"Bell, Book and Candle Bell, Book and Candle is a 1958 American Technicolor romantic comedy film directed by Richard Quine, based on the successful Broadway play by John Van Druten and adapted by Daniel Taradash. It stars Kim Novak as a witch who casts a spell on her neighbor, played by James Stewart. Rounding out the supporting cast are Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold and Elsa Lanchester. The film is considered Stewart's last as a romantic lead. During the Christmas holiday season, Greenwich Village witch Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak), a free spirit with a penchant for going barefoot, is"
"Eliot Elisofon who was the color consultant on the film. There were favorable write-ups in other major magazines and a production number on ""The Steve Allen Show"" featured the theme music. On November 11, 1958, the movie made its world premiere in Los Angeles at the Warner Beverly Theatre. It played an exclusive engagement there until its New York premiere on December 25. ""Bell, Book and Candle"" received Academy Award nominations in two categories: Best Art Direction (Cary Odell and Louis Diage); and Best Costume Design (Jean Louis). It also received a Golden Globes nomination for Best Motion Picture –"
"Pictures. Kovacs and Cohn later became friends despite the way they had first met, with Cohn giving Kovacs roles in ""Bell, Book and Candle"" (1958) and ""It Happened to Jane"" (1959). He garnered critical acclaim for movie roles such as the perennially inebriated writer in ""Bell, Book and Candle"" and as the cartoonishly evil head of a railroad company (who resembled Orson Welles' title character in ""Citizen Kane"") in ""It Happened to Jane"", where he had his head shaved and his remaining hair dyed grey for the role. In 1960, he played the base commander Charlie Stark in the comedy"
"and film director Martin Scorsese called it ""extraordinary,"" adding that Novak's work was ""so brave and emotionally immediate."" However, Novak was disappointed by her performance when she watched the film in 2013. ""I was really disappointed. Both characters were exaggerated. They'll always remember me in ""Vertigo"", and I'm not that good in it, but I don't blame me because there are a couple of scenes where I was wonderful."" Novak again worked with Stewart in Richard Quine's ""Bell, Book and Candle"" (also 1958), a comedy tale of modern-day witchcraft, that proved to be a box-office success. She starred opposite Fredric"
"Richard Quine Richard Quine (November 12, 1920 – June 10, 1989) was an American stage, film, and radio actor and, later, a film director. He began acting as a child in radio, vaudeville, and stage productions before being signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in his early twenties. When his acting career began to wane after World War II, Quine began working as a film director. He later moved into producing and directing television. Quine directed several well-known films, including ""Bell Book and Candle"" (1958), ""The World of Suzie Wong"" (1960), ""Paris When It Sizzles"" (1964), ""How to Murder Your Wife"" (1965), and"
"Billy Budd (film) Billy Budd is a 1962 CinemaScope film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov. Adapted from the stage play version of Herman Melville's short novel ""Billy Budd"", it starred Terence Stamp as Billy Budd, Robert Ryan as John Claggart, and Ustinov as Captain Vere. In his film debut, Stamp was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and received a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Male Newcomer. The film was nominated for four BAFTAs. In the year 1797, the British naval vessel HMS ""Avenger"" presses into service a crewman ""according to the Rights of"
"opposite James Stewart and Jack Lemmon in the romantic comedy ""Bell, Book and Candle"" (1958), but she had to turn it down because she was pregnant. Thereafter, Fox attempted to cast Mansfield opposite Paul Newman in ""Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!"" (1958), his ill-fated first attempt at comedy. With decreased demand for big-breasted, blonde bombshells, and an increasing negative backlash against her excessive publicity, Mansfield became a box-office has-been by the early 1960s, but she remained a popular celebrity, continuing to attract large crowds outside the United States by way of lucrative and successful nightclub acts. Despite the publicity and"
"Pal Trigger"", once more with Rogers and Hayes, but this time also starring Trigger and Dale Evans; the Bob Hope and Jane Russell comedy, ""The Paleface"" (1948); Cecil B. DeMille's epic, ""Samson and Delilah"" (1949); ""The Gunfighter"" (1950), starring Gregory Peck; ""Winchester '73"", starring Jimmy Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, and Stephen McNally; ""The Far Country"", again with Stewart, this time also starring Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, and Walter Brennan; and once again in a Stewart film, the classic 1959 romantic comedy, ""Bell, Book and Candle"", also starring Kim Novak. In addition to his acting, he also became involved as"
"for expressive use in still photography""; in 1951, while photographing the film ""African Queen"", he ""shared his theories on color photography"" with director John Huston, who subsequently hired him as the color consultant on Huston's next film, ""Moulin Rouge"", in 1952. Elisofon also worked as a color consultant in the 1958 film ""Bell, Book and Candle"", starring Kim Novak, James Stewart, Hermione Gingold, Jack Lemmon, and Ernie Kovaks, and the 1965 film ""The Greatest Story Ever Told"", by director George Stevens. Over the years, Elisofon travelled to six continents, covering an estimated 2,000,000 miles. His work appeared in ""Life"" magazine"
"Man on Fire (1957 film) Man on Fire is a 1957 film starring Bing Crosby in a rare non-singing, unsympathetic role. Two years after her divorce from wealthy businessman Earl Carleton, ex-wife Gwen wants to regain partial custody of their son, Ted, who is devoted to his father. Earl has never gotten over losing her after introducing her to the man she left him for. Gwen's new husband Bryan Seward is a sharp attorney who works for the State Department. Using his skill and pull, he gets the custody hearing from the divorce re-opened, stating she signed the custody agreement"
"still basically not an actor, but no longer a joke as a screen personality. Given the full, virile build-up, he plays the half-breed with a brooding presence that is surprisingly effective."" Flaming Star Flaming Star is a 1960 American Western film starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden, based on the book ""Flaming Lance"" (1958) by Clair Huffaker. Critics agreed that Presley gave one of his best acting performances as the mixed-blood ""Pacer Burton"", a dramatic role. The film was directed by Don Siegel and had a working title of ""Black Star"". The movie reached No. 12 on the box office"
"Edward Burns Edward Fitzgerald Burns (born January 29, 1968) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director best known for appearing in several films including ""Saving Private Ryan"" (1998), ""15 Minutes"" (2001), ""Life or Something Like It"" (2002), ""Confidence"" (2003), ""A Sound of Thunder"" (2005), ""The Holiday"" (2006), ""One Missed Call"" (2008), ""27 Dresses"" (2008), ""Man on a Ledge"" (2012), ""Friends with Kids"" (2012), and ""Alex Cross"" (2012). Burns directed movies such as ""The Brothers McMullen"" (1995), ""She's the One"" (1996), ""Sidewalks of New York"" (2001), ""Purple Violets"" (2007), and ""The Fitzgerald Family Christmas"" (2012). He also starred as Bugsy"
"Blind Spot (1958 film) Blind Spot is a 1958 British drama film directed by Peter Maxwell and starring Robert MacKenzie, Delphi Lawrence, Gordon Jackson, John Le Mesurier and Michael Caine in an early screen appearance. Laid up in a military hospital waiting for an operation, U.S. Army Captain Dan Adams (Robert MacKenzie), has lost his sight due to a head injury. While his doctors are waiting for his injury to heal before proceeding, Adams is driven off the base to a party but is dropped off at the wrong address. Entering the house, he stumbles over a body and startles"
"The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959 film) The World, the Flesh and the Devil is a 1959 American science fiction doomsday film written and directed by Ranald MacDougall. The film stars Harry Belafonte, who was then at the peak of his film career. The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world with very few human survivors. It is based on two sources: the novel ""The Purple Cloud"" by M. P. Shiel and the story ""End of the World"" by Ferdinand Reyher. African-American coal mine inspector Ralph Burton (Harry Belafonte) becomes trapped underground in a cave-in while inspecting a"
"would combine to make the wind unpredictable. This is said to have given rise to the phrase ""23 skidoo"", from what policemen would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women's dresses being blown up by the winds swirling around the building due to the strong downdrafts. In the 1958 comedy film ""Bell, Book and Candle"", James Stewart and Kim Novak were filmed on top of the Flatiron Building in a romantic clinch, and for Warren Beatty's 1980 film ""Reds"", the base of the building was used for a scene with Diane Keaton. Today, the Flatiron Building is"
"Edwards directed. By now Quine was established as one of Columbia's leading directors. His films included ""The Solid Gold Cadillac"" (1956) and ""Full of Life"" (1956) with Judy Holliday; ""Operation Mad Ball"" (1957) with Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs, with Blake Edwards helping write the script; ""Bell Book and Candle"" (1958) with James Stewart, Novak, Kovacs and Lemmon;. Quine set up his own production company though he still financed through Columbia. He made ""It Happened to Jane"" (1959) with Doris Day and Lemmon, and ""Strangers When We Meet"" (1960) with Kirk Douglas and Novak. Ray Stark hired him at the"
"The Old Man and the Sea (1958 film) The Old Man and the Sea is a 1958 American adventure drama film directed by John Sturges, who replaced the original uncredited director Fred Zinnemann. The screenplay by Peter Viertel was based on the novella of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film stars Spencer Tracy. Dimitri Tiomkin won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the film. James Wong Howe was also nominated for best color cinematography. The same year, Tracy was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The Old Man in the film"
"Blood and Steel (film) Blood and Steel is a 1959 American drama film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and written by Joseph C. Gilette. The film stars John Lupton, James Edwards, Brett Halsey, John Brinkley, Allen Jung and Ziva Rodann. The film was released in December 30, 1959, by 20th Century Fox. It was also known as Condemened Patrol. The movie title can be seen in a 1958 Felix the Cat cartoon (The Hairy Berry Bush, ep. 55) at about the 1:35 mark, where Rock Bottom is reading a newspaper, which apparently, was a snippit of the actual newsprint inserted"
"Hot Spell (film) Hot Spell is a 1958 American drama film directed by Daniel Mann, starring Shirley Booth and Anthony Quinn, and released by Paramount Pictures. Alma Duval is a Louisiana housewife planning a 45th birthday family celebration for her husband John Henry, known to all as Jack, who is carrying on with a much younger woman behind her back. During the birthday dinner, Jack picks an argument with eldest son, Buddy, daring him to show some backbone. After the dinner breaks up, he takes teenaged son, Billy, out to play pool and drink beer, trying to demonstrate to him"
"the film earned $585,000 in the US and Canada and $500,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $1,442,000. The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959 film) The World, the Flesh and the Devil is a 1959 American science fiction doomsday film written and directed by Ranald MacDougall. The film stars Harry Belafonte, who was then at the peak of his film career. The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world with very few human survivors. It is based on two sources: the novel ""The Purple Cloud"" by M. P. Shiel and the story ""End of the World"" by Ferdinand"
"Buck Henry Henry Zuckerman, credited as Buck Henry (born December 9, 1930), is an American actor, writer, film director, and television director. He has been nominated for an Academy Award twice, in 1968 for Best Adapted Screenplay for ""The Graduate"" and in 1979 for Best Director for ""Heaven Can Wait"". Henry was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of silent film actress and star of the original ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"", Ruth Taylor (January 13, 1905 – April 12, 1984) and Paul Steinberg Zuckerman (April 15, 1899 – 1965), a retired Air Force brigadier general and"
"Law and Disorder (1958 film) Law and Disorder is a 1958 British comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Michael Redgrave, Robert Morley, Joan Hickson, Lionel Jeffries. It was based on the 1954 novel ""Smugglers' Circuit"" by Denys Roberts. The film was started by director Henry Cornelius who died whilst making the film. He was replaced by Charles Crichton. Percy Brand is a crook, a veteran of various cons and schemes. Unfortunately, he is regularly sent to prison by judge Sir Edward Crichton. That does not bother Percy too much, but what does concern him is that his son,"
"it."" The Old Man and the Sea (1958 film) The Old Man and the Sea is a 1958 American adventure drama film directed by John Sturges, who replaced the original uncredited director Fred Zinnemann. The screenplay by Peter Viertel was based on the novella of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film stars Spencer Tracy. Dimitri Tiomkin won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the film. James Wong Howe was also nominated for best color cinematography. The same year, Tracy was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The Old Man in the"
"are willing to do anything, even kill, to get it. Alan Ladd was originally announced to play the lead. Then Victor Mature was going to play it. The Man Inside (1958 film) The Man Inside is a 1958 British crime adventure film brought to the screen by Warwick Film Productions. The screenplay from David Shaw was based on a novel by M. E. Chaber and was directed by John Gilling. The film was Bonar Colleano's last role before he died in a car accident. Sam Carter (Nigel Patrick) is a jeweller's clerk who dreams of stealing a fortune in diamonds"
"The Bravados The Bravados is a 1958 American western film (color by DeLuxe) directed by Henry King, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Collins. The CinemaScope film was based on a novel of the same name, written by Frank O'Rourke. Jim Douglas (Gregory Peck) is a rancher pursuing four outlaws he is convinced are guilty of murdering his wife six months before. He rides into Rio Arriba, where these four men, Alfonso Parral (Lee Van Cleef), Bill Zachary (Stephen Boyd), Ed Taylor (Albert Salmi) and Lujan (Henry Silva), are in jail awaiting execution, by hanging, for an unrelated murder. Sheriff Eloy"
"Jim Dale Jim Dale, (born James Smith; 15 August 1935) is an English actor, narrator, singer, director, and composer. In the United Kingdom, he is best known as a pop singer of the 1960s who became a leading actor at the National Theatre. In the British film world, he became one of the regulars in the ""Carry On series"". In the United States, he is most recognised as a leading actor on Broadway, where he had roles in ""Scapino"", ""Barnum"", ""Candide"" and ""Me and My Girl"", as well as for narrating all seven of the ""Harry Potter"" audiobooks in the"
"between 1957 and 1965. He once scored to knock Fulham, then in the First Division, out of the FA Cup. Frank Harper Frank Harper (born 12 December 1962) is an English actor and film producer. He is best known for his ""hard man"" roles, such as ""Billy Bright"" in ""The Football Factory"" (2004) and ""Dog"" in ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"" (1998). Frank Harper had an early interest in acting and appeared in a play based around football supporters, at the Albany Theatre in Deptford, while he was still at school. He appeared as a white nationalist in ""South"
"over a film that had such fine production values and potential to be a great one."" Albert Salmi won the National Board of Review NBR Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1958. The Bravados The Bravados is a 1958 American western film (color by DeLuxe) directed by Henry King, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Collins. The CinemaScope film was based on a novel of the same name, written by Frank O'Rourke. Jim Douglas (Gregory Peck) is a rancher pursuing four outlaws he is convinced are guilty of murdering his wife six months before. He rides into Rio Arriba, where these"
"Ranald MacDougall Ranald MacDougall (March 10, 1915 – December 12, 1973) was an American screenwriter who scripted such films as ""Mildred Pierce"" (1945), ""The Unsuspected"" (1947), ""June Bride"" (1948), and ""The Naked Jungle"" (1954), and shared screenwriting credit for 1963's ""Cleopatra"". He also directed a number of films, including 1957's ""Man on Fire"" with Bing Crosby and 1959's ""The World, the Flesh and the Devil"", both of which featured actress Inger Stevens. Born in Schenectady, New York, MacDougall came from an impoverished working-class family. His father was a crane operator and union organizer, whose frequent strikes forced MacDougall to leave"
"The historical drama was Ford's final Western and Stewart's last feature film with Ford. Stewart's entertainingly memorable middle sequence is not directly connected with the rest of the film and was often excised from the lengthy film in later theatrical exhibition prints and some television broadcasts. Having played his last romantic lead in ""Bell, Book and Candle"" (1958), with Kim Novak, and silver-haired (although not all was his—he wore a partial hairpiece starting with ""It's a Wonderful Life"" and in every film thereafter), Stewart transitioned into more family-related films in the 1960s when he signed a multi-movie deal with 20th"
"to him safely anyway, saving the day, and it's clear that Chuck and Mandy are now in love. The Hot Angel The Hot Angel is a 1958 American drama film directed by Joe Parker and written by Stanley Kallis. The film stars Jackie Loughery, Ed Kemmer, Mason Alan Dinehart, Emory Parnell, Lyle Talbot and Boyd Santell. The film was released on December 1958, by Paramount Pictures. Mandy Wilson runs a small air strip near the Grand Canyon. She and brother Joe are glad to see pilot Chuck Lawson, who hasn't been here in five years. Their brother Tom heroically saved"
"William Holden William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor who was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s and 1960s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film ""Stalag 17"" (1953), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for the television film ""The Blue Knight"" (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including ""Sunset Boulevard"", ""Sabrina"", ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"", ""The Wild Bunch"", ""Picnic"" and ""Network"". He was"
"Harry Morgan Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor and director whose television and film career spanned six decades. Morgan's major roles included Pete Porter in both ""December Bride"" (1954–1959) and ""Pete and Gladys"" (1960–1962); Officer Bill Gannon on ""Dragnet"" (1967–1970); Amos Coogan on ""Hec Ramsey"" (1972–1974); and his starring role as Colonel Sherman T. Potter in ""M*A*S*H"" (1975–1983) and ""AfterMASH"" (1983–1984). Morgan appeared in more than 100 films. Morgan was born Harry Bratsberg in Detroit, the son of Hannah and Henry Bratsberg. His parents were of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry."