Read more
Informationen zum Autor Walter Mirisch is the producer, in whole or in part, of more than one hundred films. Among his company's honors are three Oscars for best picture-- The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), and In the Heat of the Night (1967). Mirisch has also received two honorary Academy Awards, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1977) and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1983); and has been honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award (1977) presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures (1995) presented by the Producers Guild of America. He has been decorated by the Republic of France with its Order of Arts and Letters, has received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is a recipient of the UCLA Medal, that university's highest award. Mirisch served three terms as president of the Producers Guild of America and four terms as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Klappentext "Legendary producer, visionary filmmaker, courageous seeker of truth, especially in troubling times."--Sidney Poitier, from the foreword Zusammenfassung Reveals the author's experience of Hollywood in its golden days and tells the stories of the stars who appeared in his films! including Natalie Wood! John Wayne! Peter Sellers! Sidney Poitier! Steve McQueen! Marilyn Monroe! and many others.
