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Executive Suite is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Wise released in USA on 30 april 1954 with William Holden

Executive Suite (1954)

Executive Suite
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Released in USA 30 april 1954
Length 1h44
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating73% 3.6956953.6956953.6956953.6956953.695695

Executive Suite is a 1954 American MGM drama film directed by Robert Wise and written by Ernest Lehman, based on the novel of the same name by Cameron Hawley. The film stars William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters, and Nina Foch. The plot depicts the internal struggle for control of a furniture manufacturing company after the unexpected death of the company's CEO. Executive Suite was nominated for multiple Academy Awards, including for Nina Foch's performance, which earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination.

This was Lehman's first produced screenplay. He would go on to write Sabrina, North By Northwest, West Side Story, and other significant films. The film is one of few in Hollywood history without a musical score, although the song "Singin' in the Rain" is sung by Mike Walling while he is off-camera taking a shower. The song appears in many MGM films during the period when its lyricist Arthur Freed was a producer at the studio.

Synopsis

While in New York City to meet with investment bankers, 56-year-old Avery Bullard, president and driving force of the Tredway Corporation, a major furniture manufacturing company in the town of Millburgh, Pennsylvania, drops dead in the street. As he collapses in the street he drops his wallet which is picked up by a bystander, emptied of its cash, and shoved into a wastebasket. Without the wallet, there's no way to immediately identify the body as Bullard.

Actors

William Holden

(McDonald Walling)
Barbara Stanwyck

(Julia O. Tredway)
Fredric March

(Loren Phineas Shaw)
Walter Pidgeon

(Frederick Y. Alderson)
June Allyson

(Mary Blemond Walling)
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