Norman Corwin

Filmes

Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
Self
In 1935, 17-year-old aspiring actress Marsha Hunt was discovered in Hollywood. She signed with Paramount Pictures and went on to a flourishing career at MGM. She made 54 films in 17 years before a series of unfortunate events led to her being unfairly blacklisted. After the blacklist, she championed humanitarian causes, forging a career as one of Hollywood's first celebrity activists. She was the FIRST Angelina Jolie. As far back as 1955, Eleanor Roosevelt was a mentor of hers as they both worked tirelessly to support the work that the United Nations Association was accomplishing in this country. At age 96, Marsha continues to fight for causes she believes in. This film is a call to action for activists of all ages.
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Pioneer Radio Producer (archive footage)
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
Self
A documentary about one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 1950s and 1960s. Charles Beaumont was responsible for penning some of the most memorable Twilight Zone episodes before his untimely death at age 38.
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
On May 8th, 1945, writer, director Norman Corwin broadcast ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, an unforgettable homage to the end of war in Europe. This film shines a light on a lost work of genius, and examines it's haunting resonance to today's current events.
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
Self
Music For The Movies: Bernard Herrmann explores the work of a composer who created music for over 50 films, collaborating with such diverse directors as Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray, and Martin Scorsese. Best remembered for his twelve-year collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock in such classics as Vertigo, North By Northwest ,and the unforgettable Psycho, Herrmann pioneered many fundamental techniques of film scoring in the course of his 35-year career.
Sametka
Story
A boy has a velvetbean caterpillar as a pet. He teaches it to dance and it becomes a world sensation.
Madison Avenue
Screenplay
An adman (Dana Andrews) and an adwoman (Eleanor Parker) put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.
A História de Rute
Writer
Ruth foi vendida quando criança a um grupo pagão e idolatrada como uma sacerdotisa. Ao crescer, conhece o hebreu Mahlon e é tocada por sua crença, mas o destino a obriga a embarcar em uma árdua jornada rumo a Jerusalém.
A Maja Desnuda
Screenplay
A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba
Sede de Viver
Screenplay
O filme retrata fielmente a vida do mestre da pintura: Van Gogh. Dividido entre a genialidade e sua mente atormentada, Van Gogh é interpretado pelo aclamado ator Kirk Douglas. Sede de Viver captura todo o êxtase da arte e a agonia da vida de um gênio da pintura.
O Marido da Mamãe
Writer
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no children and she immediately decides to adopt the girl. The only condition imposed on them is that as Patsy has been baptized a Roman Catholic the Protestant McChesneys agree to raise her as a Catholic. Patsy is a well-behaved little girl whose only real problem is a school bully, also one of the orphans, who spreads stories that she set their orphanage on fire.
The Blue Veil
Writer
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
O Eterno Pretendente
Story
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.
Forever and a Day
Writer
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.