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I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History

eBook, English, 2009
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2009
1 online resource (501 pages)
9780299226435, 0299226433
1043364423
Foreword, by Sidney Poitier; Foreword, by Elmore Leonard; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. My Family; 2. The University of Wisconsin; 3. Los Angeles and Monogram; 4. Allied Artists; 5. The 1950s; 6. The Screen Producers Guild; 7. Back at Allied Artists; 8. Moulin Productions, Inc.; 9. William Wyler and Friendly Persuasion and Billy Wilder and Love in the Afternoon; 10. On Our Own; 11. Billy Wilder and Some Like It Hot; 12. John Ford and The Horse Soldiers; 13. John Sturges and The Magnificent Seven; 14. The 1960s; 15. West Side Story; 16. One, Two, Three and Other Projects. 17. William Wyler, Elvis Presley, and John Sturges18. A Big Hit and a Few Misses; 19. Blake Edwards and The Pink Panther; 20. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; 21. 633 Squadron, a New Corporate Entity, and Unrealized Projects ; 22. The Start of a Jinx and Cinerama; 23. Hawaii; 24. A New Relationship with Norman Jewison; 25. In the Heat of the Night; 26. A Western, a Comedy, a Drama, and a Caper; 27. Personal Matters-Familial and Corporate; 28. Dark Days for the Film Industry; 29. Billy Wilder and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and Avanti!; 30. Fiddler on the Roof. 31. Goodbye to United Artists32. Hello to Universal; 33. The Return of Peter Sellers; 34. The 1980s and 1990s; Epilogue; Filmography; Career Milestones and Awards; Index