upon can contingent, headed by Jess atmosphere and the feeling of full- good story, they can do a highly dramatic job.
[Show full text]
Bee Gee News February 7, 1940
Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-7-1940 Bee Gee News February 7, 1940 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "Bee Gee News February 7, 1940" (1940). BG News (Student Newspaper). 532. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/532 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. tARY READ THE ADS THEY WILI^- BEE GEE NEWS FOR THE FORMAL Student Publication of Bowling Green State University VOL. XXIV.—Z661 BOWLING GREEN, OHIO. FEBRUARY 7, 1940 No. 18 Petty Agrees Speaks Today School Heads Bernie Cummins To Play At To Judge Key Will Discuss Beauty Queen Problem Here Junior-Senior Formal Feb. 17 •—■—. t Entry Blank* Available; Shortage Of Elementary Junior Prexy Committee Began Sale Of Tickets At Contest Ends On Teachers For 1940 Two Dollars Per Couple Monday February 17 Raises Concern Upperclaasmen To Step Out In Finery At Reception George B. Petty, the nation's That there will be the jrreat- Hall; Dance Begin* At 9; Nationally Known foremost "lovely girl" illustrat- est shortage of elementary or, will select Bowling Green's teachers in 1940 since the be- Band Features Swing And Sweet Music campus queen in the beauty con- ginning of the University was ♦- test sponsored by the 1940 Key, revealed by Dr.
[Show full text]
National February 1940
MEW YORK NATIONAL MAJOR GENERAL WALTER G. ROBINSON FEBRUARY 1940 II EVERY DAY ASK FOR "FITZ AT THIS NEW YORK HOTEL! • In this year of grace, "Sir Walter Raleighs" flourish by the score on the staff of The Lexington! And the gentleman famous for his courtesy would be proud, indeed, to acknowl BURGOMASTER edge them as his peers—as do the guests who BEER regularly stop here. You, too, will H0Me 0F T|)E appreciate the personalized service THE BOTTLED BEER WITH and extra courtesies you receive at "New York's friendly hotel"! THE TAP-ROOM TANG! Other Favorites with Guardsmen CHARLES E. ROCHESTER,Vice-Pres.&Mng.Dir. FITZGERALD'S ALE FITZGERALD'S GARRYOWEN ALE LEXINGTON AVE. at 48th ST., NEW YORK For Sale Everywhere—On Draught and In Bottles PROVIDE YOUR ARMORY filDABOCK & CO. LESS ASHES MORE ASHES More Heat! Less Heat! Uniforms and Equipments 1847 Our 93rd Year 1940 Niagara Hudson Coke Ordinary fuel leaves leaves less ashes, finer more ashes, partly- KNOW YOUR ashes . you get more burned lumps . you heat. get less heat. TAILOR more heat for less money A well-heated armory goes a long way to insuring the health, comfort, and regular drill attendance of your unit. Niagara It Is Not So Much What We Pay, Hudson Coke gives you more heat for less money. Clean and easy to tend. Money As What We Get for Our Money back guarantee. NIAGARA HUDSON 65-67 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. Phones—LExington 2-3992-3993 COKE MANUFACTURED AT TROY, UTICA, SYRACUSE February, 1940 THE NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARDSMAN 1 BOTH BOOKS ARE YOURS FOR THE C0UP0N-0R A POSTCARD! Bureau of State Publicity, Conservation Dept.
[Show full text]