Exclusive: The WGA East is honoring Tony Gilroy at the upcoming Writers Guild Awards with the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement.
With the award, which was established in 1992, the Andor creator will be following in the footsteps of his father Frank D. Gilroy, who was honored with the Hunter Award in 2011.
“Tony embodies the best of what it means to be a Writers Guild member. He is an extraordinary talent who has written some of the most thought-provoking and exciting screenplays of the last 30 years,” Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, President of the Writers Guild of America East, said in a statement. “He is also a staunch union ally, one of our most trusted voices when it comes to advocating for writers’ rights, and he gave one of the best damn speeches on the picket lines last summer. We all wish we were Tony, but short of that we are...
With the award, which was established in 1992, the Andor creator will be following in the footsteps of his father Frank D. Gilroy, who was honored with the Hunter Award in 2011.
“Tony embodies the best of what it means to be a Writers Guild member. He is an extraordinary talent who has written some of the most thought-provoking and exciting screenplays of the last 30 years,” Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, President of the Writers Guild of America East, said in a statement. “He is also a staunch union ally, one of our most trusted voices when it comes to advocating for writers’ rights, and he gave one of the best damn speeches on the picket lines last summer. We all wish we were Tony, but short of that we are...
- 2/27/2024
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
By Lee Pfeiffer
It isn't often that you might expect to read the word "delightful" in a review of a Charles Bronson movie but "From Noon Till Three" is just that: a delightful 1976 send-up of the traditional Western genre. In fact it seems like this was the year in which numerous revisionist Westerns were released. They included "Buffalo Bill and the Indians", "The Outlaw Josey Wales", "The Missouri Breaks" and John Wayne's final film, "The Shootist". By 1976 Charles Bronson was an established screen presence for about two decades.He was a familiar face to American movie-goers who liked his work as a supporting actor but it was the European market that elevated him to star status. Bronson finally began to get top-billing in Westerns and action films and became reasonably popular in America. But it was the 1974 release of his smash hit "Death Wish" that saw him soar to the level of superstar.
It isn't often that you might expect to read the word "delightful" in a review of a Charles Bronson movie but "From Noon Till Three" is just that: a delightful 1976 send-up of the traditional Western genre. In fact it seems like this was the year in which numerous revisionist Westerns were released. They included "Buffalo Bill and the Indians", "The Outlaw Josey Wales", "The Missouri Breaks" and John Wayne's final film, "The Shootist". By 1976 Charles Bronson was an established screen presence for about two decades.He was a familiar face to American movie-goers who liked his work as a supporting actor but it was the European market that elevated him to star status. Bronson finally began to get top-billing in Westerns and action films and became reasonably popular in America. But it was the 1974 release of his smash hit "Death Wish" that saw him soar to the level of superstar.
- 3/17/2022
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Bronson’s Loose Again!: On the Set with Charles Bronson is author Paul Talbot’s all-new companion volume to his acclaimed Bronson’s Loose!: The Making of the ‘Death Wish’ Films. His new book reveals more information on the Death Wish series and also details the complex histories behind eighteen other Charles Bronson movies. Documented herein are fascinating tales behind some of the finest Bronson films of the mid-1970s (including Hard Times and From Noon Till Three); his big-budget independent epics Love And Bullets and Cabo Blanco; his lesser-known, underrated dramas Borderline and Act Of Vengeance; his notorious sleaze/action Cannon Films classics of the 80s (including 10 To Midnight, Murphy’S Law and Kinjite: Forbidden Sunjects); the numerous unmade projects he was attached to; and his TV movies of the 90s (including The Sea Wolf). Exhaustively researched, the book features over three dozen exclusive, candid interviews including...
- 6/27/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Director Robert Montgomery's last is a war movie like no other, a study in leadership and command with no combat scenes. James Cagney uses none of his standard personality mannerisms; the result is something very affecting. And that music! You'll think the whole show is the memory of a soul in heaven. The Gallant Hours Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1960 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 115 min. / Street Date April 5, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Vaughn Taylor, Richard Jaeckel, Les Tremayne, Walter Sande, Karl Swenson, Leon Lontoc, Robert Burton, Carleton Young, Raymond Bailey, Harry Landers, Richard Carlyle, James Yagi, James T. Goto, Carl Benton Reid, Selmer Jackson, Frank Latimore, Nelson Leigh, Herbert Lytton, Stuart Randall, William Schallert, Arthur Tovey, John Zaremba. Cinematography Joseph MacDonald Art Director Wiard Ihnen Original Music Roger Wagner Written by Beirne Lay Jr., Frank D. Gilroy Produced and Directed by Robert Montgomery...
- 4/15/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Frank Gilroy, playwright, screenwriter, director and author, has passed away at the age of 89.
The writer died of natural causes at his home on Saturday night, according to a statement released by his publicist Cynthia Swartz (via The Wrap).
Gilroy achieved his first big success with the play The Subject Was Roses, which won the playwright a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award and a Drama Circle honour.
The play was later adapted into a film starring Martin Sheen, Patricia Neal and Jack Albertson in 1968 and received two Oscar nominations, with Albertson winning the Best Supporting Actor award.
Among his other filmmaking credits, Gilroy wrote 1956's The Fastest Gun Alive starring Glenn Ford, as well as The Only Game in Town which featured Elizabeth Taylor and Warren Beatty in 1969.
Gilroy's sons followed their father into Hollywood, with Tony being the screenwriter behind the Matt Damon-starring Bourne films, and Dan directing Jake Gyllenhaal in 2014's Nightcrawler.
The writer died of natural causes at his home on Saturday night, according to a statement released by his publicist Cynthia Swartz (via The Wrap).
Gilroy achieved his first big success with the play The Subject Was Roses, which won the playwright a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award and a Drama Circle honour.
The play was later adapted into a film starring Martin Sheen, Patricia Neal and Jack Albertson in 1968 and received two Oscar nominations, with Albertson winning the Best Supporting Actor award.
Among his other filmmaking credits, Gilroy wrote 1956's The Fastest Gun Alive starring Glenn Ford, as well as The Only Game in Town which featured Elizabeth Taylor and Warren Beatty in 1969.
Gilroy's sons followed their father into Hollywood, with Tony being the screenwriter behind the Matt Damon-starring Bourne films, and Dan directing Jake Gyllenhaal in 2014's Nightcrawler.
- 9/13/2015
- Digital Spy
Frank D. Gilroy, a successful playwright, screenwriter, director and author who won the Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award and a Drama Circle honor for his play “The Subject Was Roses,” has died. He was 89. Gilroy died Saturday evening from natural causes, according a statement released by his publicist Cynthia Swartz. Gilroy had a prolific writing career. Among his other plays were “Last Licks” and “Any Given Day”and he previously served as president of the Dramatists Guild. Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2015 (Photos) Gilroy also wrote the movie version of “The Subject Was Roses” starring Martin Sheen, Patricia Neal and Jack.
- 9/13/2015
- by Anita Bennett
- The Wrap
Frank D. Gilroy, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter and director, died Saturday evening from natural causes. He was 89. Gilroy wrote the 1964 play The Subject Was Roses, for which he won the Tony Award for best play and the Pultizer Prize for drama. The play centers on a World War II veteran returning home to deal with family tension. He also worked in Hollywood, writing screenplays including the 1968 film adaptation of The Subject Was Roses. Other Hollywood film work included the screenplay for The Gallant Hours (1960), which starred James Cagney, along with writing and directing Desperate Characters (1971)
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- 9/13/2015
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, director and author Frank D. Gilroy died last night from natural causes at age 89. Gilroy leaves behind his wife Ruth of 62 years, his three sons Tony, Dan and John, and grandchildren Sam, Carolyn, Taylor, Rose, and Kathryn Gilroy. The family just confirmed his death. A former president of the Dramatists Guild, Gilroy won the Pulitzer for his play The Subject Was Roses, and his legacy extends to his three sons. Tony Gilroy…...
- 9/13/2015
- Deadline
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, director and author Frank D. Gilroy died last night from natural causes at age 89. Gilroy leaves behind his wife Ruth of 62 years, his three sons Tony, Dan and John, and grandchildren Sam, Carolyn, Taylor, Rose, and Kathryn Gilroy. The family just confirmed his death. A former president of the Dramatists Guild, Gilroy won the Pulitzer for his play The Subject Was Roses, and his legacy extends to his three sons. Tony Gilroy…...
- 9/13/2015
- Deadline TV
The Gig, a musical by Douglas J. Cohen No Way to Treat a Lady, The Big Time, based on the 1985 film by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner Frank D. Gilroy The Subject Was Roses, is a selection of the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival Nymf, making its New York City debut at the PTC Performance Space, tonight, July 15 - July 21.
- 7/15/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Gig, a musical by Douglas J. Cohen No Way to Treat a Lady, The Big Time, based on the 1985 film by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner Frank D. Gilroy The Subject Was Roses, is a selection of the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival Nymf, making its New York City debut at the PTC Performance Space, July 15 - July 21.
- 6/20/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Blu-ray Release Date: June 11, 2013
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time
Elizabeth Taylor and Warren Beatty become uneasy lovers in The Only Game in Town.
Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra) and Warren Beatty (Ishtar) star in filmmaker George Stevens’ final movie, the 1970 drama-romance film The Only Game in Town.
Taylor stars as an aging and exhausted showgirl fed up with waiting for her married lover (Charles Braswell) to divorce his wife, while Beatty portrays a piano-playing gambling addict who keeps compulsively losing the stake he needs to high-tail it to New York. Together, they parlay an instant attraction into a mutual effort to get their lives together—no strings attached.
Written by Frank D. Gilroy, who adapted his own Las Vegas-set stage play, The Only Game in Town was gorgeously shot by French New Wave stalwart Henri Decaë (known for his work with Jean-Pierre Melville and Claude Chabrol) and scored by the great Maurice Jarre...
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time
Elizabeth Taylor and Warren Beatty become uneasy lovers in The Only Game in Town.
Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra) and Warren Beatty (Ishtar) star in filmmaker George Stevens’ final movie, the 1970 drama-romance film The Only Game in Town.
Taylor stars as an aging and exhausted showgirl fed up with waiting for her married lover (Charles Braswell) to divorce his wife, while Beatty portrays a piano-playing gambling addict who keeps compulsively losing the stake he needs to high-tail it to New York. Together, they parlay an instant attraction into a mutual effort to get their lives together—no strings attached.
Written by Frank D. Gilroy, who adapted his own Las Vegas-set stage play, The Only Game in Town was gorgeously shot by French New Wave stalwart Henri Decaë (known for his work with Jean-Pierre Melville and Claude Chabrol) and scored by the great Maurice Jarre...
- 5/28/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The Western was a movie staple for decades. It seemed the genre that would never die, feeding the fantasies of one generation after another of young boys who galloped around their backyards, playgrounds, and brick streets on broomsticks, banging away with their Mattel cap pistols. Something about a man on a horse set against the boundless wastes of Monument Valley, the crackle of saddle leather, two men facing off in a dusty street under the noon sun connected with the free spirit in every kid.
The American movie – a celluloid telling that was more than a skit – was born in a Western: Edwin S. Porter’s 11- minute The Great Train Robbery (1903). Thereafter, Westerns grew longer, they grew more complex. The West – hostile, endless, civilization barely maintaining a toehold against the elements, hostile natives, and robber barons – proved an infinitely plastic setting. In a place with no law, and where...
The American movie – a celluloid telling that was more than a skit – was born in a Western: Edwin S. Porter’s 11- minute The Great Train Robbery (1903). Thereafter, Westerns grew longer, they grew more complex. The West – hostile, endless, civilization barely maintaining a toehold against the elements, hostile natives, and robber barons – proved an infinitely plastic setting. In a place with no law, and where...
- 1/3/2013
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
Director Ulu Grosbard, a two-time Tony Award nominee whose credits include two Dustin Hoffman films of the 1970s and several collaborations with Robert Duvall, has died, The New York Times reported. He was 83. His nephew, Robert Grosbard, told the newspaper that the director, a native of Belgium, died late Sunday or early Monday at Nyu Langone Medical Center in New York. He had lived in Greenwich Village for years. Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2012 Grosbard was nominated for his first Tony in 1965 for The Subject Was Roses, Frank D. Gilroy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a
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- 3/21/2012
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"Ulu Grosbard, a director whose affinity for naturalistic drama shaped critical successes like the original Broadway production of David Mamet's American Buffalo and the film version of John Gregory Dunne's novel True Confessions, has died in Manhattan," reports Bruce Weber in the New York Times. He was 83. "Mr Grosbard's work was divided evenly between the theater and the movies, and though he had a long career, stretching across nearly half a century, he was highly selective in his projects. Known for his skill in cajoling substantive performances from actors and his unhurried, perfectionist's approach to polishing a script and staging a scene, he worked with distinguished playwrights on Broadway, including Arthur Miller (The Price), Beth Henley (The Wake of Jamey Foster) and Woody Allen (The Floating Light Bulb) and cultivated relationships with revered stars, including Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall."
Kristin McMurran profiled Grosbard and his wife,...
Kristin McMurran profiled Grosbard and his wife,...
- 3/21/2012
- MUBI
The annual Primary Stages November Night to Remember Gala, a fundraiser benefiting the extensive artistic development programs offered by the company, was just held at the Edison Ballroom, last night, November 9, 2011. Each year at their annual Gala, Primary Stages honors an individual or group who has made significant contributions to the American theater. This year's gala honored the writers, lyricists, and composers who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Honorary Committee of Pulitzer Prize Winners includes Edward Albee, David Auburn, Michael Cristofer, Nilo Cruz, Charles Fuller, Frank Gilroy, Sheldon Harnick, Beth Henley, Tom Kitt, James Lapine, Tracy Letts, David Lindsay-Abaire, Donald Margulies, Marsha Norman, Bruce Norris, Lynn Nottage, Robert Schenkkan, Stephen Sondheim, Alfred Uhry, Paula Vogel, Doug Wright, and Brian Yorkey.
- 11/10/2011
- by Peter James Zielinski
- BroadwayWorld.com
10 Questions With Kenneth Mars
As part of a recurring feature I was doing then, about 10 years ago I did a “10 Questions” piece with the now late, great comic actor Kenneth Mars (The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Fletch, The Little Mermaid and more). I thought I’d pull that piece from the vaults to mark his passing…
1. What is your favorite piece of music?
The operas La Boheme and Madame Butterfly, and anything by Gilbert and Sullivan.
2. What is your favorite film?
Anything by Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen’s Crimes & Misdemeanors, The Producers, and What’s Up Doc?.
3. What is your favorite TV program, past or current?
Current: Will and Grace. Past: He & She
4. What do you feel has been your most important professional accomplishment to date?
Acting in the film Desperate Characters, directed by Frank Gilroy.
5. Which project do you feel didn’t live up to what you envisioned?
A play...
As part of a recurring feature I was doing then, about 10 years ago I did a “10 Questions” piece with the now late, great comic actor Kenneth Mars (The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Fletch, The Little Mermaid and more). I thought I’d pull that piece from the vaults to mark his passing…
1. What is your favorite piece of music?
The operas La Boheme and Madame Butterfly, and anything by Gilbert and Sullivan.
2. What is your favorite film?
Anything by Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen’s Crimes & Misdemeanors, The Producers, and What’s Up Doc?.
3. What is your favorite TV program, past or current?
Current: Will and Grace. Past: He & She
4. What do you feel has been your most important professional accomplishment to date?
Acting in the film Desperate Characters, directed by Frank Gilroy.
5. Which project do you feel didn’t live up to what you envisioned?
A play...
- 2/15/2011
- by UncaScroogeMcD
HollywoodNews.com: The Writers Guild of America, West (Wgaw) and the Writers Guild of America, East (Wgae) tonight announced the winners of the 2011 Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for screen, television, radio, news, promotional, videogame, and new media writing at simultaneous ceremonies at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel-Grand Ballroom in Los Angeles and the Axa Equitable Center in New York City.
Screen Winners
Original Screenplay
Inception, Written by Christopher Nolan; Warner Bros.
Adapted Screenplay
The Social Network, Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin; Based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich; Sony Pictures
Documentary Screenplay
Inside Job, Written by Charles Ferguson; Co-written by Chad Beck, Adam Bolt; Sony Pictures Classic
Television Winners
Drama Series
Mad Men, Written by Jonathan Abrahams, Lisa Albert, Keith Huff, Jonathan Igla,Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Brett Johnson, Janet Leahy, Erin Levy,
Tracy McMillan, Dahvi Waller, Matthew Weiner; AMC
Comedy Series
Modern Family, Written by Jerry Collins,...
Screen Winners
Original Screenplay
Inception, Written by Christopher Nolan; Warner Bros.
Adapted Screenplay
The Social Network, Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin; Based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich; Sony Pictures
Documentary Screenplay
Inside Job, Written by Charles Ferguson; Co-written by Chad Beck, Adam Bolt; Sony Pictures Classic
Television Winners
Drama Series
Mad Men, Written by Jonathan Abrahams, Lisa Albert, Keith Huff, Jonathan Igla,Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Brett Johnson, Janet Leahy, Erin Levy,
Tracy McMillan, Dahvi Waller, Matthew Weiner; AMC
Comedy Series
Modern Family, Written by Jerry Collins,...
- 2/6/2011
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
New York City – Television, film, stage, and news headliners are set to take the stage for the 2011 Writers Guild of America Awards ceremony in New York City. Kristen Schaal (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Flight of the Conchords) will host the 63rd annual Writers Guild Awards in New York City on Saturday, February 5, 2011 at the Axa Equitable Center. Award presenters include: Kathleen Turner, John Larroquette, Donnie Wahlberg, Judah Friedlander, Merritt Wever, Vincent Piazza, Gretchen Mol, Erica Slezak, Matthew Settle, John Hodgman, John Waters, Peter Riegert, Marshall Brickman, Jenny Lumet, and Chris Wragge. Additional presenters are expected to be added to the line-up. In addition: * Tony Gilroy will present his father Frank Gilroy with the Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Writing. * The Television Academy Foundation’s Archive of American Television will receive the Burkey Award for contributions that have brought honor and dignity to writers. * Marianne Pryor will...
- 1/31/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Six-time Emmy winner Anthony Geary was voted the Greatest Soap Actor of All-Time by a panel of 15 past and present soap critics assembled by We Love Soaps TV. While soap fans will always think of him as the bad-boy-turned-sort-of-good-turned-especially-bad-lately Luke Spencer on General Hospital, Geary has made an impact in all mediums, from the theater to daytime to primetime episodics to movies. His latest musical, "Into The Woods," opens on Friday, October 22, where Geary will be playing the Narrator / Mysterious man. In this exclusive two-part new interview with We Love Soaps TV, Geary previews the new musical and reflects on a long and storied career spanning four decades.
We Love Soaps TV: So, congratulations on your new show ("Into The Woods").
Anthony Geary: Thank you.
We Love Soaps TV: When we did our countdown of the 50 Greatest Actors, we published some classic articles on you and there was one...
We Love Soaps TV: So, congratulations on your new show ("Into The Woods").
Anthony Geary: Thank you.
We Love Soaps TV: When we did our countdown of the 50 Greatest Actors, we published some classic articles on you and there was one...
- 10/31/2010
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Who will protect us from Gort now? Patricia Neal has died at age 84. She had a life full of accomplishment as well as tragedy. So many great films: Hud, The Day The Earth Stood Still, A Face In The Crowd, The Fountainhead and more
From The New York Times:
Patricia Neal, who made her way from Kentucky.s coal country to Hollywood and Broadway, winning an Academy Award and a Tony, but whose life alternated almost surreally between triumph and tragedy, died on Sunday at her home in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha.s Vineyard. She was 84.
The death was announced by her family in Edgartown. A friend, Bud Albers, told The Associated Press that Ms. Neal, who also lived in Manhattan, had had lung cancer.
Ms. Neal received her Oscar, as best actress, in 1964, for her performance in Hud as the tough, shopworn housekeeper who did not succumb toPaul Newman’s amoral charm.
From The New York Times:
Patricia Neal, who made her way from Kentucky.s coal country to Hollywood and Broadway, winning an Academy Award and a Tony, but whose life alternated almost surreally between triumph and tragedy, died on Sunday at her home in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha.s Vineyard. She was 84.
The death was announced by her family in Edgartown. A friend, Bud Albers, told The Associated Press that Ms. Neal, who also lived in Manhattan, had had lung cancer.
Ms. Neal received her Oscar, as best actress, in 1964, for her performance in Hud as the tough, shopworn housekeeper who did not succumb toPaul Newman’s amoral charm.
- 8/10/2010
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Patricia Neal, the Oscar-winning actress whose life off-screen contained as much drama, tragedy, and inspiration as any of her film or theater roles, died Sunday at her home in Martha's Vineyard of lung cancer; she was 84.
An Oscar, Tony and Golden Globe winner, Neal was just as well-known for the trials, tribulations and triumphs she lived through, including a nervous breakdown, the death of one of her children, and a series of strokes that left her in a three-week coma while pregnant at the age of 39. Her subsequent rehabilitation, with the help of her then-husband, author Roald Dahl, led to yet another chapter of her acting career, as well as her pioneering for the cause of stroke rehabilitation.
Born Patsy Louise Neal in Packard, Kentucky in 1926, Neal grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, and studied acting at Northwestern University before heading to New York, where she began her long and illustrious stage career, winning a Tony Award in 1946 for Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest, which attracted the attention of Hollywood. Though she filmed the comedy John Loves Mary first in 1949 -- a film in which she played the Mary to future President Ronald Reagan's John -- it was the second film she made that year which introduced her to audiences with a huge splash: the highly-anticipated adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, where she played conflicted, imperious heroine Dominique Francon opposite Gary Cooper's stalwart architect Howard Roark, already a famed character thanks to the success of Rand's novel. Though actress Barbara Stanwyck championed the project to Warner Bros., the studio ultimately cast the unknown 22-year-old Neal opposite the 47-year-old Cooper.
An Oscar, Tony and Golden Globe winner, Neal was just as well-known for the trials, tribulations and triumphs she lived through, including a nervous breakdown, the death of one of her children, and a series of strokes that left her in a three-week coma while pregnant at the age of 39. Her subsequent rehabilitation, with the help of her then-husband, author Roald Dahl, led to yet another chapter of her acting career, as well as her pioneering for the cause of stroke rehabilitation.
Born Patsy Louise Neal in Packard, Kentucky in 1926, Neal grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, and studied acting at Northwestern University before heading to New York, where she began her long and illustrious stage career, winning a Tony Award in 1946 for Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest, which attracted the attention of Hollywood. Though she filmed the comedy John Loves Mary first in 1949 -- a film in which she played the Mary to future President Ronald Reagan's John -- it was the second film she made that year which introduced her to audiences with a huge splash: the highly-anticipated adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, where she played conflicted, imperious heroine Dominique Francon opposite Gary Cooper's stalwart architect Howard Roark, already a famed character thanks to the success of Rand's novel. Though actress Barbara Stanwyck championed the project to Warner Bros., the studio ultimately cast the unknown 22-year-old Neal opposite the 47-year-old Cooper.
- 8/9/2010
- IMDb News
Veteran actor Martin Sheen is set to return to the stage for the first time in nearly two decades - in a Los Angeles revival of The Subject Was Roses.
The Frank D. Gilroy drama earned Sheen a 1965 Tony Award nomination after he originated the starring role of Timmy Cleary in the Broadway play, about a soldier whose parents' marital problems surface upon his return from war.
Sheen reprised the part in the 1968 screen adaptation.
Now 69, he will take on the role of John, Timmy’s father, in the new Neil Pepe production, which will open on 21 February and play through 21 March.
The Frank D. Gilroy drama earned Sheen a 1965 Tony Award nomination after he originated the starring role of Timmy Cleary in the Broadway play, about a soldier whose parents' marital problems surface upon his return from war.
Sheen reprised the part in the 1968 screen adaptation.
Now 69, he will take on the role of John, Timmy’s father, in the new Neil Pepe production, which will open on 21 February and play through 21 March.
- 12/23/2009
- WENN
The Pearl Theatre Company is pleased to announce its 2009/2010 Season, produced for the first time at New York City Center Stage II. The season includes the eccentric, spirited comedy The Playboy Of The Western World by J.M. Synge, directed by incoming artistic director J.R. Sullivan; Bernard Shaw's giddy comedy Misalliance; a whirlwind adaptation of Charles Dickens' Hard Times by Stephen Jeffreys; and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy.
- 5/26/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
'Billy Elliot,' Original London Cast, Decca BroadwayAfter a three-year wait, the London hit has reached New York and looks to repeat its effervescent success on Broadway. There will be no local cast recording, as the West End version is considered completely representative. Haydn Gwynne, imported for the New York production, is heard here, but the Billy — one of the initial three — is Liam Mower. The group number "Solidarity" is solid; so is "Expressing Yourself." The common wisdom has it that composer Elton John (Lee Hall is the lyricist) writes better when rocking, but he upends that canard on a bonus CD by turning "Electricity" into a superlative show tune.'The Gig,' Original York Theatre Company Cast, Jay RecordsThe musical comedy gods finally smile on Douglas J. Cohen's adaptation of Frank D. Gilroy's film tribute to male bonding and middle-age crises. This long-overdue recording is another step in establishing the tuner,...
- 12/23/2008
- by David Finkle
- backstage.com
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