Delbert Mann
Nacimiento : 1920-01-30, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Muerte : 2007-11-11
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Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty. It was the first Best Picture winner to be based on a television program, being adapted from a 1953 teleplay of the same name which he had also directed. Mann is also the only director other than Billy Wilder and Roman Polanski to win an Oscar for his direction and a Cannes Palme d'Or for the same film. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America.
Mann was born in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, the son of Ora (née Patton), a civic worker and teacher, and Delbert Martin Mann, Sr., a college professor. Mann graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. After school, he served with the U.S. Army Air Corps in WW II, then got discharged after service in the European theater. He then attended Yale Drama School, and graduated, followed by work in theater and eventually, TV and movies. He was married to Ann Caroline Mann from 1941 until his wife's death in 2001. Mann died from pneumonia on November 11, 2007 at a Los Angeles hospital.
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Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth.
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A profile in courage, the film examines the trauma and effort that Senator Edward Kennedy's son went through after losing his leg to a rare form of cancer and with the rehabilitation that was required.
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Based on the true story of Morris Frank and the first U.S. Seeing Eye Dog, Buddy.
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A documentary directed by Hans Beller.
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Julie Harris performs her one-woman show based on the life of Charlotte Brontë.
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A 1982 made-for-television remake of the 1952 Fred Zinnemann film. Shown as a feature on "NBC Live Theater."
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A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
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A young man wishes to adopt a problematical eight-year-old boy being kept in an institution. Simply because he is single, he has an uphill battle with the government bureaucracy, and particularly with a power-hungry administrator. After many delays, they deny his application. Then, he finds a way to turn the tables on them for the boy's own good.
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The wife of a paralytic becomes involved in an extra-marital affair, with his permission.
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The story of Tom and Joann Hammil, a divorced couple who explore new relationships while maintaining their mutual affection a year after their sixteen-year marriage has ended. A sequel to Breaking Up (1978).
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Una adolescente se embarca en una odisea con su abuelo, quien trata de frustrar los planes de su tío de ponerlo en un hogar para ancianos.
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A young advertising executive, blinded in a gun accident, attempts to rebuild his life and career by living through a nightclub entertainer who befriends him.
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The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.
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The curse of the legendary blue Hope Diamond on all its owners is dramatized from the gem's discovery in 17th Century India until its donation to the Smithsonian Institute.
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An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.
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Un hombre que padece amnesia intenta reconstruir su pasado saliendo con distintas mujeres que sospecha que pudieron haber formado parte de su vida anterior.
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Un hombre que padece amnesia intenta reconstruir su pasado saliendo con distintas mujeres que sospecha que pudieron haber formado parte de su vida anterior.
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A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine.
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A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine.
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Evie llega a Nueva York sola y soltera para visitar la convención Postmasters. En su hotel se aloja un mujeriego que acaba de ascender a jefe de 'marketing' de su empresa. Ella se enamora de él, ya que cree que es el hombre de su vida, pero a él solo parece molestarle la presencia de Evie.
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En una base aérea de los Estados Unidos, el oficial al mando no ha conseguido superar una inspección y lo relevan. Su sustituto, el Coronel Cadwell, es un héroe de la guerra de Corea (1950-1953) que carece de experiencia para dirigir una gran unidad en permanente estado de alerta. La necesidad de hacer valer su autoridad le planteará graves problemas de relación con sus compañeros e incluso con su esposa.
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Cathy Timberlake (Doris Day), una chica provinciana y chapada a la antigua, vive en Nueva York y su mayor deseo es enamorarse y crear un hogar feliz. Comparte piso con Connie (Autrey Meadows), otra chica en su misma situación. Un día, mientras Cathy acude a una entrevista de trabajo, un coche le salpica el vestido manchándoselo de barro. Es el Rolls Royce de Philip Shayne (Cary Grant), un atractivo millonario que enseguida muestra interés por ella.
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Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Un indio (Tony Curtis), apodado "jefe" por sus camaradas, formó parte del grupo que plantó la famosa bandera en Iwo Jima.
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Jerry Webster y Carol Templeton se dedican a la publicidad, aunque trabajan para diferentes agencias. Molesta por los métodos empleados por Jerry (alcohol y mujeres) para conseguir los contratos, Carol intenta echarlo de la profesión. Para evitarlo, Jerry camela a la chica que iba a testificar contra él, convirtiéndola en la estrella de un anuncio para televisión, de una importante marca, que acaba de conseguir.
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In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden, and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt.
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An adaptation of Budd Schulberg's incendiary 1941 novel about the rise of an unscrupulous Hollywood producer. The production was divided into two parts and aired on NBC's Sunday Showcase.
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An adaptation of Budd Schulberg's incendiary 1941 novel about the rise of an unscrupulous Hollywood producer. The production was divided into two parts and aired on NBC's Sunday Showcase.
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Jerry Kingsley (March), un hombre viudo y solitario, es el propietario de una fábrica de ropa, en la que trabaja Betty Preisser (Novak), una joven y atractiva divorciada de la que se enamora. Al igual que en "Marty" (1955), su opera prima, Delbert Mann vuelve a tratar el tema de la soledad.
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En un hotel al viejo estilo conviven desde hace tiempo varios huéspedes fijos: un militar retirado, una madre estricta y decadente con su hija, un matrimonio fracasado, un profesor de cultura griega... Viejas historias y nuevos problemas que se hacen carne viva entre los barrocos muros del hotel.
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El hijo (Anthony Perkins) del granjero Eben sólo espera el día en que pueda heredar las tierras de su padre, un tiránico viudo (Burt Ives). Pero cuando éste vuelve a casarse y anuncia que dejará sus posesiones a su nueva esposa, estallan las pasiones más encontradas a lo largo de una noche llena de furia y deseo entre Eben y su nueva madrastra (Sophia Loren).
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Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors. This musicalization of Thornton Wilder's classic play stars Frank Sinatra who introduces the song, "Love and Marriage," which would go on to be immortalized as the theme song to the sitcom Married with Children.
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Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in. A hitch-hiking writer, the disillusioned Alan Squier, appears and revitalizes her dreams of a better place, and finds his own sense of worth refreshed by this vital young girl. When Duke Mantee and his gang, wanted killers, show up and take hostages, Gabrielle falls in love with the poetic Alan, and Squier begins to see a way to give Gabby the life she deserves.
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Marty es un carnicero solterón que todavía vive con su madre. Suele salir con frecuencia con sus amigos por la noche, intentando encontrar a alguna chica con la que compartir su vida y hacer planes para el futuro.
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Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. But at one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.
