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John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplay for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Misfits (1961), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins in different films.
Huston was known to direct with the vision of an artist, having studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years. He continued to explore the visual aspects of his films throughout his career: sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting. In addition, while most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, making his films both more economical and more cerebral, with little editing needed.
Actors: Peter Lohmeyer (actor), Juliane Köhler (actress), Peter Thorwarth (actor), Christoph Heckenbücker (producer), Hans-Maria Darnov (actor), Matthias Seelig (writer), Alfred Kleinheinz (actor), Andreas Treske (editor), Oliver Tataru (actor), Arno Kempf (actor), Pippi Söllner (actress), Gilbert Möhler (actor), Micki Bertling (actor), Christine Szymczak (costume designer), Dmitri Popov (director),
Genres: Short, Thriller,Actors: Travilla (costume designer), Philip Sterling (actor), Garson Kanin (writer), Elmer Bernstein (composer), Vic Tayback (actor), Peter Maloney (actor), Lee Wilkof (actor), John Marley (actor), John Dennis (actor), David L. Wolper (producer), Lloyd Bridges (actor), Norman Fell (actor), Michael Lerner (actor), Stuart Whitman (miscellaneous crew), John Erman (director),
Plot: First of two 1980 TV movies about Marilyn Monroe which this one details her days as an aspiring actress through her love affair with high-powered agent Johnny Hyde to the brink of stardom on the eve of his sudden death.
Keywords: based-on-novelActors: Sheree North (actress), Dalene Young (writer), Viveca Lindfors (actress), Tracey Gold (actress), Norman Mailer (writer), Lawrence Schiller (producer), Lance Rosen (actor), Richard Basehart (actor), Frank Pesce (actor), Michael Fairman (actor), Alex Romero (actor), Catherine Hicks (actress), John Ireland (actor), Jack Arnold (director), William Goldstein (composer),
Plot: The story of how Norma Jean, once an orphan in Hollywood California, becomes Marilyn Monroe, the movie star and celebrity. The movie begins with Norma Jean as a child and ends with the mysterious way she dies. Throughout the movie, we see the highlights and lowlights of her career, including the parts of her private life not widely known.
Keywords: actress, agent, based-on-novel, career, character-name-in-title, fame, hollywood, icon, marriage, orphan