Norman Corwin
Know for: Writing
Born: 1910-05-03
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Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann (1992)
Music For The Movies: Bernard Herrmann explores the work of a composer who created music for over 50 films, collaborating with such diverse directors...
People's Avengers (1943)
About the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War.
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2005)
On May 8th, 1945, writer, director Norman Corwin broadcast ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, an unforgettable homage to the end of war in Europe. This film...
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent...
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man (2010)
A documentary about one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 1950s and 1960s. Charles Beaumont was responsible for penning some of...
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity (2015)
In 1935, 17-year-old aspiring actress Marsha Hunt was discovered in Hollywood. She signed with Paramount Pictures and went on to a flourishing career...
Corwin (1996)
Biography of Norman Corwin, the great writer, producer and director of the Golden Age of Radio. Actors in his radio plays included Orson Welles,...
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who...
Lust for Life (1956)
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and...
Forever and a Day (1943)
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
Madison Avenue (1961)
An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.
The Naked Maja (1958)
A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba
The Blue Veil (1951)
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Scandal at Scourie (1953)
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at...
The Story of Ruth (1960)
Ruth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons Mahlon and Chillion die, leaving Naomi a widow...
Sametka (1968)
A boy has a velvetbean caterpillar as a pet. He teaches it to dance and it becomes a world sensation.
Once Upon a Time (1944)
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night,...
Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita (1974)
Dramatization of the trial of General Yamashita.