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...most memorably The Lost Weekend (1945), in which his searing portrait of a desperate alcoholic earned him an Oscar; of cancer; in Torrance, Calif. Once one of the best handgun and rifle marksmen in the British army, the dashing Milland stumbled into acting in minor roles, went to Hollywood and so enjoyed his craft that he abandoned a brief retirement in the early 1960s to take TV and movie character parts almost until his death...
...with its detailed courtroom discus sion of a rape; and Exodus (1960), for which he defied McCarthyist blacklisting by hiring Scenarist Dalton Trumbo; of cancer; in New York City. A successful producer-director in Vienna before coming to the U.S. in 1936, he worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, where his first triumph was the masterly thriller Laura (1944). He also acted on stage and in films, often as a menacing Nazi, a role many of those who had wilted under the "Otto-crat's" frequent tongue lashings regarded as entirely appropriate...
...worked with such leading lyricists as Ted Koehler, Johnny Mercer, E.Y. Harburg and Ira Gershwin. Many of his hits, such as Let 's Fall in Love, Blues in the Night, That Old Black Magic and One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), survived forgettable Broadway and Hollywood musicals to become repertoire standards for gifted interpreters like Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand...
Technicians are adding color to black-and-white classics like Casablanca, making Hollywood's top moviemakers...
...owned by Time Inc.) to assemble an audience of 15 million households for its Cable Value Network. Last month a powerful trio of companies formed a joint venture to put a program called ValueTelevision directly on broadcast airwaves. The participants: a chain of independent stations (Fox Television), a Hollywood production company (Lorimar-Telepictures) and a direct-mail giant (Horn & Hardart, owner of Hanover House). To meet the new challenges, HSN is in the process of branching out from cable to broadcasting by acquiring 14 UHF television stations...