William Wyler (61 page)

Memphis Belle
(1944)
Presented by: War Department

Produced by: U.S. Eighth Air Force Photographic Section, in cooperation with Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit

Producer: William Wyler

Director: William Wyler

Script: William Wyler

Photography: William C. Clothier and Harold Tannenbaum (William Wyler, uncredited)

Additional photography: William Wyler
Editor: Lynn Harrison
Music: Gail Kubik
Narration: Lester Koenig
Narrators: Eugene Kern and John Beal

Distribution: Paramount Pictures Inc., under the auspices of the War Activities Committee
41 minutes

Thunderbolt
(1945)

Produced by: Carl Krueger Productions and the U.S. Air Force, under the command of Lieutenant Ira C. Eaker

Direction and editing: William Wyler and John Sturges

Script: Lester Koenig

Music: Gail Kubik

Introduced by: James Stewart
Narrated by: Eugene Kern and Lloyd Bridges
Distribution: Monogram Pictures
44 minutes

The Best Years of Our Lives
(1946)
Samuel Goldwyn Production
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Director: William Wyler

Screenplay: Robert E. Sherwood, based on the verse novel
Glory for Me
by MacKinlay Kantor
Photography: Gregg Toland
Editor: Daniel Mandell

Art direction: George Jenkins and Perry Ferguson

Set decoration: Julia Heron

Costume design: Irene Sharaff

Musical score: Hugo Friedhofer

Music direction: Emil Newman

Assistant director: Joseph Boyle

Production assistant: Lester Koenig

Cast: Myrna Loy (Milly Stephenson), Fredric March (Al Stephenson), Dana Andrews (Fred Derry), Teresa Wright (Peggy Stephenson), Virginia Mayo (Marie Derry), Cathy O'Donnell (Wilma Cameron), Hoagy Carmichael (Butch Engel), Harold Russell (Homer Parrish), Gladys George (Hortense Derry), Roman Bohnen (Mr. Derry), Ray Collins (Mr. Milton), Steve Cochran (Cliff), Minna Gombell (Mrs. Parrish), Walter Baldwin (Mr. Parrish), Dorothy Adams (Mrs. Cameron), Don Beddoe (Mr. Cameron), Victor Cutler (Woody), Erskine Sandord (Bullard), Marlene Aames (Luella Parrish), Michael Hall (Rob Stephenson), Charles Halton (Prew), Ray Teal (Mr. Mollett), Howland Chamberlin (Thorpe), Dean White (Novak), Ralph Sanford (George Gibbons) Distribution: RKO Pictures
172 minutes

The Heiress
(1949)
Paramount

Producer: William Wyler
Director: William Wyler

Associate producers: Lester Koenig and Robert Wyler
Screenplay: Ruth and Augustus Goetz, based on their play
The Heiress
, suggested by the novel
Washington Square
by Henry James
Photography: Leo Tover
Editor: William Hornbeck

Production design: Harry Horner
Art direction: John Meehan
Set decoration: Emile Kuri
Costumes: Edith Head
Makeup supervision: Wally Westmore
Music: Aaron Copland

Special photographic effects: Gordon Jennings
Assistant director: C. C. Coleman Jr.

Cast: Olivia de Havilland (Catherine Sloper), Montgomery Clift (Morris Townsend), Ralph Richardson (Dr. Austin Sloper), Miriam Hopkins (Lavinia Penniman), Mona Freeman (Marian Almond), Vanessa Brown (Maria), Selena Hoyle (Elizabeth Almond), Ray Collins (Jefferson Almond), Betty Linley (Mrs. Montgomery), Paul Lees (Arthur Townsend), Harry Antrim (Mr. Abeel), Russ Conway (Quintus), Davis Thursby (Geier), Donald Kerr (Fish Peddler), Harry Pipe (Mr. Gebhardt), Una Mortished (Chambermaid), Ralph Sanford (Captain,
Castle Queen
), Lester Dorr (Groom)
Distribution: Paramount
115 minutes

Detective Story
(1951)
Paramount

Producer: William Wyler
Director: William Wyler

Associate producers: Lester Koenig and Robert Wyler

Screenplay: Philip Yordan and Robert Wyler, based on the play by Sidney Kingsley

Photography: Lee Garmes
Editor: Robert Swink

Art direction: Hal Pereira and Earl Hedrick
Set decoration: Emile Kuri
Costumes: Edith Head

Cast: Kirk Douglas (Detective James McLeod), Eleanor Parker (Mary McLeod), William Bendix (Detective Lou Brody), Cathy O'Donnell (Susan Carmichael), Bert Freed (Detective Dakis), Frank Faylen (Detective Gallagher), William Phillips (Callahan), Grandon Rhodes (Detective O'Brien), Luis Van Rooten (Joe Feinson), Craig Hill (Arthur Kindred), Lee Grant (Shoplifter), Horace McMahon (Lt. Monaghan), Warner Anderson (Endicott Sims), George Macready (Karl Schneider), Joseph Wiseman (Charles Gennini), Michael Strong (Lewis Abbott), Russell Evans (Patrolman Barnes), Howard Joslyn (Patrolman Keogh), Gladys George (Miss Hatch), Burt Mustin (Willy), Gerald Mohr (Tami Giacopetti), James Maloney (Mr. Pritchett), Edmund F. Cobb (Detective), Mike Mahoney (Coleman), Catherine Doucet (Mrs. Farrigut), Ann Codee (Frenchwoman), Ralph Montgomery (Finney), Pat Flaherty (Desk Sergeant), Bob Scot (Mulvey), Harper Goff (Galents), Donald Kerr (Taxi Driver)

Distribution: Paramount
103 minutes

Carrie
(1952)
Paramount

Producer: William Wyler
Director: William Wyler
Associate producer: Lester Koenig

Screenplay: Ruth and Augustus Goetz, based on the novel
Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dresier
Photography: Victor Milner
Editor: Robert Swink

Art direction: Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson
Set decoration: Emile Kuri
Costumes: Edith Head
Musical score: David Raskin

Cast: Laurence Olivier (George Hurstwood), Jennifer Jones (Carrie Meeber), Miriam Hopkins (Julia Hurstwood), Eddie Albert (Charles Drouet), Basil Ruysdael (Mr. Fitzgerald), Ray Teal (Allen), Barry Kelley (Slawson), Sara Berner (Mrs. Oransky), William Reynolds (George Hurstwood Jr.), Mary Murphy (Jessica Hurstwood), Harry Hayden (O'Brien), Charles Halton (Factory Foreman), Walter Baldwin (Carrie's Father), Dorothy Adams (Carrie's Mother), Jacqueline de Wit (Carrie's Sister, Minnie), Harlan Briggs (Joe Brant), Melinda Plowman (Little Girl), Donald Kerr (Slawson's Bartender), Lester Sharpe (Mr. Blum), Don Beddoe (Mr. Goodman), John Alvin (Stage Manager), Judith Adams (Bride), Martin Doric (Maitre d'), Ralph Sanford (Waiter)
Distribution: Paramount
118 minutes

Roman Holiday
(1953)
Paramount

Producer: William Wyler
Director: William Wyler
Associate producer: Robert Wyler

Screenplay: Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton, and Dalton Trumbo, based on a story by Ian McLellan Hunter
Photography: Frank F. Planer and Henri Alekan

Editor: Robert Swink

Art direction: Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler
Costumes: Edith Head
Musical score: Georges Auric

Assitant directors: Herbert Coleman and Piero Mussetta
Cast: Gregory Peck (Joe Bradley), Audrey Hepburn (Princess Anne), Eddie Albert (Irving Radovich), Hartley Power (Mr. Hennessy), Harcourt Williams (Ambassador), Margaret Rawlings (Countess Vereberg), Tullio Carminati (General Provno), Paolo Carlini (Mario Delani), Claudio Ermelli (Giovanni), Paolo Borboni (Charwoman), Alfredo Rizzo (Taxicab Driver), Laura Solari (Hennessy's Secretary), Gorella Gori (Shoe Seller)
Distribution: Paramount
119 minutes

The Desperate Hours
(1955)
Paramount

Producer: William Wyler

Director: William Wyler

Associate director: Robert Wyler

Screenplay: Joseph Hayes, based on his novel and play

Photography: Lee Garmes

Editor: Robert Swink

Art direction: Hal Pereira and Joseph MacMillan Johnson

Costumes: Edith Head

Music: Gail Kubik

Second unit director: John Waters

Assistant director: C. C. Coleman Jr.

Sound: Hugo Grenzbach and Winston Leverett

Cast: Humphrey Bogart (Glenn Griffin), Fredric March (Dan Hilliard), Arthur Kennedy (Jesse Bard), Martha Scott (Eleanor Hilliard), Dewey Martin (Hal Griffin), Gig Young (Chuck), Mary Murphy (Cindy Hilliard), Richard Eyer (Ralphie Hilliard), Robert Middleton (Sam Kobish), Alan Reed (Detective), Bert Freed (Winston), Ray Collins (Masters), Whit Bissell (Carson), Ray Teal (Fredericks), Michael Moore (Detective), Don Haggerty (Detective), Ric Roman (Sal), Pat Flaherty (Dutch), Beverly Garland (Miss Swift), Louis Lettieri (Bucky Walling), Ann Doran (Mrs. Walling), Walter Baldwin (Patterson)
Distribution: Paramount
112 minutes

Friendly Persuasion
(1956)
Allied Artists
Producer: William Wyler

Director: William Wyler
Associate producer: Robert Wyler

Screenplay: Jessamyn West, Michael Wilson, and Robert Wyler (uncredited), based on the collected stories
The Friendly Persuasion
by Jessamyn West

Photography: Ellsworth Fredericks

Editors: Robert Swink, Edward A. Biery, and Robert A. Belcher

Art direction: Edward S. Haworth

Costume design: Dorothy Jeakins

Muisc: composed and conducted by Dmitri Tiomkin

Songs: “Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love),” sung by Pat Boone; “Mocking Bird in a Willow Tree”; “Marry Me, Marry Me”; “Coax Me a Little”; and “Indiana Holiday,” lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, music by Dmitri Tiomkin

Technical adviser: Jessamyn West
Assistant to the producer: Stuart Millar
Assistant director: Austen Jewell

Cast: Gary Cooper (Jess Birdwell), Dorothy McGuire (Eliza Birdwell), Marjorie Main (Widow Hudspeth), Anthony Perkins (Josh Birdwell), Richard Eyer (Little Jess), Robert Middleton (Sam Jordan), Phyllis Love (Mattie Birdwell), Mark Richman (Gard Jordan), Walter Catlett (Professor Quigley), Joel Fluellen (Enoch), Richard Hale (Purdy), Theodore Newton (Major Harvey), John Smith (Caleb), Samantha (Goose), Mary Carr (Quaker Woman), Edna Skinner, Frances Farwell, and Marjorie Durant (Hudspeth Daughers), Russell Simpson, Charles Halton, and Everett Glass (Elders), Richard Garland (Bushwacker), Jean Inness (Mrs. Purdy), Nelson Leigh (Minister), Helen Kleeb (Old Woman), John Craven (Leader), Frank Jenks (Shell Game Man), Diane Jergens (Elizabeth), Ralph Sanford (Businessman), Donald Kerr (Manager)
Distribution: United Artists
119 minutes

The Letter
(1956; television)

NBC, Producer's Showcase

Producer: William Wyler

Director: William Wyler

Television director: Kirk Browning

Based on the play by Somerset Maugham

Cast: Siobhan McKenna (Leslie Crosbie), John Mills (Robert Crosbie), Michael Rennie (Howard Joyce), Anna May Wong (Mrs. Hammond)

The Big Country
(1958)
Anthony–World Wide Production

Producers: William Wyler and Gregory Peck
Director: William Wyler
Associate producer: Robert Wyler

Screenplay: James R. Webb, Sy Bartlett, and Robert Wilder

Adaptation: Jessamyn West and Robert Wyler, based on the novel
The Big
Country
by Donald Hamilton

Photography: Franz F. Planer

Supervising editor: Robert Swink

Editors: Robert Belcher and John Faure

Art direction: Frank Hotaling

Music: Jerome Moross

Music editor: Lloyd Young

Second unit directors: John Waters and Robert Swink

Director of photography, second unit: Wallace Chewning

Assistant director: Ivan Volkman

Second assistant director: Ray Gosnell

Assistant to William Wyler: Clarence Marks

Title design: Saul Bass

Cast: Gregory Peck (James McKay), Jean Simmons (Julie Maragon), Carroll Baker (Patricia Terrill), Charlton Heston (Steve Leech), Burl Ives (Rufus Hannassey), Charles Bickford (Major Henry Terrill), Alfonso Bedoya (Ramon), Chuck Connors (Buck Hannassey), Chuck Hayward (Rafe), Buff Brady (Dude), Jim Burk (Cracker), Dorothy Adams (Hannassey Woman), Chuck Robertson, Bob Morgan, John McKee, and Jay Slim Talbot (Terrill Cowboys)
Distribution: United Artists
166 minutes

Ben-Hur
(1959)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Producer: Sam Zimbalist
Director: William Wyler

Screenplay: Karl Tunberg (and Christopher Fry, S. N. Behrman, and Gore Vidal, uncredited), based on the novel by Lew Wallace
Photography: Robert L. Surtees

Additional photography: Harold E. Wellman and Pietro Portalupi
Second unit directors: Andrew Marton, Yakima Canutt, and Mario Soldati

Editors: Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning

Art direction: William A. Horning and Edward Carfagno

Set decoration: Hugh Hunt

Costume design: Elizabeth Haffenden

Music: Miklosz Rosa

Special effects: A. Arnold Gillespie, Lee LeBlanc, and Robert R. Hoag

Assistant directors: Gus Agosti and Alberto Cardone
Cast: Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur), Jack Hawkins (Quintus Arrius), Stephen Boyd (Messala), Haya Harareet (Esther), Hugh Griffith (Sheik Ilderim), Martha Scott (Miriam), Sam Jaffe (Simonides), Cathy O'Donnell (Tirzah), Finlay Currie (Balthasar), Frank Thring (Pontius Pilate), Terence Longden (Drusus), Andre Morell (Sextus), Marina Berti (Flavia), George Relph (Tiberius), Adi Berber (Malluch), Stella Vitelleschi (Amrah), Jose Greci (Mary), Laurence Payne (Joseph), John Horsley (Spintho), Richard Coleman (Metellus), Duncan Lamont (Marius), Ralph Truman (Aide to Tiberius), Richard Hale (Gaspar), Reginald Lal Singh (Melchior), David Davies (Quaestor), Dervis Ward (Jailer), Claude Heater (The Christ), Mino Doro (Gratus), Robert Brown (Chief of Rowers)
Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
212 minutes

The Children's Hour
(1961)

Mirisch–World Wide Production

Producer: William Wyler

Director: William Wyler

Associate producer: Robert Wyler

Screenplay: John Michael Hayes

Adaptation: Lillian Hellman, based on her stage play

Photography: Franz F. Planer

Editor: Robert Swink

Art direction: Fernando Carrere

Set decoration: Edward G. Boyle

Music: Alex North

Assistant directors: Robert E. Relyea and Jerome M. Siegel
Cast: Audrey Hepburn (Karen Wright), Shirley MacLaine (Martha Dobie), James Garner (Dr. Joe Cardin), Miriam Hopkins (Mrs. Lily Mortar), Fay Bainter (Mrs. Amelia Tilford), Karen Balkin (Mary Tilford), Veronica Cartwright (Rosalie), Jered Barclay (Grocery Boy)
Distribution: United Artists
107 minutes