Top Ten Collaborators - Whirlpool (1949)
by milam_ogden | created - 23 May 2014 | updated - 23 May 2014 | PublicOne of my favorite film noir movies, this has an unusual plotline. Received a 6.9 IMDb and is on four of my top ten lists: director Otto Preminger, actors Gene Tierney, Richard Conte and top 10 film noirs released in 1949. Here are the top ten contributors to this film.
1. Guy Endore
Writer | Story of G.I. Joe
The Oscar-nominated screenwriter Guy Endore -- who served as one of the "fronts" during the time of the Hollywood blacklist until he too was blacklisted -- was born Samuel Goldstein in New York City on the Fourth of July in the year 1900. His father, Isidor Goldestein, was variously a coal miner, ...
wrote the original novel
2. Otto Preminger
Actor | Stalag 17
Otto Ludwig Preminger was born in Wiznitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary. His father was a prosecutor, and Otto originally intended to follow his father into a law career; however, he fell in love with the theater in his 20's and became one of the most imaginative stage producers and directors. He was ...
Asked by 20th Century Fox to direct
3. Ben Hecht
Writer | Notorious
Ben Hecht, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's greatest writers, won an Oscar for best original story for Underworld (1927) at the first Academy Awards in 1929 and had a hand in the writing of many classic films. He was nominated five more times for the best writing Oscar, winning (along with writing...
worked on screenplay with Andrew Solt
4. David Raksin
Soundtrack | Captain America: The First Avenger
David Raksin's father Isidore, who both conducted and owned a music store, taught his son to play piano as well as woodwind instruments at an early age. He eventually studied music with Arnold Schönberg, but became by-and-large a self-taught multi-instrumentalist (organ and percussion), as well as ...
created the music
5. Arthur C. Miller
Cinematographer | How Green Was My Valley
Arthur was known as one of Hollywood's most accomplished lighting cameramen, a master at black and white cinematography. Miller began his career at 13, serving as an assistant to cinematographer Fred J. Balshofer. (They co-authored a book entitled "Two Reels and a Crank" in 1967.) Miller ...
director of photography
6. Gene Tierney
Actress | Laura
With prominent cheekbones, luminous skin and the most crystalline green eyes of her day, Gene Tierney's striking good looks helped propel her to stardom. Her best known role is the enigmatic murder victim in Laura (1944). She was also Oscar-nominated for Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Her acting ...
played lead role of Ann Sutton
7. José Ferrer
Actor | The Caine Mutiny
José Ferrer was a Puerto Rican actor and film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the title character in Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). Ferrer was the first Puerto Rican actor to win an Academy Award, and also the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.
In 1912, Ferrer was...
played villain David Korvo
8. Richard Conte
Actor | The Godfather
Richard Conte was born Nicholas Richard Conte on March 24, 1910, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of an Italian-American barber. He held a variety of jobs before becoming a professional actor, including truck driver, Wall Street clerk and singing waiter at a Connecticut resort. The gig as a ...
played the husband: Dr. William Hutton
9. Charles Bickford
Actor | A Star Is Born
American character actor of gruff voice and appearance who was a fixture in Hollywood pictures from the earliest days of the talkies. The fifth of seven children, he was born in the first minute of 1891. He was a boisterous child, and at nine was tried and acquitted for attempted murder in the ...
played Lt James Colton in charge of investgation
10. Eduard Franz
Actor | The Thing from Another World
Born Eduard Franz Schmidt in Milwaukee, WI, this stern-faced character actor had originally planned to be a commercial artist, but a stint with a local theatrical troupe set him on the road to an acting career. In 1925 he moved to New York City and joined up with a Greenwich Village theatrical ...
play role of Martin Avery
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