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Film rights were bought by RKO. Raft signed in January 1947. According to the New York Times, Raft was to play a newspaper handicapper and William Bendix would play a bookmaker who tries to corrupt the handicapper because he is costing the bookmaker money. [3] The story changed and the female lead went to Marilyn Maxwell. [4]
The film premiered in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on July 25, 1952. [10] It received lukewarm reviews upon its release, [17] which can be summed up in this quote from The New York Times review of August 23, 1952: "...despite some heroics and the monumental rivalry of its principals, a swiftly moving but not an especially distinguished offering ...
[14] The New York Times also found the film unsatisfactory, writing, "Genius is a dress-up box full of second- and third-hand notions. Set mainly in a picturesquely brown and smoky Manhattan in the 1930s, it gives the buddy-movie treatment to that wild-man novelist Thomas Wolfe and his buttoned-up red-penciler Maxwell Perkins."
Maxwell is a 2007 British television drama about the last days of media magnate Robert Maxwell, played by David Suchet, which was originally broadcast on BBC Two. [1] The drama chronicles some of the events prior to Maxwell's mysterious death and the discovery of one of his era's biggest business frauds. Some fictional elements were added.
Maxwell Caulfield (born Maxwell P.J. Newby; 23 November 1959) is a British actor.He has appeared in Grease 2 (1982), Electric Dreams (1984), The Boys Next Door (1985), The Supernaturals (1986), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), Waxwork 2 (1992), Gettysburg (1993), Empire Records (1995), The Real Blonde (1997), The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), and in A Prince for Christmas (2015).
So says Paul Reubens — better remembered by many viewers as offbeat children’s entertainer Pee-wee Herman — at the outset of “Pee-wee as Himself,” as he and director Matt Wolf ...
The NYPD identified the man as Maxwell Azzarello, 37, who is now in critical condition in Cornell burns unit. He has a long history of posting conspiracy theories and railing against the rich and ...
New York Confidential is a 1955 film noir crime film directed by Russell Rouse starring Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Marilyn Maxwell, Anne Bancroft and J. Carrol Naish. [2] Produced by Edward Small for release by Warner Bros., the film was inspired by the 1948 book New York: Confidential! by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer.