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Samuel A. Taylor is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 13 june 1912 at Chicago (USA)
Samuel A. Taylor (June 13, 1912 – May 26, 2000) was an American playwright and screenwriter.
Born Samuel Albert Tanenbaum, in a Jewish family, in Chicago, Illinois, Taylor made his Broadway debut as author of the play The Happy Time in 1950. He wrote the play Sabrina Fair (1953) and co-wrote its film adaptation released the following year. In 1955, he won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay. His early success brought him more work in Hollywood, including the biographical film The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) and the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo (1958).
His film career faded after the initial box office failure of Vertigo, though Hitchcock and Taylor remained frequent collaborators. He was often contracted to write drafts for Hitchcock's later films, such as Torn Curtain (1966), though Taylor's only other Hitchcock screenplay (apart from Vertigo) was for Topaz (1969).
Taylor was nominated for his only Tony Award in as co-producer of the musical play No Strings (1962), for which he also wrote the book. Other playwrighting credits include Avanti! (1968), which he later adapted for the Billy Wilder film released in 1972 and Legend (1976).
Taylor died of heart failure in Blue Hill, Maine. His credits are sometimes confused with those of novelist and screenwriter Samuel W.
(1995)
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(1954)
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(1958)
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(1956)
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(1961)
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Birth name Samuel Albert Tanenbaum
Nationality USA
Birth 13 june 1912 at Chicago (USA)
Death 26 may 2000 (at 87 years) at Blue Hill (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 13 june 1912 at Chicago (USA)
Death 26 may 2000 (at 87 years) at Blue Hill (USA)
Born Samuel Albert Tanenbaum, in a Jewish family, in Chicago, Illinois, Taylor made his Broadway debut as author of the play The Happy Time in 1950. He wrote the play Sabrina Fair (1953) and co-wrote its film adaptation released the following year. In 1955, he won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay. His early success brought him more work in Hollywood, including the biographical film The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) and the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo (1958).
His film career faded after the initial box office failure of Vertigo, though Hitchcock and Taylor remained frequent collaborators. He was often contracted to write drafts for Hitchcock's later films, such as Torn Curtain (1966), though Taylor's only other Hitchcock screenplay (apart from Vertigo) was for Topaz (1969).
Taylor was nominated for his only Tony Award in as co-producer of the musical play No Strings (1962), for which he also wrote the book. Other playwrighting credits include Avanti! (1968), which he later adapted for the Billy Wilder film released in 1972 and Legend (1976).
Taylor died of heart failure in Blue Hill, Maine. His credits are sometimes confused with those of novelist and screenwriter Samuel W.
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The Monte Carlo Story (1956)
, 1h36Directed by Sam Taylor, Samuel A. Taylor
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O'Connell, Natalie Trundy, Mischa Auer, Renato Rascel
Rating57%
The story takes place against the backdrop of the glorious French Riviera. Marlene Dietrich plays a woman with a lot of class, but no money to satisfy her taste for the best things in life. She is dazzled by Count Della Fiabe, who is also trying to recuperate his debts at the gambling tables of the famous casino. To attract the woman, who he thinks is his meal ticket, the poor Italian noble man enlists the help of the same people to whom he owes money.
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Sabrina (1995)
, 2h7Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear, Nancy Marchand, Fanny Ardant, Richard Crenna
Roles Theatre Play
Rating62%
Sabrina Fairchild is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Thomas, and has been in love with David Larrabee all her life. David is a playboy, constantly falling in love, yet he has never noticed Sabrina, much to her dismay.
Avanti! (1972)
, 2h20Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews, Gianfranco Barra, Janet Ågren
Roles Theatre Play
Rating71%
For the past ten years, Baltimore industrialist Wendell Armbruster, Sr. has been spending a month at the Grand Hotel Excelsior in Ischia, allegedly to soak in the therapeutic mud baths for which the resort island is known. When he is killed in an automobile accident, his straitlaced son Wendell Armbruster, Jr. journeys to Italy to claim his father's body. Upon arrival he discovers his father was not alone in the Fiat he was driving; with him was his British mistress, whose daughter, free-spirited London shop girl Pamela Piggott, also is on the scene, though she clearly knew of their parents' clandestine romance beforehand. Hotel manager Carlo Carlucci attempts to smooth things over, taking on all the arrangements for the body to be taken back to Baltimore in time for burial in just three days time.
The Love Machine (1971)
, 1h48Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Genres Drama
Actors John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings, Maureen Arthur
Rating48%
Robin Stone works at a powerful TV network doing the news. He encounters an array of women, among them Judith Austin, the wife of a network executive. Judith asks her husband Greg to promote Robin and he does so. Robin and Judith then get into an extramarital affair while her husband is in the hospital for cardiac care.
The Love Machine (1971)
Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Genres Drama
Actors John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings, Edith Atwater
Rating48%
Robin Stone a d'autres ambitions que de présenter le JT. Beau gosse auquel nulle femme ne résiste, c'est sur Judith Austin qu'il jette son dévolu. Pour sa beauté bien sûr, mais surtout parce qu'elle est la femme du président d'une chaîne de télévision. Il espère bien qu'elle va l'aider à faire s'envoler sa carrière.
Promise at Dawn (1970)
, 1h39Directed by Jules Dassin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Melina Mercouri, Assi Dayan (אסי דיין), Déspo Diamantídou, Didier Haudepin, Jean Martin, Jacqueline Porel
Roles Theatre Play
Rating63%
The film follows author Romain Gary as he recalls his growing up with his Russian-born mother. The two leave Russia for France, where they settle in Paris. As twenty years pass, they encounter social change, age, different convictions, poverty and the slow approach of World War II.
Topaz (1969)
, 2h7Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films
Actors Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, John Forsythe, Karin Dor
Rating61%
In Copenhagen in 1962, a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer, Boris Kusenov (Per-Axel Arosenius), defects to the West with his wife and daughter after a chase through the streets to the US embassy. In Washington DC, CIA agent Mike Nordstrom (John Forsythe) debriefs him and learns that Russian ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads are to be placed in Cuba. Needing physical evidence of the missiles, he contacts an old friend, French agent André Devereaux (Frederick Stafford), at his house in Georgetown. Nordstrom discloses Kusenov's name to Devereaux, asking him to bribe Luis Uribe, a member of Cuba's U.N. delegation, to provide photographs of documents confirming the missile bases in Cuba (knowing that Uribe hates the United States and would never cooperate with an American agent). Devereaux decides to accompany his daughter Michèle (Claude Jade) on her honeymoon with journalist François Picard (Michel Subor) as a reason to go to New York City. His wife Nicole (Dany Robin) is worried and tries to dissuade him.
Rosie! (1967)
, 1h38Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Rosalind Russell, Sandra Dee, Brian Aherne, Audrey Meadows, James Farentino, Vanessa Brown
Rating66%
Rosie Lord (Russell) is a widowed millionaire who, much to the dismay of her daughters Mildred (Meadows) and Edith (Brown), spends her money generously. When she announces to buy a $2.5 million closed theater in a run-down part of Los Angeles, because it's the location where her late husband proposed to her and it's now threatened to be turned into a parking lot, her daughters decide that they have had enough. Edith and her husband Cabot (Nielsen) complain that they are only granted $100.000 a year, and work together with cold-hearted and recently divorced Mildred to discourage Rosie from making the buy. They are unable to convince her and her legal advisor Oliver (Aherne) to let them take care of their money, and thus decide to try to declare her incompetent, thereby hoping to put her in an insane asylum. Edith and Cabot's young daughter Daphne (Dee) is appalled to overhear the scheme, and vows to help her grandmother.
Three on a Couch (1966)
, 1h49Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Janet Leigh, Jerry Lewis, James Best, Kathleen Freeman, Mary Ann Mobley, Leslie Parrish
Rating57%
Christopher Pride wants to marry his girlfriend, Dr. Elizabeth Acord. However, she is too involved with her patients and she doesn't think that she would be able to leave them to live in Paris for a year. Pride decides to solve her patients' problems after finding out that most of them are merely despondent after having relationships go bad. Therefore, he decides to "date" these women, without Acord's knowledge, and give them back their self-esteem so that they will be less dependent on their doctor.
Goodbye Again (1961)
, 2hDirected by Anatole Litvak
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand, Jessie Royce Landis, Pierre Dux, Jocelyn Lane
Rating69%
Paula Tessier (Bergman) is a 40-year-old interior designer who for the past five years has been the mistress of Roger Demarest (Montand), a "philandering business executive" who refuses to stop seeing other women. When Paula meets Philip (Perkins), the 25-year-old son of one of her wealthy clients, he falls in love with her and insists that the age difference will not matter. Paula resists the young man's advances, but finally succumbs when Roger initiates yet another affair with one of his young "Maisies". While she is initially happy with Philip, her friends and business associates disapprove of the May–December romance.
The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
, 1h55Directed by George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds, Lilli Palmer, Tab Hunter, Gary Merrill, Charles Ruggles
Roles Pièce de théatre
Rating66%
San Francisco debutante Jessica Poole hasn't seen her father "Pogo" Poole since the divorce between him and her mother Katharine, many years before. Pogo went off to travel the world and enjoy himself, while Katharine remarried to stodgy banker Jim Dougherty.
The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
, 1h55Directed by George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds, Lilli Palmer, Tab Hunter, Gary Merrill, Charles Ruggles
Roles Theatre Play
Rating66%
Jessica Poole n'a jamais connu véritablement son père Biddeford Poole, dit Pogo, mais elle le vénère. Le jour de son mariage, ce dernier se décide à revenir au grand dam de toute la famille, excepté Jessica. La jeune fille devient enthousiaste au point de comparer son père à son fiancé Roger, au détriment de celui-ci...
Vertigo (1958)
, 2h8Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Les fantasmes, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide
Actors James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Ellen Corby
Rating82%
After a rooftop chase, where his acrophobia and vertigo result in the death of a policeman, San Francisco detective John "Scottie" Ferguson retires. Scottie tries to conquer his fear, but his friend and ex-fiancée Midge Wood suggests another severe emotional shock may be the only cure.
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
, 2h3Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Piano
Actors Kim Novak, Tyrone Power, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore, Shepperd Strudwick, Jack Albertson
Rating67%
Fresh out of pharmacy school, young Eddy Duchin travels to New York in the 1920s to take a job playing piano for bandleader Leo Reisman's orchestra. But upon arrival, Eddy learns there is no such job.
The Monte Carlo Story (1956)
, 1h36Directed by Sam Taylor, Samuel A. Taylor
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O'Connell, Natalie Trundy, Mischa Auer, Renato Rascel
Roles Histoire
Rating57%
The story takes place against the backdrop of the glorious French Riviera. Marlene Dietrich plays a woman with a lot of class, but no money to satisfy her taste for the best things in life. She is dazzled by Count Della Fiabe, who is also trying to recuperate his debts at the gambling tables of the famous casino. To attract the woman, who he thinks is his meal ticket, the poor Italian noble man enlists the help of the same people to whom he owes money.