20th Century Fox
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
Warner Bros.
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Woodfall Film Productions
The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century England.
Horizon Pictures
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Mirisch Company
When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
The Mirisch Company
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM); as An Arthur Freed Production
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
Horizon Pictures
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
Michael Anderson Company
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. He makes a £20,000 wager with four sceptical fellow members of the Reform Club (each contributing £5,000 to the bet) that he can arrive back eighty days from exactly 8:45 pm that evening."
I'll give you a definite maybe.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
