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Michael Gordon (film director)

Index Michael Gordon (film director)

Michael Gordon (born Irving Kunin Gordon; September 6, 1909 – April 29, 1993) was an American stage actor and stage and film director. [1]

55 relations: A Very Special Favor, Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Awards, Action film, An Act of Murder, Another Part of the Forest (film), B movie, Baltimore, Blacklisting, Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood, Boys' Night Out (film), Century City, Los Angeles, Clifford Odets, Comedy film, Communism, Crime Doctor (film), Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film), Death by natural causes, Doris Day, Elia Kazan, Film noir, For Love or Money (1963 film), Group Theatre (New York City), Harry Morgan, Hollywood, How Do I Love Thee?, Howard Da Silva, I Can Get It for You Wholesale (film), Irwin Shaw, Jews, John Garfield, Johns Hopkins University, José Ferrer, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Joseph McCarthy, Lee J. Cobb, McCarthyism, Melodrama, Middle class, Move Over, Darling, Nichols, Connecticut, Once More, My Darling, Pillow Talk (film), Pine Brook Country Club, Portrait in Black, Rock Hudson, Ross Hunter, Texas Across the River, The Lady Gambles, The Secret of Convict Lake, ..., The Web (film), UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, Will Geer. Expand index (5 more) »

A Very Special Favor

A Very Special Favor is a 1965 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Gordon, and starring Rock Hudson and Leslie Caron.

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Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Action film

Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases.

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An Act of Murder

An Act of Murder (also known as Live Today for Tomorrow and I Stand Accused) is a 1948 American film noir directed by Michael Gordon, starring Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien, Florence Eldridge, and Geraldine Brooks.

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Another Part of the Forest (film)

Another Part of the Forest is a 1948 American drama film starring Fredric March and directed by Michael Gordon.

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B movie

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial movie, but not an arthouse film.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

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Blacklisting

Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority, compiling a blacklist (or black list) of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as not being acceptable to those making the list.

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Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood is a 1942 American crime film, fourth of the fourteen Boston Blackie films of the 1940s Columbia's series of B pictures based on Jack Boyle's pulp-fiction character.

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Boys' Night Out (film)

Boys' Night Out is a 1962 American romantic comedy film, starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and featuring Janet Blair, Patti Page, Jessie Royce Landis, Oscar Homolka, Howard Duff and Howard Morris. It was directed by Michael Gordon and was written by Ira Wallach based on a story by Arne Sultan and Marvin Worth. The film is about three men who are looking to meet needs that are not being satisfied in their marriages, and their bachelor friend, who arrange for a "kept woman", who is in reality a sociology student studying contemporary American men.

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Century City, Los Angeles

Century City is a 176-acre (71.2 ha) neighborhood and business district in Los Angeles County's Westside.

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Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director.

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

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Crime Doctor (film)

Crime Doctor (1943) is a crime film adapted from the radio series of the same name.

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Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 drama romance film based on the 1897 French Alexandrine verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.

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Death by natural causes

A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is the end result of an illness or an internal malfunction of the body not directly caused by external forces, typically due to old age.

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Doris Day

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922) is an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist.

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Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan (born Elias Kazantzoglou; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

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For Love or Money (1963 film)

For Love or Money is a 1963 romantic comedy film distributed by Universal International, produced by Robert Arthur, directed by Michael Gordon, and starring Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, and Gig Young.

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Group Theatre (New York City)

The Group Theatre was a theater collective based in New York City and formed in 1931 by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg.

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Harry Morgan

Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor and director whose television and film career spanned six decades.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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How Do I Love Thee?

How Do I Love Thee? is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed by Michael Gordon.

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Howard Da Silva

Howard Da Silva (born Howard Silverblatt, May 4, 1909 – February 16, 1986) was an American actor, director and musical performer on stage, film, television and radio.

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I Can Get It for You Wholesale (film)

I Can Get It for You Wholesale is a 1951 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Gordon.

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Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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John Garfield

John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle, March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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José Ferrer

José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor and theatre and film director.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, and entrepreneur.

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Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.

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Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacoby, December 8, 1911February 11, 1976) was an American actor.

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McCarthyism

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

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Melodrama

A melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

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Middle class

The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy.

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Move Over, Darling

Move Over, Darling is a 1963 American comedy film starring Doris Day, James Garner, and Polly Bergen and directed by Michael Gordon.

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Nichols, Connecticut

Nichols, a historic village in southeastern Trumbull on the Gold Coast (Connecticut) of Fairfield County, was named after the family who maintained a large farm in its center for almost 300 years.

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Once More, My Darling

Once More, My Darling is a 1949 American comedy film directed by and starring Robert Montgomery, and Ann Blyth.

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Pillow Talk (film)

Pillow Talk is a 1959 Oscar-winning Eastmancolor romantic comedy film in CinemaScope directed by Michael Gordon.

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Pine Brook Country Club

Pine Brook Country Club began when Benjamin Plotkin purchased Pinewood Lake and the surrounding countryside on Mischa Hill in the historic village of Nichols, Connecticut.

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Portrait in Black

Portrait in Black is a 1960 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Michael Gordon, and starring Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn.

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Rock Hudson

Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor, generally known for his turns as a leading man during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Ross Hunter

Ross Hunter (May 6, 1926 March 10, 1996) was an American film and television producer and actor.

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Texas Across the River

Texas Across The River is a 1966 western film comedy/satire with Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth and Joey Bishop.

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The Lady Gambles

The Lady Gambles is a 1949 film noir drama film directed by Michael Gordon starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston and Stephen McNally.

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The Secret of Convict Lake

The Secret of Convict Lake is a 1951 American black-and-white western film starring Glenn Ford and Gene Tierney.

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The Web (film)

The Web is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by Michael Gordon starring Ella Raines, Edmond O'Brien, William Bendix and Vincent Price.

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UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA TFT), is one of the 11 schools within the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) located in Los Angeles, California.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, United States.

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Will Geer

Will Geer (March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978) was an American actor and social activist, known for his portrayal of Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series The Waltons.

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