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Julius J. Epstein is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Additional Dialogue American born on 22 august 1909 at New York City (USA)
Julius J. Epstein (né le 22 août 1909 à New York dans le Lower East Side, et mort le 30 décembre 2000 à Los Angeles) est un scénariste américain, qui a eu une longue carrière, marquée par l'adaptation, avec son frère jumeau Philip G. Epstein er d'autres scénaristes, de la pièce Everybody Comes to Rick's pour écrire le scénario du film Casablanca en 1942. Lui et ses collaborateurs reçurent un Oscar pour ce scénario. Après la mort de son frère en 1952, il continua d'écrire, remportant deux nominations de plus à l'Oscar, et, en 1998, un prix de fin de carrière du Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Il signa notamment les scénarios de : Rêves de jeunesse (1938), Fiancée contre remboursement (1941), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), M.. Skeffington (1944), Le Tendre Piège (The Tender Trap) de Charles Walters (1955), Lumière sur la piazza (1962), Ne m'envoyez pas de fleurs (1964), Pete 'n' Tillie (1972) et Reuben, Reuben (1983).
Jack Warner, dirigeant de Warner Brothers, eut une relation tumultueuse avec le duo de scénaristes. Il déplora leurs farces, leurs habitudes de travail et les horaires qu'ils avaient. En 1952, Warner donna les noms des frères Epstein au House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Sur un questionnaire de l'HUAC, quand on leur demanda s'ils étaient membres d'une "organisation subversive", ils écrivirent : "Oui. Warner Brothers."
Epstein est l'oncle de Leslie Epstein , directeur de le programme d'écriture créative à l'Université de Boston et romancier réputé, et le grand-oncle de Theo Epstein, le président des Cubs de Chicago de la Ligue majeure de baseball.
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Julius J. Epstein
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Nationality USA
Birth 22 august 1909 at New York City (USA)
Death 30 december 2000 (at 91 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Writers Guild of America Award
Birth 22 august 1909 at New York City (USA)
Death 30 december 2000 (at 91 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Writers Guild of America Award
Biography
Epstein sortit de l'Université d'État de Pennsylvanie en 1931, avec un diplôme en Arts et Lettres. Lui et son frère étaient des boxeurs.Jack Warner, dirigeant de Warner Brothers, eut une relation tumultueuse avec le duo de scénaristes. Il déplora leurs farces, leurs habitudes de travail et les horaires qu'ils avaient. En 1952, Warner donna les noms des frères Epstein au House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Sur un questionnaire de l'HUAC, quand on leur demanda s'ils étaient membres d'une "organisation subversive", ils écrivirent : "Oui. Warner Brothers."
Epstein est l'oncle de Leslie Epstein , directeur de le programme d'écriture créative à l'Université de Boston et romancier réputé, et le grand-oncle de Theo Epstein, le président des Cubs de Chicago de la Ligue majeure de baseball.
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Filmography of Julius J. Epstein (58 films)
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Light in the Piazza (1962)
, 1h42Directed by Julius J. Epstein, Arthur Freed, Guy Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Barry Sullivan, Isabel Dean
Rating68%
While taking a summer holiday in Florence with her mother Meg, 26-year-old Clara meets and falls in love with a young Italian named Fabrizio Naccarelli, played by George Hamilton. Fabrizio is blinded by his love for Clara and believes her mental disability to be simple naivety. Meg tries to explain her daughter's condition to Fabrizio's father but the opportunity never seems to be right. Fabrizio's family are taken with Clara and her simple remarks are taken as evidence of her innocence.
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Reuben, Reuben (1983)
, 1h41Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about suicide, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis, Roberts Blossom, Joel Fabiani, Cynthia Harris, Lois Smith
Rating67%
Gowan McGland (Tom Conti) is a creatively blocked Scottish poet who ekes out a day-to-day existence by exploiting the generosity of strangers in an affluent Connecticut suburb, where he recites his verse to various arts groups and women's clubs. Gowan is something of a leech, cadging expensive dinners from well-off patrons (usually stealing the tips afterward) while seducing their bored wives and affecting a superior attitude toward the smug bourgeois types he exploits.
House Calls (1978)
, 1h38Directed by Howard Zieff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney, Richard Benjamin, Dick O'Neill, Candice Azzara
Roles Story
Rating65%
Charles Nichols is a respected doctor. He is also a new widower, and as soon as he returns to Los Angeles from a tropical vacation and period of mourning, he finds himself propositioned by a number of women.
The Pirate (1978)
, 4hDirected by Ken Annakin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Franco Nero, Anne Archer, Olivia Hussey, Ian McShane, Christopher Lee, Michael Constantine
Roles Writer
Rating60%
Cross of Iron (1977)
, 2h13Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Senta Berger, Klaus Löwitsch
Roles Auteur
Rating73%
The movie opens with German children's song "Hänschen klein" mixed with black-and-white footage of prewar and war scenes. It then segues to color and a German platoon raid on a Russian forward outpost led by Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn), during which his men capture a young Russian boy-soldier (Slavko Štimac).
Once Is Not Enough (1975)
, 2h1Directed by Guy Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri, Gary Conway
Roles Writer
Rating46%
In the film version, Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) is a middle-aged motion-picture producer whose career has fallen on hard times. Try as he might, Mike no longer can get a new Hollywood project made.
Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
, 1h40Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson, René Auberjonois, Lee Montgomery
Roles Writer
Rating61%
Pete Seltzer (Matthau) is introduced to Tillie Schlaine (Burnett) at a party. Her friends Gertrude and Bert are the hosts and attempting to fix her up.
Any Wednesday (1966)
, 1h49Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Dean Jones, Rosemary Murphy, Ann Prentiss, Paula Prentiss
Rating59%
John Cleves (Jason Robards) is a businessman with an office in New York and a home in New Jersey. On one day of each week, Wednesday, he spends the night in the city, lying to wife Dorothy (Rosemary Murphy) that he is out of town on business when he actually is seeing Ellen, his mistress (Jane Fonda).
Return from the Ashes (1965)
, 1h45Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Maximilian Schell, Ingrid Thulin, Samantha Eggar, Herbert Lom, Talitha Getty, Vladek Sheybal
Rating69%
Shortly before the Nazi invasion of France, Dr. Michele Wulf (Thulin) encounters the younger Stanislaus Pilgrin (Schell) over a game of lightning chess, not being aware that Pilgrin is a chess master. She becomes intrigued with the fortune-hunting Pilgrin and the two begin a liaison. Upon the Nazi invasion, in order to protect Michele, who is Jewish, Stan marries her, to no avail it turns out when the Gestapo arrests her and sends her to a concentration camp.
Send Me No Flowers (1964)
, 1h40Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Clint Walker, Patricia Barry, Paul Lynde
Rating68%
George Kimball (Rock Hudson), a hypochondriac, lives with his wife Judy (Doris Day) in the suburbs. Judy learns from the milkman that their neighbors, the Bullards, are getting a divorce, and shares the news with George.
Light in the Piazza (1962)
, 1h42Directed by Julius J. Epstein, Arthur Freed, Guy Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Barry Sullivan, Isabel Dean
Rating68%
While taking a summer holiday in Florence with her mother Meg, 26-year-old Clara meets and falls in love with a young Italian named Fabrizio Naccarelli, played by George Hamilton. Fabrizio is blinded by his love for Clara and believes her mental disability to be simple naivety. Meg tries to explain her daughter's condition to Fabrizio's father but the opportunity never seems to be right. Fabrizio's family are taken with Clara and her simple remarks are taken as evidence of her innocence.
Fanny (1961)
, 2h14Directed by Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes La provence, Films based on plays
Actors Leslie Caron, Horst Buchholz, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Georgette Anys, Lionel Jeffries
Roles Ecrivain
Rating67%
César (Charles Boyer) is a barkeeper in Marseille in the early 1920s. His 19-year-old son Marius (Horst Buchholz) works for him at his bar, but wants nothing more than to go to sea and leave his boring existence behind. The only thing holding him back is Fanny (Leslie Caron), an 18-year-old girl with whom he grew up. Fanny works selling fish with her mother down at the waterfront. Fanny has been in love with Marius her whole life, and flirts with him, but Marius always rejects her.
Tall Story (1960)
, 1h28Directed by Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Sports films, Théâtre, Basketball films, Films based on plays
Actors Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston, Anne Jackson, Murray Hamilton, Robert Redford
Rating58%
At Custer University, Ray Blent (Anthony Perkins) is an honor student and college basketball star. June Ryder (Jane Fonda) has come to the university to study home economics and to find a husband. Both students and faculty are scandalized by Ryder's unashamed pursuit of Blent. She joins the pom-pom girls and attends all the classes taken by Blent to ensure she has maximum contact with him. Everyone is aware of her designs on the sexually naive Blent, except for him. She succeeds in convincing him that she has an intelligent, inquiring mind that he admires, although this is all done through deception. She eventually gets Blent to fall for her and propose marriage. However, they need several thousand dollars to set up a home.
Take a Giant Step (1959)
, 1h40Directed by Philip Leacock
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee, Beah Richards, Frederick O'Neal, Ellen Holly, Paulene Myers
Rating68%
Spencer "Spence" Scott (Johnny Nash) is a 17-year-old black high school senior who has lived his entire life in a middle-class white neighborhood of an unnamed city in the northern United States. Having been raised with a sense of self-respect, he is starting to become frustrated by the effects of racism. When his history teacher speaks ill of the intellect of black slaves during the American Civil War, he objects, and when the teacher dismisses the objection, he storms angrily out of the classroom and slips to into the bathroom to calm down by smoking a cigar. He is discovered there and is suspended from school. At the same time, his white friends are beginning to exclude him from their activities because they want to include girls, and none of the girls' parents approve of their daughters socializing in circles that include a black boy.
The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
, 1h35Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon, Sandra Dee, Diane Clare, Angela Lansbury
Rating66%
When 17-year-old Jane Broadbent (Sandra Dee) comes to London to live with her wealthy father Jimmy Broadbent (Rex Harrison), her stepmother Sheila (Kay Kendall) feels compelled by her social aspirations to introduce her to society. Jane is bored by the debutante balls she attends and the young men she is introduced to, but becomes interested in a drummer named David Parkson (John Saxon), who has a reputation for leading young women astray. To complicate matters, David Fenner (Peter Myers) relentlessly pursues Jane, even though she openly detests him.