William A. Wellman (1896–1975)
Autor(a) de A Star Is Born [1937 film]
About the Author
Image credit: Image from Go, get 'em! (1918) by William A. Wellman
Séries
Obras por William A. Wellman
Great Cinema Classics - The Lady Vanishes / I Cover the Waterfront / Algiers/ The Scarlet Letter / Missouri Traveler /… (2011) — Director — 6 exemplares
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers [and] Lady of Burlesque (Double Feature Video) (2004) — Director — 4 exemplares
3 Leading Ladies of the Silver Screen Vol. 1: Father's Little Dividend / Nothing Sacred / Ghosts On The Loose — Director — 3 exemplares
War Classics: The Dirty Dozen / Battle of the Bulge / Where Eagles Dare (2005) — Director — 3 exemplares
John Wayne Legendary Heroes Collection (Blood Alley / McQ / The Sea Chase / Tall in the Saddle / The Train Robbers) (2005) — Director — 1 exemplar
Diva 20 Movie Pack — Director — 1 exemplar
The Next Voice You Hear [1950 Film] — Director — 1 exemplar
Joy of Living / Roxie Hart / Thin Ice — Director — 1 exemplar
The Screen Director's Playhouse: One Way Passage and Magic Town [radio broadcast] (1949) — Director — 1 exemplar
Leading Men Collection, Vol 1: An Affair to Remember / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / Call of the Wild / The… (2013) — Director — 1 exemplar
Nothing Sacred / Made for Each Other — Director — 1 exemplar
John Wayne: 4-Movie Collection — Director — 1 exemplar
Westward the Women [Import] 1 exemplar
Nothing Sacred / Young and Willing / Made for Each Other — Director — 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Gary Cooper Collection: Design for Living / The Lives of a Bengal Lancer / Peter Ibbetson / The General Died at… (1933) — Director — 19 exemplares
TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: WWII Battlefront Europe: Kelly's Heroes / Where Eagles Dare / The Dirty Dozen /… (2009) — Director — 14 exemplares
20th Century Fox Studio Classics Collection: Volume 7 (Anastasia / Gentleman's Agreement / The Ox-Bow Incident / The… (2010) — Director — 5 exemplares
Silver Screen Series V.5 — Director — 2 exemplares
The James Cagney Collection: The Public Enemy / White Heat / The Roaring Twenties / The Fighting 69th — Director — 1 exemplar
The John Wayne Century Collection (Big Jake / Donovan's Reef / El Dorado / Hatari! / Hondo / In Harm's Way /… — Director — 1 exemplar
World War II Collection: Volume One - Battlefront Europe (The Big Red One Two-Disc Special Edition / The Dirty Dozen /… (2005) — Director — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Wellman, William A.
- Nome legal
- Wellman, William Augustus
- Data de nascimento
- 1896-02-29
- Data de falecimento
- 1975-12-09
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Educação
- Newton High School, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA
- Ocupações
- film director
actor
ambulance driver (WWI)
fighter pilot - Relações
- Coonan, Dorothy (wife)
- Organizações
- Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps
Lafayette Flying Corps - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Croix de Guerre
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 73
- Also by
- 13
- Membros
- 751
- Popularidade
- #33,866
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Críticas
- 25
- ISBN
- 69
- Línguas
- 2
David O. Selznick produced and William A. Wellman directed what proved to be one of the finest moments in Carole Lombard’s career. Ben Hecht adapted the screenplay from James H. Street’s darkly humorous and cynical take on the newspaper business and the American public. Oscar Levant wrote the score and Raymond Scott and his Quintett add some swing music. Fredric March and Carole Lombard have a working chemistry that makes this one a load of fun.
March is Wally Cook, a star reporter for the “New York Morning Star” who has been demoted to the obituary page when he’s conned. Oliver Stone (Walter Connolly) his boss does have a heart, but only if you blast for it! Wally sees a chance to get back in Oliver’s good graces when he spots a short story about a young girl from the small town of Warsaw, Vermont, who has been diagnosed with radium poisoning and has only a short time to live. He heads for Warsaw to bring Hazel back and exploit the young girl cut down in her prime.
Carole Lombard is, of course, Hazel Flagg. The reason Hazel is crying isn’t because she’s dying, but rather because Dr. Enoch Downer (Charles Winninger) has just told Hazel he made a mistake and she’s going to have to remain in Warsaw after all. Hazel was going to use the 200 dollars you get from dying in Warsaw to see the world, and get out of the small town. As she tells Enoch: “It's startling to be brought to life twice, and each time in Warsaw!”
When Wally shows up and wants to take Hazel back to New York…well, you can guess the rest. Once they travel by plane to New York, which is a new experience for both Hazel and Enoch, the real fun begins. And of course a romance of sorts blooms by film's end.
Lombard is sweet and adorable as Hazel lives it up like she has no tomorrows, and thanks to a series of stories by Wally, becomes the toast of New York. In a romantic scene as they go sailing. Lombard’s beauty will simply take your breath away. Hazel is hilarious as she gets plastered at a casino and passes out before the devoted crowd. The cynicism of Ben Hecht’s script really shines when Oliver, standing over Hazel, inquires from Wally about her condition: “Don't spare my feelings. We go to press in 15 minutes.” There are many such moments contrasted against the sweetness of Hazel Flagg.
A fake drowning, a hilarious fight scene between Wally and Hazel, and Lombard dripping wet wearing a Fireman’s hat are scenes you just can’t miss in a film originally in early technicolor. Lombard would give her life for her country on an Indiana war bond tour and this film is a shining example of the magic she left behind. You do not want to miss it.… (mais)