William Wyler
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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)