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    Isadore "Dore" Schary (August 31, 1905 – July 7, 1980) was an American playwright, director, and producer for the stage and a prolific screenwriter and...
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    movie about the Battle of the Bulge produced by MGM's new studio head Dore Schary. Johnson made the comedy The Big Hangover (1950), then was reunited with...
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  • Schary is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dore Schary (1905–1980), American playwright, director, producer and screenwriter Hope Skillman...
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  • and writer Dore Schary based on U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's struggle with polio. The film version was released in 1960. Schary obtained the...
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  • a 1944 American drama film made by Selznick International Pictures, Dore Schary Productions, and Vanguard Pictures, and distributed by United Artists...
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  • Act One is a 1963 American film written and directed by Dore Schary, and starring George Hamilton. It is the film version of the 1959 autobiographical...
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  • 1954. p. B8. Schary p 283 Schnee, Charles (11 July 1954). "FITTING FOR A FABULOUS 'PRODIGAL'". The New York Times. p. X5. Schary, Dore (1979). Heyday...
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  • French Dominican theologian Dore Gold (born 1953), Israeli diplomat Dore Schary (1905–1980), American writer and director Dore (film) or The Ruler, a 1995...
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  • Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, and Gene Reynolds. The film was written by Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin, and John Meehan, and was directed by Norman Taurog...
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  • You was taken from this song at the suggestion of the film's producer, Dore Schary. The song is included in the film's soundtrack. A resemblance between...
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    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production head Dore Schary, who was known for championing films that addressed social problems. Schary had previously produced Go for...
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  • Sargeant J.B. Welch as Charlie Mary Alan Hokanson as Edna The film was Dore Schary's first film as an independent producer after leaving MGM. Nathanael West's...
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  • Dance (1956), Freed hired André Previn as the film composer. However, Dore Schary, MGM's studio president, refused to hire either Sinatra or Munshin. By...
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  • was stricken with paralysis at the age of 39 in August 1921. Based on Dore Schary's 1958 Tony Award-winning Broadway play of the same name, the film was...
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    and later portraying the Hollywood producer Dore Schary in episode 119, "Don Juan is Shelved" when Schary decided at the last minute not to play himself...
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    son of novelist Jill Schary Robinson and stockbroker Jon Zimmer, and the grandson of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio chief Dore Schary. His family was Jewish...
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  • 1951 black-and-white war film directed by Robert Pirosh, produced by Dore Schary and starring Van Johnson and six veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat...
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    producer Dore Schary. McGuire and Young made a third film together, Claudia and David (1946), a sequel to Claudia, which was less well received. Schary and...
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    golden age of Hollywood. Schary Robinson was born in Los Angeles on May 30, 1936, to a Jewish family, the daughter of Dore Schary, the Oscar and Tony Award-winning...
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  • screenrights in May 1955 as a vehicle for Kelly. Head of production Dore Schary also announced he intended to remake The Barretts of Wimpole Street with...
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    (1948). The latter film was directed by Joseph Losey and produced by Dore Schary, who was head of production at RKO. MGM borrowed him to make Act of Violence...
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    Los Angeles Times, Holt's casting in Madre impressed RKO studio chief Dore Schary who announced "expanding plans" for the actor, looking to cast him in...
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    Student Prince, he embarked upon a protracted battle with studio head Dore Schary arising from artistic differences with director Curtis Bernhardt, and...
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  • by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Clarence Brown, and produced by Dore Schary. The screenplay was adapted by Helen Deutsch from the 1950 novel The...
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    shelved when production head Dore Schary resigned, despite $100,000 having been put into the property to that point. When Schary went to MGM, he purchased...
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  • International Pictures. The company's president was Daniel T. O'Shea; Dore Schary was the head of production. The company was liquidated in 1951. After...
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    won the Princess Grace Award, the Kodak Student Filmmaker Award, the Dore Schary Award presented by the Anti-Defamation League, the Jack Nicholson directing...
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  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and chose not to sign a new contract under the new studio head Dore Schary who replaced Louis B. Mayer who was fired in 1951. In recognition of...
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    and Sherwood in the roles that they subsequently played in the film. Dore Schary was head of MGM. He saw the play and authorized the purchase of the film...
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  • a stab at it. Capra gave him his blessing, and Wellman pitched it to Dore Schary at MGM, who gave him the go-ahead and liked the concept so much that...
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