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Career is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 8 october 1959 with Dean Martin
Career (1959)
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Add to a movie listCareer is a 1959 blacklist film drama co-written by Dalton Trumbo and starring Dean Martin, Tony Franciosa, and Shirley MacLaine.
The movie involves actor Sam Lawson (Franciosa), bent on breaking into the big time at any cost, braving World War II, the Korean War and even the blacklist, something that writer Trumbo knew all too well from being blacklisted himself.
Career was written by Bert Granet, James Lee (whose play served as the foundation for the film), Philip Strong and Trumbo, and directed by Joseph Anthony. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards and won one Golden Globe Award.
Synopsis
Actor-director Maurice "Maury" Novak (Dean Martin) works with actor Sam Lawson (Tony Franciosa) in an early grassroots theatrical group later targeted as "subversive" for its liberal views. Novak leaves the theater to become a well known Hollywood director until he is brought down by the blacklist himself.Actors
Dean Martin
(Maurice 'Maury' Novak)
Anthony Franciosa
(Sam Lawson)
Shirley MacLaine
(Sharon Kensington)
Carolyn Jones
(Shirley Drake)
Joan Blackman
(Barbara Lawson Helmsley)
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