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William Wyler

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by Gabriel Miller


  Distribution: United Artists

  101 minutes

  Come and Get It (1936)

  Samuel Goldwyn Production

  Directors: Howard Hawks and William Wyler

  Associate producer: Merritt Hulburd

  Logging scenes directed by: Richard Rosson

  Screenplay: Jules Furthman and Jane Murfin, based on the novel by Edna Ferber

  Photography: Gregg Toland and Rudolph Maté

  Editor: Edward Curtiss

  Art direction: Richard Day

  Set decoration: Julia Heron

  Costumes: Omar Kiam

  Music: Alfred Newman

  Assistant director: Walter Mayo

  Sound technician: Frank Maher

  Cast: Edward Arnold (Barney Glasgow), Joel McCrea (Richard Glasgow), Frances Farmer (Lotta Morgan/Lotta Bostrom), Walter Brennan (Swan Bostrom), Andrea Leeds (Evie Glasgow), Frank Shields (Tony Schwerke), Mady Christians (Karie), Mary Nash (Emma Louise Glasgow), Clem Bevans (Gunar Gallagher), Edwin Maxwell (Sid Le Maire), Cecil Cunningham (Josie), Harry Bradley (Gubbins), Rollo Lloyd (Steward), Charles Halton (Hewitt), Phillip Cooper (Chore Boy), Al K. Hall (Goodnow), Robert Lowery (Young Man), Jack Pennick (Foreman), Stanley Blystone, Constantine Romanoff, Harry Tenbrook, Max Wagner (Lumberjacks)

  Distribution: United Artists

  105 minutes

  Dead End (1937)

  Samuel Goldwyn Production

  Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

  Director: William Wyler

  Associate producer: Merritt Hulburd

  Screenplay: Lillian Hellman, based on the play by Sidney Kingsley as produced by Norman Bel Geddes

  Photography: Gregg Toland

  Editor: Daniel Mandell

  Art direction: Richard Day

  Set decoration: Julia Heron

  Costumes: Omar Kiam

  Music: Alfred Newman

  Assistant director: Eddie Bernoudy

  Sound recorder: Frank Maher

  Dialogue director: Edward P. Goodnow

  Cast: Sylvia Sidney (Drina Gordon), Joel McCrea (Dave Connell), Humphrey Bogart (“Baby Face” Martin), Wendy Barrie (Kay Burton), Claire Trevor (Francey), Allen Jenkins (Hunk), Marjorie Main (Mrs. Martin), Billy Halop (Tommy Gordon), Huntz Hall (Dippy), Bobby Jordan (Angel), Leo Gorcey (Spit), Gabriel Dell (T.B.), Bernard Punsley (Milty), Charles Peck (Philip Griswold), Minor Watson (Mr. Griswold), James Burke (Mulligan), Ward Bond (Doorman), Elisabeth Risdon (Mrs. Connell), Esther Dale (Mrs. Fenner), George Humbert (Mr. Pascalgi), Marcelle Corday (Governess), Charles Halton (Whitey), Donald Barry (Intern)

  Distribution: United Artists

  93 minutes

  Jezebel (1938)

  Warner Brothers

  Executive producer: Hal B. Wallis

  Director: William Wyler

  Associate producer: Henry Blanke

  Screenplay: Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, and John Huston, based on the play by Owen Davis Sr.

  Script contributor: Robert Buckner

  Photography: Ernest Haller

  Editor: Warren Low

  Art direction: Robert Haas

  Costumes: Orry-Kelly

  Music: Max Steiner

  Musical direction: Leo F. Forbstein

  Songs: “Jezebel” by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren; “Raise a Ruckus” by Harry Warren and Al Dubin

  Technical adviser: Dalton S. Reymond

  Assistant director: Bob Ross

  Sound: Robert B. Lee

  Cast: Bette Davis (Julie Marsden), Henry Fonda (Preston Dillard), George Brent (Buck Cantrell), Margaret Lindsay (Amy), Donald Crisp (Dr. Livingston), Fay Bainter (Aunt Belle), Richard Cromwell (Ted Dillard), Henry O'Neill (General Bogardus), Spring Byington (Mrs. Kendrick), John Litel (Jean La Cour), Gordon Oliver (Dick Allen), Janet Shaw (Molly Allen), Theresa Harris (Zette), Margaret Early (Stephanie Kendrick), Irving Pichel (Huger), Eddie Anderson (Gros Bat), Stymie Beard (Ti Bat), Lew Payton (Uncle Cato), George Renevant (De Lautruc), Georgia Caine (Mrs. Petion), Fred Lawrence (Bob), Ann Codee (Madam Pulard, Dressmaker), Daisy Bufford (Flower Girl), Trevor Bardette (Sheriff at Plantation), Jack Norton (Drunk), Jacques Vanaire (Duretta), Alan Bridge (New Orleans Sheriff)

  Distribution: Warner Brothers

  104 minutes

  Wuthering Heights (1939)

  Samuel Goldwyn Production

  Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, from the novel by Emily Brontë

  Photography: Gregg Toland

  Editor: Daniel Mandell

  Art direction: James Basevi

  Set decoration: Julia Heron

  Costumes: Omar Kiam

  Music: Alfred Newman

  Technical adviser: Peter Shaw

  Assistant director: Walter Mayo

  Sound recorder: Paul Neal

  Cast: Merle Oberon (Cathy), Laurence Olivier (Heathcliff), David Niven (Edgar Linton), Flora Robson (Ellen Dean), Donald Crisp (Dr. Kenneth), Hugh Williams (Hindley), Geraldine Fitzgerald (Isabella Linton), Leo G. Carroll (Joseph), Cecil Humphreys (Judge Linton), Miles Mander (Lockwood), Romaine Callender (Robert, the Butler), Cecil Kellaway (Earnshaw), Rex Downing (Heathcliff as a Child), Sarita Wooton (Cathy as a Child), Douglas Scott (Hindley as a Child), Helena Grant (Miss Hudkins), Susanne Leach (Guest), Tommy Martin and Schuyler Standish (Little Boys), Diane Williams (Little Girl), Mme. Alice Ahlers (Harpsichordist), Vernon Downing (Giles)

  Distribution: United Artists

  103 minutes

  1940s

  The Westerner (1940)

  Samuel Goldwyn Production

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: Jo Swerling and Niven Busch, based on a story by Stuart N. Lake

  Photography: Gregg Toland

  Editor: Daniel Mandell

  Art direction: James Basevi

  Set decoration: Julia Heron

  Costumes: Irene Saltern

  Music: composed and conducted by Dmitri Tiomkin (Alfred Newman, uncredited)

  Assistant director: Walter Mayo

  Cast: Gary Cooper (Cole Hardin), Walter Brennan (Judge Roy Bean), Doris Davenport (Jane-Ellen Mathews), Fred Stone (Caliphet Mathews), Forrest Tucker (Wade Harper), Lilian Bond (Lillie Langtry), Paul Hurst (Chickenfoot), Chill Wills (Southeast), Charles Halton (Mort Borrow), Tom Tyler (King Evans), Arthur Aylsworth (Mr. Dixon), Lupita Toyer (Teresita), Julian Rivero (Juan Gomez), Dana Andrews (Bart Cobble), Roger Gray (Eph Stringer), Trevor Bardette (Shad Wilkins), Jack Pennick (Bantry), Arthur Mix (Seth Tucker), Helen Foster (Janice), Connie Leon (Langtry's Maid), Charles Coleman (Langtry's Manager), Lew Kelly (Ticket Man), Heinie Conklin (Man at Window), Lucien Littlefield (Stranger), Corbet Morris (Orchestra Leader), Stanley Andrews (Sheriff), Henry Roquemore (Stage Manager), Hank Bell (Deputy), Bill Steele (Tex Cole), Blackjack Ward (Buck Harrigan), Jim Corey (Lee Webb), Buck Moulton (Charles Evans), Ted Wells (Joe Lawrence), Joe De La Cruz (Mex), Frank Cordell (Bean Henchman), Philip Connor (John Yancy), Capt. C. E. Anderson (Hezikiah Willever)

  Distribution: United Artists

  99 minutes

  The Letter (1940)

  Warner Brothers/First National

  In charge of production: Jack L. Warner

  Executive producer: Hal B. Wallis

  Director: William Wyler

  Associate producer: Robert Lord

  Screenplay: Howard Koch, based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham

  Photography: Tony Gaudio

  Editors: George Amy and Warren Low

  Art direction: Carl Jules-Weyl

  Gowns: Orry-Kelly

  Music: Max Steiner

  Technical advisers: Louis Vincenot and John Villasin

  Assistant director: Sherry Shourds

  Sound: Dolph Thomas

  Cast: Bette Davis (Leslie Crosbie), Herbert Marshall (Robert Crosbie), James Stephenson (Howard Joyce), Frieda Inescort (Dorothy Joyce), Gale Sondergaard (Mrs. Hammond), Bruce Lester (John Withers), Elizabeth Ea
rl (Adele Ainsworth), Cecil Kellaway (Prescott), Sen Yung (Ong Chi Seng), Doris Lloyd (Mrs. Cooper), Willie Fung (Chung Hi), Tetsu Kornai (Head Boy)

  Distribution: Warner Brothers

  95 minutes

  The Little Foxes (1941)

  Samuel Goldwyn Production

  Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: Lillian Hellman, based on her stage play as produced by Herman Shumlin

  Additional scenes and dialogue: Arthur Kober, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell

  Photography: Gregg Toland

  Editor: Daniel Mandell

  Art direction: Stephen Goosson

  Set decoration: Howard Bristol

  Costumes: Orry-Kelly

  Music: Meredith Wilson

  Sound recorder: Frank Maher

  Assistant director: William Tummel

  Cast: Bette Davis (Regina Hubbard Giddens), Herbert Marshall (Horace Giddens), Teresa Wright (Alexandra Giddens), Richard Carlson (David Hewitt), Patricia Collinge (Birdie Hubbard), Dan Duryea (Leo Hubbard), Charles Dingle (Ben Hubbard), Carl Benton Reid (Oscar Hubbard), John Marriott (Cal), Jessie Grayson (Addie), Russell Hicks (William Marshall), Lucien Littlefield (Sam Menders), Virginia Brissac (Mrs. Lucy Hewitt), Terry Nibert (Julia), Charles R. Moore (Simon), Henry “Hot Shot” Thomas (Harold), Alan Bridge (Hotel Manager), Kenny Washington (Servant), Hooper Atchley (Guest), Lew Kelly (Train Companion), Henry Roquemore (Depositor)

  Distribution: RKO Pictures

  116 minutes

  Mrs. Miniver (1942)

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

  Producer: Sidney Franklin

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, and Claudine West, based on the novel by Jan Struther

  Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg

  Editor: Harold F. Kress

  Art direction: Cedric Gibbons

  Set decoration: Edwin B. Willis

  Musical score: Herbert Stothart

  Song: “Midsummer's Day” by Gene Lockhart

  Cast: Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver), Walter Pidgeon (Clem Miniver), Teresa Wright (Carol Beldon), Dame May Whitty (Lady Beldon), Reginald Owen (Foley), Henry Travers (Mr. Ballard), Richard Ney (Olin Miniver), Henry Wilcoxon (Vicar), Christopher Severn (Toby Miniver), Brenda Forbes (Gladys), Clare Sandars (Judy Miniver), Marie de Becker (Ada), Helmut Dentine (German Flyer), John Abbott (Fred), Connie Leon (Simpson), Rhys William (Horace), Mary Field (Miss Spriggins), Ben Webster (Ginger), Paul Scardon (Nobby), Aubrey Mather (Innkeeper), Forrester Harvey (Huggins), Billy Sevin (Conductor), Ottola Smith (Saleslady), Gerald Oliver Smith (Car Dealer), Alec Craig (Joe), Clara Reid (Mrs. Huggins), John Burton (Halliday), Leonard Carey (Beldon's Butler), Eric Lonsdale (Marston), Arthur Wimperis (Sir Henry), David Clyde (Carruthers), Colin Campbell (Sickles), Herbert Clifton (Doctor), Thomas Louden (Mr. Verger), Peter Lawford (Pilot), Miles Mander (German Agent's Voice), St. Luke's Choristers

  Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

  134 minutes

  Memphis Belle (1944)

  Presented by: War Department

  Produced by: U.S. Eighth Air Force Photographic Section, in cooperation with Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit

  Producer: William Wyler

  Director: William Wyler

  Script: William Wyler

  Photography: William C. Clothier and Harold Tannenbaum (William Wyler, uncredited)

  Additional photography: William Wyler

  Editor: Lynn Harrison

  Music: Gail Kubik

  Narration: Lester Koenig

  Narrators: Eugene Kern and John Beal

  Distribution: Paramount Pictures Inc., under the auspices of the War Activities Committee

  41 minutes

  Thunderbolt (1945)

  Produced by: Carl Krueger Productions and the U.S. Air Force, under the command of Lieutenant Ira C. Eaker

  Direction and editing: William Wyler and John Sturges

  Script: Lester Koenig

  Music: Gail Kubik

  Introduced by: James Stewart

  Narrated by: Eugene Kern and Lloyd Bridges

  Distribution: Monogram Pictures

  44 minutes

  The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

  Samuel Goldwyn Production

  Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: Robert E. Sherwood, based on the verse novel Glory for Me by MacKinlay Kantor

  Photography: Gregg Toland

  Editor: Daniel Mandell

  Art direction: George Jenkins and Perry Ferguson

  Set decoration: Julia Heron

  Costume design: Irene Sharaff

  Musical score: Hugo Friedhofer

  Music direction: Emil Newman

  Assistant director: Joseph Boyle

  Production assistant: Lester Koenig

  Cast: Myrna Loy (Milly Stephenson), Fredric March (Al Stephenson), Dana Andrews (Fred Derry), Teresa Wright (Peggy Stephenson), Virginia Mayo (Marie Derry), Cathy O'Donnell (Wilma Cameron), Hoagy Carmichael (Butch Engel), Harold Russell (Homer Parrish), Gladys George (Hortense Derry), Roman Bohnen (Mr. Derry), Ray Collins (Mr. Milton), Steve Cochran (Cliff), Minna Gombell (Mrs. Parrish), Walter Baldwin (Mr. Parrish), Dorothy Adams (Mrs. Cameron), Don Beddoe (Mr. Cameron), Victor Cutler (Woody), Erskine Sandord (Bullard), Marlene Aames (Luella Parrish), Michael Hall (Rob Stephenson), Charles Halton (Prew), Ray Teal (Mr. Mollett), Howland Chamberlin (Thorpe), Dean White (Novak), Ralph Sanford (George Gibbons) Distribution: RKO Pictures

  172 minutes

  The Heiress (1949)

  Paramount

  Producer: William Wyler

  Director: William Wyler

  Associate producers: Lester Koenig and Robert Wyler

  Screenplay: Ruth and Augustus Goetz, based on their play The Heiress, suggested by the novel Washington Square by Henry James

  Photography: Leo Tover

  Editor: William Hornbeck

  Production design: Harry Horner

  Art direction: John Meehan

  Set decoration: Emile Kuri

  Costumes: Edith Head

  Makeup supervision: Wally Westmore

  Music: Aaron Copland

  Special photographic effects: Gordon Jennings

  Assistant director: C. C. Coleman Jr.

  Cast: Olivia de Havilland (Catherine Sloper), Montgomery Clift (Morris Townsend), Ralph Richardson (Dr. Austin Sloper), Miriam Hopkins (Lavinia Penniman), Mona Freeman (Marian Almond), Vanessa Brown (Maria), Selena Hoyle (Elizabeth Almond), Ray Collins (Jefferson Almond), Betty Linley (Mrs. Montgomery), Paul Lees (Arthur Townsend), Harry Antrim (Mr. Abeel), Russ Conway (Quintus), Davis Thursby (Geier), Donald Kerr (Fish Peddler), Harry Pipe (Mr. Gebhardt), Una Mortished (Chambermaid), Ralph Sanford (Captain, Castle Queen), Lester Dorr (Groom)

  Distribution: Paramount

  115 minutes

  1950s

  Detective Story (1951)

  Paramount

  Producer: William Wyler

  Director: William Wyler

  Associate producers: Lester Koenig and Robert Wyler

  Screenplay: Philip Yordan and Robert Wyler, based on the play by Sidney Kingsley

  Photography: Lee Garmes

  Editor: Robert Swink

  Art direction: Hal Pereira and Earl Hedrick

  Set decoration: Emile Kuri

  Costumes: Edith Head

  Cast: Kirk Douglas (Detective James McLeod), Eleanor Parker (Mary McLeod), William Bendix (Detective Lou Brody), Cathy O'Donnell (Susan Carmichael), Bert Freed (Detective Dakis), Frank Faylen (Detective Gallagher), William Phillips (Callahan), Grandon Rhodes (Detective O'Brien), Luis Van Rooten (Joe Feinson), Craig Hill (Arthur Kindred), Lee Grant (Shoplifter), Horace McMahon (Lt. Monaghan), Warner Anderson (Endicott Sims), George Macready (Karl Schneider), Joseph Wiseman (Charles Gennini), Michael Strong (Lewis Abbott), Russell Evans (Patrolman Barnes), Howard Joslyn (Patrolman Keogh), Gl
adys George (Miss Hatch), Burt Mustin (Willy), Gerald Mohr (Tami Giacopetti), James Maloney (Mr. Pritchett), Edmund F. Cobb (Detective), Mike Mahoney (Coleman), Catherine Doucet (Mrs. Farrigut), Ann Codee (Frenchwoman), Ralph Montgomery (Finney), Pat Flaherty (Desk Sergeant), Bob Scot (Mulvey), Harper Goff (Galents), Donald Kerr (Taxi Driver)

  Distribution: Paramount

  103 minutes

  Carrie (1952)

  Paramount

  Producer: William Wyler

  Director: William Wyler

  Associate producer: Lester Koenig

  Screenplay: Ruth and Augustus Goetz, based on the novel Sister Carrie by Theodore Dresier

  Photography: Victor Milner

  Editor: Robert Swink

  Art direction: Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson

  Set decoration: Emile Kuri

  Costumes: Edith Head

  Musical score: David Raskin

  Cast: Laurence Olivier (George Hurstwood), Jennifer Jones (Carrie Meeber), Miriam Hopkins (Julia Hurstwood), Eddie Albert (Charles Drouet), Basil Ruysdael (Mr. Fitzgerald), Ray Teal (Allen), Barry Kelley (Slawson), Sara Berner (Mrs. Oransky), William Reynolds (George Hurstwood Jr.), Mary Murphy (Jessica Hurstwood), Harry Hayden (O'Brien), Charles Halton (Factory Foreman), Walter Baldwin (Carrie's Father), Dorothy Adams (Carrie's Mother), Jacqueline de Wit (Carrie's Sister, Minnie), Harlan Briggs (Joe Brant), Melinda Plowman (Little Girl), Donald Kerr (Slawson's Bartender), Lester Sharpe (Mr. Blum), Don Beddoe (Mr. Goodman), John Alvin (Stage Manager), Judith Adams (Bride), Martin Doric (Maitre d’), Ralph Sanford (Waiter)

  Distribution: Paramount

  118 minutes

  Roman Holiday (1953)

  Paramount

  Producer: William Wyler

  Director: William Wyler

  Associate producer: Robert Wyler

  Screenplay: Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton, and Dalton Trumbo, based on a story by Ian McLellan Hunter

  Photography: Frank F. Planer and Henri Alekan

  Editor: Robert Swink

  Art direction: Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler

  Costumes: Edith Head

  Musical score: Georges Auric

  Assitant directors: Herbert Coleman and Piero Mussetta

  Cast: Gregory Peck (Joe Bradley), Audrey Hepburn (Princess Anne), Eddie Albert (Irving Radovich), Hartley Power (Mr. Hennessy), Harcourt Williams (Ambassador), Margaret Rawlings (Countess Vereberg), Tullio Carminati (General Provno), Paolo Carlini (Mario Delani), Claudio Ermelli (Giovanni), Paolo Borboni (Charwoman), Alfredo Rizzo (Taxicab Driver), Laura Solari (Hennessy's Secretary), Gorella Gori (Shoe Seller)

 

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