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Ernest Lehman is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 8 december 1915 at New York City (USA)
Ernest Lehman (December 8, 1915 in New York City – July 2, 2005 in Los Angeles, California) was an American screenwriter. He received six Academy Award nominations during his career, without a single win. At the 73rd Academy Awards in 2001, he received an Honorary Academy Award for his ingenious and influential works for the screen that has inspired new generations of screenwriters and captivated filmmakers, actors, film critics, and audiences by the beauty of his screenwriting. He was the first screenwriter to receive that honor. The award was presented to him by friend and The Sound of Music star Julie Andrews.
Son premier film, La Tour des ambitieux, réalisé par Robert Wise, est un succès et on lui demande de travailler sur la comédie romantique Sabrina, une réalisation de Billy Wilder qui sera elle aussi bien reçue par les critiques en plus de valoir à Lehman une première nomination aux Oscars. En 1957, il cosigne le scénario du film Le Grand Chantage. Réalisé par Alexander Mackendrick, le film adapte un récit de Lehman, publié en 1950 et partiellement autobiographique.
En 1959, Lehman collabore avec Alfred Hitchcock pour ce qui deviendra un des films les plus célèbres du réalisateur, le drame d'espionnage La Mort aux trousses. Il participe à un autre film important en 1961, alors qu'il retrouve Robert Wise pour l'adaptation cinématographique de la comédie musicale West Side Story.
Il fait partie des rares personnes qui croient en Qui a peur de Virginia Woolf? (1967), persuadant Jack Warner de financer ce film, qui recevra les honneurs des critiques, tout en étant nommé plusieurs fois aux Oscars. Son film suivant, Hello Dolly!, une comédie musicale dirigée par Gene Kelly, est un flop.
En 1972, Lehman réalise son premier (et dernier) film, Portnoy et son complexe. Drame psychologique adapté d'un roman à succès de Philip Roth, le film est plutôt mal reçu. Lehman retrouve Hitchcock en 1975 pour Complot de famille, un suspense humoristique avec lequel Hitchcock conclut sa carrière. Lehman, de son côté, participe à la scénarisation de Black Sunday de John Frankenheimer. On peut considérer qu'il a arrêté d'écrire pour des films en 1979, mis à part quelques projets pour la télévision.
Il a également publié des nouvelles, deux romans et un recueil d'essais.
Il s'est éteint des suites d'une crise cardiaque le 2 juillet 2005.
(1965)
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(1995)
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(1961)
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(1966)
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(1969)
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(1956)
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Nationality USA
Birth 8 december 1915 at New York City (USA)
Death 2 july 2005 (at 89 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Writers Guild of America Award
Birth 8 december 1915 at New York City (USA)
Death 2 july 2005 (at 89 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Writers Guild of America Award
Biography
Ernest Lehman est né dans une famille riche de Long Island, dont la fortune est sérieusement affectée par la Grande Dépression. À la sortie du City College de New York, il devient rédacteur publicitaire dans un théâtre de Broadway. Il rédige ensuite de nombreuses nouvelles et histoires courtes dans des magazines comme Colliers, Redbook et Cosmopolitan, ce qui lui vaut très vite l'attention de Hollywood. C'est ainsi qu'en 1950 il signe avec Paramount Pictures un contrat d'écriture.Son premier film, La Tour des ambitieux, réalisé par Robert Wise, est un succès et on lui demande de travailler sur la comédie romantique Sabrina, une réalisation de Billy Wilder qui sera elle aussi bien reçue par les critiques en plus de valoir à Lehman une première nomination aux Oscars. En 1957, il cosigne le scénario du film Le Grand Chantage. Réalisé par Alexander Mackendrick, le film adapte un récit de Lehman, publié en 1950 et partiellement autobiographique.
En 1959, Lehman collabore avec Alfred Hitchcock pour ce qui deviendra un des films les plus célèbres du réalisateur, le drame d'espionnage La Mort aux trousses. Il participe à un autre film important en 1961, alors qu'il retrouve Robert Wise pour l'adaptation cinématographique de la comédie musicale West Side Story.
Il fait partie des rares personnes qui croient en Qui a peur de Virginia Woolf? (1967), persuadant Jack Warner de financer ce film, qui recevra les honneurs des critiques, tout en étant nommé plusieurs fois aux Oscars. Son film suivant, Hello Dolly!, une comédie musicale dirigée par Gene Kelly, est un flop.
En 1972, Lehman réalise son premier (et dernier) film, Portnoy et son complexe. Drame psychologique adapté d'un roman à succès de Philip Roth, le film est plutôt mal reçu. Lehman retrouve Hitchcock en 1975 pour Complot de famille, un suspense humoristique avec lequel Hitchcock conclut sa carrière. Lehman, de son côté, participe à la scénarisation de Black Sunday de John Frankenheimer. On peut considérer qu'il a arrêté d'écrire pour des films en 1979, mis à part quelques projets pour la télévision.
Il a également publié des nouvelles, deux romans et un recueil d'essais.
Il s'est éteint des suites d'une crise cardiaque le 2 juillet 2005.
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, 40minutesDirected by Peter Fitzgerald
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors Eva Marie Saint, Patricia Hitchcock, Ernest Lehman, Robert F. Boyle, Martin Landau, Alfred Hitchcock
Roles Self
Rating71%
Secrets de tournage du film d'Alfred Hitchcock de 1959 "La Mort aux trousses" ('North by Northwest').
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Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
, 1h41Directed by Ernest Lehman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Jill Clayburgh, Lee Grant, Jeannie Berlin, Kevin Conway
Rating53%
The film focuses on the trials and tribulations of Alexander Portnoy, a Jewish man employed as the assistant commissioner of human opportunity for New York City. During a session with his psychoanalyst, he explores his childhood, his relationship with his overbearing mother, his sexual fantasies and desires, his problems with women, and his obsession with his own religion. Via flashbacks, we learn about his affairs with Bubbles Girardi, the daughter of a local hoodlum; Israeli Naomi; and gentile Mary Jane Reid, whose nickname "Monkey" reflects her remarkable agility at achieving a variety of sexual positions. Mary Jane seemingly is the girl of Portnoy's dreams, but as their relationship deepens and she begins to pressure him into giving her a ring, he shrinks from making a permanent commitment to her.
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Sabrina (1995)
, 2h7Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear, Nancy Marchand, Fanny Ardant, Richard Crenna
Roles Original Film Writer
Rating62%
Sabrina Fairchild is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Thomas, and has been in love with David Larrabee all her life. David is a playboy, constantly falling in love, yet he has never noticed Sabrina, much to her dismay.
Black Sunday (1977)
, 2h23Directed by John Frankenheimer, Marc Monnet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Sports films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, American football films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Bekim Fehmiu, Steven Keats
Rating67%
Michael Lander is a pilot who flies the Goodyear Blimp over National Football League games to film them for network television. Secretly deranged by years of torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, he had a bitter court martial on his return and a failed marriage. He longs to commit suicide and to take with him as many as possible of the cheerful, carefree American civilians he sees from his blimp each weekend.
Family Plot (1976)
, 2hDirected by Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Kazanjian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, William Devane, Cathleen Nesbitt, Ed Lauter
Rating67%
A fake psychic, Blanche Tyler (Barbara Harris), and her boyfriend, George Lumley (Bruce Dern), attempt to locate the nephew of a wealthy and guilt-ridden elderly woman, Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt). Julia's deceased sister gave the baby boy up for adoption, but Julia now wants to make him her heir, and will pay Blanche $10,000 if the heir, Edward Shoebridge, can be found. George Lumley discovers that Shoebridge is thought to be dead, but he tracks down another criminal, Joseph Maloney (Ed Lauter), who paid for the tombstone over an empty grave.
Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
, 1h41Directed by Ernest Lehman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Jill Clayburgh, Lee Grant, Jeannie Berlin, Kevin Conway
Rating53%
The film focuses on the trials and tribulations of Alexander Portnoy, a Jewish man employed as the assistant commissioner of human opportunity for New York City. During a session with his psychoanalyst, he explores his childhood, his relationship with his overbearing mother, his sexual fantasies and desires, his problems with women, and his obsession with his own religion. Via flashbacks, we learn about his affairs with Bubbles Girardi, the daughter of a local hoodlum; Israeli Naomi; and gentile Mary Jane Reid, whose nickname "Monkey" reflects her remarkable agility at achieving a variety of sexual positions. Mary Jane seemingly is the girl of Portnoy's dreams, but as their relationship deepens and she begins to pressure him into giving her a ring, he shrinks from making a permanent commitment to her.
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
, 2h22Directed by Gene Kelly, Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films
Actors Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Edra Jean Peaker, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew, J. Pat O'Malley
Roles Writer
Rating69%
In 1890, all of New York City is excited because widowed, brassy Dolly Levi is in town ("Call On Dolly"). Dolly makes a living through matchmaking and numerous sidelines ("Just Leave Everything to Me"). She is currently seeking a wife for grumpy Horace Vandergelder, the well-known "half-a-millionaire", but it becomes clear that Dolly intends to marry Horace herself. Dolly travels to Yonkers, New York to visit Horace. Ambrose Kemper, a young artist, wants to marry Horace's weepy niece, Ermengarde, but Horace opposes this because Ambrose's vocation does not guarantee a steady living. Horace, who is the owner of Vandergelder's Hay and Feed, explains to his two clerks, Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker, that he is going to get married because "It Takes a Woman" to cheerfully do all the household chores. He plans to travel to New York City to propose to Irene Molloy, who owns a hat shop there. Dolly arrives in Yonkers and sends Horace ahead to the city. Before leaving he tells Cornelius and Barnaby to mind the store.
, 2h11Directed by Mike Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Rating79%
Set on the campus of a small New England college, the film focuses on the volatile relationship of associate history professor George and his hard-drinking wife Martha, the daughter of the college president. George and Martha engage in dangerous emotional games with one another. After they return home drunk from a party, Martha reveals she has invited a young married couple, whom she met at the party, for a drink. The guests arrive – Nick, a biology professor (who Martha thinks teaches math), and his wife, Honey. As the four drink, Martha and George engage in scathing verbal abuse in front of Nick and Honey. The younger couple is first embarrassed and later enmeshed. They stay.
The Sound of Music (1965)
, 2h54Directed by Robert Wise, Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Musical theatre, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films
Actors Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Bill Lee, Bill Lee, Richard Haydn
Rating80%
Maria is a free-spirited young Austrian woman studying to become a nun at Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg in 1938. Her love of music and the mountains, her youthful enthusiasm and imagination, and her lack of discipline cause some concern among the nuns. The Mother Abbess, believing Maria would be happier outside the abbey, sends her to the villa of retired naval officer Captain Georg von Trapp to be governess to his seven children—Liesl, Friedrich, Louisa, Kurt, Brigitta, Marta, and Gretl. The Captain has been raising his children alone using strict military discipline following the death of his first wife. At first, the children treat Maria as they did their former governesses—playing tricks on her as a way of gaining their father's attention. Maria responds with kindness and patience, and soon the children come to trust and respect her.
The Prize (1963)
, 2h14Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Political films
Actors Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Diane Baker, Micheline Presle, Gérard Oury
Roles Auteur
Rating67%
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Andrew Craig (Paul Newman), who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing. When he arrives in Stockholm for the award ceremony, he is delighted to find that the Swedish Foreign Department has sent the beautiful Inger Lisa Andersson (Elke Sommer) as his personal chaperone. When Craig arrives at his hotel, he is introduced to another laureate, Dr. Max Stratman (Edward G. Robinson), a famous German-American physicist, who is accompanied by his niece Emily (Diane Baker).
West Side Story (1961)
, 2h32Directed by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Romeo and Juliet, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Gangster films
Actors Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Marni Nixon, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris
Rating75%
In the West Side's Lincoln Square neighborhood in Manhattan, there is tension between an Anglo gang, the Jets, led by Riff, and a Puerto Rican gang of immigrants, the Sharks, led by Bernardo. After a brawl erupts ("Prologue"), Lieutenant Schrank and Officer Krupke arrive and break it up, warning both gangs to cease fighting or pay. Despite the warning, the Jets decide to challenge the Sharks to a rumble for neighborhood control at an upcoming dance.
From the Terrace (1960)
, 2h29Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Barbara Eden, Ina Balin, Leon Ames
Rating66%
In 1946, David Alfred Eaton returns home from the war to Philadelphia. He finds his mother Martha driven to alcoholism by years of neglect and abuse from her husband Samuel Eaton, owner of a prestigious iron and steel company. Having withdrawn from his family after the death of his firstborn son thirteen years earlier, Samuel's resentment drove Alfred to turn his back on the family business and strike out on his own with his closest friend, Lex.
North by Northwest (1959)
, 2h16Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Rail transport films, Road movies, Chase films, Films about marriage
Actors Cary Grant, Sol Gorss, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll
Roles Writer
Rating82%
Advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for George Kaplan and kidnapped by Valerian (Adam Williams) and Licht (Robert Ellenstein), who take him to the Long Island estate of Lester Townsend. He is interrogated by a man he assumes to be Townsend, but who is actually spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason). Vandamm's "associate" Leonard (Martin Landau) intends to get rid of Thornhill once they finish questioning him.
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
, 1h36Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Martin Milner, Susan Harrison, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols
Roles Novel
Rating79%
Manhattan press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) has been unable to gain mentions for his in J.J. Hunsecker's (Burt Lancaster) influential, nationally syndicated newspaper column of late because of Falco's failure to make good on a promise to break up the romance between Hunsecker's younger sister Susan (Susan Harrison) and musician Steve Dallas (Martin Milner), an up-and-coming jazz guitarist.
The King and I (1956)
, 2h19Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films, Films about language and translation, Films about royalty
Actors Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Maureen Hingert, Martin Benson, Alan Mowbray
Rating73%
Strong-willed, widowed schoolteacher Anna Leonowens arrives in Bangkok from Wales with her young son Louis after being summoned to tutor the many children of King Mongkut. The two are introduced to the Kralahome, King Mongkut's confidante and Siam's prime minister. His severe countenance makes Louis apprehensive, but Anna refuses to be intimidated and convinces him to disguise his fear ("I Whistle a Happy Tune"). The Kralahome explains he has come to escort them to the Royal Palace where they will live – a violation of Anna's contract, which calls for them to live in a separate house outside the walls of the palace. Despite her threat to return to Singapore, Anna reluctantly disembarks with Louis and the Kralahome.