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The Age of Innocence
The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
Pygmalion
My Fair Lady
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (La Rivière du hibou)
The Yellow Wallpaper

The Age of Innocence

In this screen version of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, Daniel Day Lewis is the wealthy New York City attorney who marries May Welland (Winona Ryder) but continues to pine away for her cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer). Joanne Woodward narrates.

1993, Color, 133 minutes. Production Management: Jean-Pierre Avice. Unit Production Manager, Paris Patricia Anne Doherty. Assistant Production Manager, Bruce S. Pustin. Unit Production Manager. Music Scorer: Elmer Bernstein. Non-Original Music: Charles Gounod (from opera "Faust"), Johann Strauss (waltz), Screenwriters: Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese. Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus.. Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker. Production Design: Dante Ferretti. Art Direction: Speed Hopkins. Set Decoration: Robert J. Franco and Amy Marshall. Costume Design: Gabriella Pescucci and Barbara Matera (uncredited). Makeup Department: Hair Designer: Alan D'Angerio (as Alan Dangerio). Hair Stylist: Michael Kriston. Wigs: Peter Owen. Special Makeup Effects Artist: Manlio Rocchetti. Hair Consultant: Antonio Sodda. Makeup Artist for Ms. Pfeiffer: Ronnie Specter. Makeup Artist: Allen Weisinger. Head Makeup Artist Paris: Antoine Garabedian. Director: Martin Scorsese.

Additional Cast: Alexis Smith (Louisa van der Luyden), Geraldine Chaplin (Mrs. Welland), Mary Beth Hurt (Regina Beaufort), Alec McCowen (Sillerton Jackson), Richard E. Grant (Larry Lefferts), Miriam Margolyes (Mrs. Mingott), Robert Sean Leonard (Ted Archer), Siân Phillips (Mrs. Archer), Jonathan Pryce (Rivière), Michael Gough (Henry van der Luyden), Stuart Wilson (Julius Beaufort), Carolyn Farina ( Janey Archer), Tracey Ellis (Gertrude Lefferts), Norman Lloyd (Mr. Letterblair), Domenica Cameron-Scorsese (Katie Blenker as Domenica Scorsese), Thomas Gibson (Stage Actor), Linda Faye Farkas (Female Opera Singer), Michael Rees Davis (Male Opera Singer), Terry Cook (Male Opera Singer), Jon Garrison (Male Opera Singer), Howard Erskine (Beaufort Guest), John McLoughlin (Party Guest), Christopher Nilsson (Party Guest), Kevin Sanders (The Duke), W.B. Brydon (Mr. Urban Dagonet), Cristina Pronzati. (Countess Olenska's Maid), Clement Fowler (Florist), Cindy Katz (Stage Actress), June Squibb (Mingott Maid), Mac Orange (Archer Maid), Brian Davies (Philip), Thomas Barbour (Archer Guest), Henry Fehren (Bishop), Patricia Dunnock (Mary Archer), Zoë) (Herself as Zoë), Claire Bloom (uncredited), Catherine Scorsese (uncredited), Charles Scorsese (uncredited), Martin Scorsese (Photographer uncredited), Michael Trout (Man in crowd/Gentleman with lady uncredited).

Awards for The Age of Innocence 1993:

Academy Awards Nominees 1994:
Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Winona Ryder
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Dante Ferretti and Robert J. Franco)
Best Music, Original Score (Elmer Bernstein)
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese)
Academy Awards Winner 1994:
Best Costume Design (Gabriella Pescucci)

BAFTA Film Awards Nominees 1994:
Best Actress Supporting (Winona Ryder)
Best Cinematography (Michael Ballhaus), Best Production Design (Dante Ferretti)
BAFTA Awards Winner 1994:
Film Award Best Actress Supporting (Miriam Margolyes)

Bodil Awards Winner 1994:
Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film) (Martin Scorsese, Director)

Camerimage Year Awards Nominee 1993:
Golden Frog (Michael Ballhaus)

Directors Guild of America Nominee1994:
Martin Scorsese

Golden Globe Awards Nominees 1994:
Best Director--Motion Picture (Martin Scorsese)
Drama Film Best Actress (Michelle Pfeiffer)
Golden Globes Awards Winner 1994:
Best Film Actress Supporting Role (Winona Ryder)

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Awards 1994:
Silver Ribbon Best Costume Design Winner (Migliori Costumi) (Gabriella Pescucci)
Best Production Design Winner (Migliore Scenografia) (Dante Ferretti)

National Board of Review Winners 1993:
Best Director (Martin Scorsese)
Best Supporting Actress (Winona Ryder)

Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards 1994:
Best Supporting Actress (Winona Ryder)

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The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice

In this screen version of William Shakespere's 1604 tragedy, Othello, the Moorish General (Orson Welles) woos and wins the Venetian Desdemona (Suzanne Cloutier) but later kills her in a jealous rage due to the evil machinations of Iago (Micheál MacLiammóir), who falsely accuses her of adultery with Michael Cassio (Michael Laurence). Full of belated remorse at his killing of his innocent wife, Othello takes his own life.

1952, B/W, 92 minutes. Producers: Julien Derode, Associate, Walter Bedone (uncredited), Patrice Dal (uncredited), Rocco Facchini (uncredited), Giorgio Papi (uncredited), Orson Welles (uncredited). Music Scorers: Alberto Barberis and Angelo Francesco Lavagnino. Screenwriters: Jean Sacha (uncredited), William Shakespeare (play), Orson Welles (uncredited). Cinematographers: Anchise Brizzi, George Fanto, Alberto Fusi, Aldo Graziati (as G.R. Aldo), Oberdan Troiani. Editors: Jenö Csepreghy (as John Shepridge), Renzo Lucidi, William Morton, Jean Sacha. Production Design: Luigi Scaccianoce and Alexandre Trauner. Costume Design: Maria De Matteis. Director: Orson Welles.

Additional Cast: Robert Coote (Roderigo), Hilton Edwards (Brabantio), Nicholas Bruce (Lodovico), Fay Compton (Emilia), Doris Dowling (Bianca), Abdullah Ben Mohamet (Page-Boy uncredited), Joseph Cotten (Senator uncredited), Jean Davis (Montano uncredited), Joan Fontaine (Page uncredited).

Awards for The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice 1952:

Cannes Film Festival Award 1952:
Grand Prize of the Festival: (Orson Welles Tied with Due soldi di speranza) 1952

International Fantasy Film Nominee 1993
Best Film (Orson Welles)

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Much Ado about Nothing

In this screen version of Shakespeare's 1600 play, under the watchful eye of Don Pedro of Aragon (Denzel Washington), Seigneur Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thompson) spar their way to love and marriage, while Don John (Keanu Reeves) tries to thwart the marriage of Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard) and Hero (Kate Beckinsale).

1993/Color, 111 minutes. Kenneth Branagh Production. Music Scorer: Patrick Doyle. Screenwriters: Kenneth Branagh and William Shakespeare (play). Cinematographer: Roger Lanser. Editor: Andrew Marcus. Production Design: Tim Harvey. Art Direction: Martin Childs. Costume Design: Phyllis Dalton. Makeup: Makeup Artist: Paul Engelen. Key Hair Stylist: Suzanne Stokes-Munton. Director: Kenneth Branagh.

Additional Cast: Richard Briers (Seigneur Leonato, Governor of Messina), Michael Keaton (Constable Dogberry), Imelda Staunton (Margaret), Jimmy Yuill (Friar Francis), Brian Blessed (Seigneur Antonio), Andy Hockley (George Seacole), Chris Barnes (Francis Seacole), Conrad Nelson (Hugh Oatcake), Phyllida Law (Ursula), Alex Lowe (Messenger), Richard Clifford (Conrade), Gerard Horan (Borachio), Patrick Doyle (Balthazar), Alex Scott (The Boy), Ben Elton (Headborough Verges), Edward Jewesbury (Sexton).

Awards for Much Ado About Nothing 1993:

BAFTA Film Awards Nominee 1994:
Best Costume Design Nominee (Phyllis Dalton)

Cannes Film Festival Nominee 1993:
Golden Palm Nominee (Kenneth Branagh)

Evening Standard British Film Awards 1994:
Best Actress (Emma Thompson
Also for The Remains of the Day (1993)

Golden Globes Awards Nominee 1994:
Best Motion Picture--Comedy/Musical

Guild of German Art House Cinemas Award 1994:
Guild Film Award--Silver Foreign Film (Ausländischer Film) (Kenneth Branagh)

Independent Spirit Awards Nominees 1994:
Best Feature: (Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Evans, David Parfitt)
Best Female Lead (Emma Thompson)

London Critics Circle Film Awards 1994:
British Producer of the Year (Kenneth Branagh)

Razzie Awards Nominee 1994:
Worst Supporting Actor (Keanu Reeves)

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Pygmalion

In this film version of George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play, Leslie Howard is Henry Higgins, a phonetics professor who tries to teach a Cockney guttersnipe girl, Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller), the language and manners of a lady. The film and play focus on Higgins' efforts to pass Eliza off as a princess when she and Higgins attend a festive ball for the Queen of Transylvania.

1938, B/W, 85 minutes. Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Production, Producer, Gabriel Pascal. Original Music: Arthur Honegger. Musical Director: Dr. William Axt. Screenplay and Additional Dialogue: George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb. Cinematographer: Harry Stradling. Editor: David Lean. Art Direction: John Bryan. Costume Design: Ladislaw Czettel (as Professor L. Czettel). Directors: Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard.

Additional Cast: Wilfred Lawson (Alfred P. Doolittle), David Tree (Freddy Eynsford-Hill), Esme Percy (Neppommuck), Jean Cadell (Mrs. Pearce), Scott Sunderland (Col. Pickering), Marie Lohr (Mrs. Higgins), Everley Gregg (Mrs. Eynsford-Hill), Leueen MacGrath (Clara Eynsford-Hill), Esme Percy (Count Aristid Karpathy), Violet Vanbrugh (Ambassadress), Iris Hoey (Ysabel), Viola Tree (Perfide), Irene Browne (Duchess), Wally Patch (Bystander), H. F. Maltby (Bystander), Stephen Murray (Police Constable), O. B. Clarence (Vicar), George Mozart (Bystander), Ivor Barnard (Bystander), Kate Cutler (Grand Old Lady), Cathleen Nesbitt (Guest at Embassy Ball), Cecil Trouncer (Guest at Embassy Ball), Frank Atkinson (Guest at Embassy Ball), Leo Genn (Guest at Embassy Ball), Eileen Beldon (Guest at Embassy Ball), Anthony Quayle (French Hairdresser).

Awards for Pygmalion 1938:

Academy Awards Nominees 1939:
Best Actor (Leslie Howard)
Best Picture (Gabriel Pascal, Producer)
Academy Awards Winners:
Best Screenplay (George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb)

The National Board of Review Awards List of Best Actors and Actresses:
Best Actresss (Wendy Hiller)

New York Times Annual "Ten Best" List:

The Annual Top Money-Making Films:
Number 10

Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup Winner 1938
Best Actor (Leslie Howard)

Mussolini Cup Nominee 1938
Best Film (Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard)

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My Fair Lady

In cooperation with Frederick Loewe, Alan J. Lerner adapted George Bernard Shaw's 1913 Pygmalion into a musical. Audrey Hepburn is Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower girl transformed into a lady by phonetics and Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison).

1964, Color, 170 minutes. Producer: Jack Warner. Musical Scorer: Frederick Loewe, André Previn. Screenwriter: Alan J. Lerner. Choreographer: Hermes Pan. Lyrics Writer: Alan J. Lerner. Cinematographer: Harry Stradling. Editor: William H. Ziegler (as William Ziegler). Production Design: Cecil Beaton, Gene Allen (I) (uncredited). Set Decoration: George James Hopkins. Costume Design: Cecil Beaton. Makeup: Gordon Bau, Makeup Supervisor: Jean Burt Reilly. Hair Stylist Supervisor. Robert J. Schiffer. Director: George Cukor.

Additional Cast: Marni Nixon (Voice of Singing Eliza), Bill Shirley (Voice of Singing Freddy), Jack Raine (Voice of Singing Freddy), Mona Washburn (Mrs. Pearce), Wilfred Hyde-White (Col. Pickering), Stanley Holloway (Alfred P. Doolittle), Gladys Cooper (Mrs. Higgins), Jeremy Brett (Freddy Eynsford-Hill), Theodore Bikel (Zoltan Karpathy), Isobel Elsom (Mrs. Eysnford-Hill), John Alderson (Jamie), John McLiam (Harry), Ben Wrigley (Costermonger), Clive Halliday (Costermonger), Richard Peel (Costermonger), Eric Heath Costermonger), James O'Hara (Costermonger), Kendrick Huxham (Elegant Bystander), Frank Baker (Elegant Bystander),Walter Burke (Main Bystander), Queenie Leonard (Cockney Bystander), Laurie Main (Hoxton Man), Maurice Dallimore (Selsey Man), Owen McGiveney (Man at Coffee Stand), Marjorie Bennett (Cockney with Pipe), Britannia Beatey (Daughter of Elegant Bystander), Beatrice Greenough (Grand Lady), Hilda Plowright (Bystander), Dinah Anne Rogers (Maid), Lois Battle (Maid), Jacqueline Squire (Parlor Maid), Gwendolyn Watts (Cook), Eugene Hoffman (Juggler), Kai Farrelli (Juggler), Joe Evans (Cockney), Marie Busch (Cockney), Mary Alexander (Cockney), William Linkie (Cockney), Henry Sweetman (Cockney), Andrew Brown (Cockney), Samuel Holmes (Cockney), Thomas Dick (Cockney), William Taylor (Cockney), James Wood (Cockney), Goldie Kleban (Cockney), Elizabeth Aimers (Cockney), Joy Tierney (Cockney), Lenore Miller (Cockney), Donna Day (Cockney), Corinne Ross (Cockney), Phyllis Kennedy (Cockney), David Robel (Cockney), Iris Bristol (Flower Girl), Alma Lawton (Flower Girl), Gigi Michel (Toff), Sandy Steffens (Toff), Sandy Edmundson (Toff), Marlene Marrow (Toff), Carol Merrill (Toff), Sue Bronson (Toff), Lea Genovese (Toff), Jack Greening (George), Ron Whelan (Algernon Bartender), John Holland (Butler), Roy Dean (Footman), Charles Fredericks (King), Lillian Kemble-Cooper (Lady Ambassador), Barbara Pepper (Doolittle's Dance Partner), Ayllene Gibbons (Fat Woman at Pub), Baroness Rothschild (Queen of Transylvania), Ben Wright (Footman at Ball), Oscar Beregi, Jr. (Greek Ambassador), Buddy Bryan (Prince), Grady Sutton (Ascot Type), Orville Sherman (Ascot Type), Harvey Dunn (Ascot Type), Barbara Morrison (Ascot Type), Natalie Core (Ascot Type), Helen Albrecht (Ascot Type), Diana Bourbon (Ascot Type), Moyna MacGill (Lady Boxington), Colin Campbell (Ascot Gavotte), Marjory Hawtrey (Ad Libs at Ascot), Paulle Clark (Ad Libs at Ascot), Allyson Daniell (Ad Libs at Ascot), Betty Blythe (Ad Lib at Ball), Nick Navarro (Dancer), Tom Cound (Footman), William Beckley (Footman), Alan Napier (Ambassador), Geoffrey Steele (Taxi Driver), Jennifer Crier (Mrs. Higgins's Maid), Henry Daniell (Prince Gregor of Transylvania), Patrick O'Moore (Man), Victor Rogers (Police Officer), Michael St. Clair (Bartender), Brendan Dillon (Leaning Man), Olive Reeves-Smith (Mrs. Hopkins), Miriam Schiller (Landlady), Elzada Wilson (Ad Lib at Church), Jeanne Carson (Ad Lib at Church), Buddy Shea (Ad Lib at Church), Jack Goldie (Ad Lib at Church), Sid Marion (Ad Lib at Church), Stanley Fraser (Ad Lib at Church), George Pelling (Ad Lib at Church), Colin Kenny (Ad Lib at Church), LaWana Backer (Ad Lib at Church), Monika Henreid (Ad Lib at Church), Anne Dore (Ad Lib at Church), Pauline Drake (Ad Lib at Church), Shirley Melline (Ad Lib at Church), Wendy Russell (Ad Lib at Church), Meg Brown (Ad Lib at Church), Clyde Howdy (Ad Lib at Church), Nick Wolcuff (Ad Lib at Church), Martin Eric (Ad Lib at Church), John Mitchum (Ad Lib at Church), Major Sam Harris (Guest at Ball).

Awards for My Fair Lady 1964:

Academy Awards Nominees 1965:
Best Supporting Actress (Gladys Cooper)
Best Supporting Actor (Stanley Holloway)
Best Screenplay Based on Another Medium (Alan J. Lerner)
Best Film Editing (William H. Ziegler)
Academy Awards Winners:
Best Picture (Jack L. Warner, Producer)
Best Actor (Rex Harrison)
Best Director (George Cukor)
Cinematography (Harry Stradling)
Art Direction/Set Direction (Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton, and George James Hopkins)
Sound (George Groves)
Best Musical Scoring (André Previn)

The New York Film Critics Awards Winners:
Best Picture
Best Actor (Rex Harrison)

The National Board of Review Awards Winner:
Best English Language Film

Golden Globe Awards Nominees 1965:
Motion Picture Actress--Musical/Comedy (Audrey Hepburn)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role--Motion Picture (Stanley Holloway)
Golden Globe Awards Winners:
Best Motion Picture as Musical/Comedy
Best Actor of Musical/Comedy (Rex Harrison)
Best Motion Picture Director (George Cukor)

The Directors Guild of America Awards 1965:
Best Director (George Cukor and David Hall, Assistant Director) (Plaque)

New York Times Annual "Ten Best" Series:
Number 7 on the Annual Top Money-Making Films
Number 141 on the Top 200 Money-Making Films of All Times

American Cinema Editors, USA Nominee 1956:
Best Edited Feature Film (William H. Ziegler)

BAFTA Film Awards Nominee 1966:
Best British Actor (Rex Harrison)
BAFTA Awards Winner 1966:
Best Film from any Source (George Cukor)

Cinema Writers Circle Awards Winner, Spain 1966:
Best Foreign Film (Mejor Pelíícula Extranjera)

David di Donatello Awards Winner:
Best Foreign Production (Migliore Produzione Straniera) (Jack L. Warner, Producer)

Laurel Awards Nominees 1965:
4th Place Golden Laurel Supporting Performance, Male (Stanley Holloway)
Laurel Awards Winner:
Golden Laurel Musical Performance, Male (Rex Harrison)
Road Show Awards Winner:
3rd Place Golden Laurel Comedy Performance, Female (Audrey Hepburn)

Writers Guild of America Nominee 1965:
(Screen) Best Written American Musical (Alan Jay Lerner)

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Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (La Rivière du hibou)

In this screen adaptation of Ambrose Bierce's 1891 short story, Peyton Farquhar (Roger Jacquet), a civilian Confederate sympathizer, is be hanged by Union soldiers as a spy. He manages to escape and swim to shore. From that point, he makes his way home to his wife (Anne Cornaly) after many struggles. Rod Serling is the Narrator since this was a Twilight Zone broadcast.

1962 B/W, 28 minutes. Producers: Marcel Ichac and Paul de Roubaix. Music Scorer: Henri Lanoë . Screenwriter: Ambrose Bierce (story) and Robert Enrico. Cinematographer: Jean Boffety. Editor: Robert Enrico and Denise de Casabianca.. Director: Robert Enrico.

Additional Cast: Anker Larsen, Stéphane Fey (Union Officer), Jacques-François Zeller, Pierre Danny, Louis Adelin, Kenny Clarke (Singer).

Awards for Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (La Rivièère du hibou) 1962:

Academy Awards Winner 1964:
Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects (Paul de Roubaix and Marcel Ichac)

BAFTA Awards Winner 1963:
Best Short Film France

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