Word: kramer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Salesman Robert Whitney, head of the National Sales Executives organization, heard about this graveside elegy to the American traveling man, he rushed off to see Producer Stanley Kramer. Such a gloomy fadeout, Whitney argued, would horrify the peppy, up-to-the-minute salesman of today. Kramer would not tamper with the grim plot of his forthcoming film version of Death of a Salesman. But he offered a sop. Columbia would make a special ten-minute short for Whitney's organization, showing that salesmen these days are not like Willy Loman at all, but happy, well-trained technicians...
Last week a script was all ready for shooting, and Kramer had agreed to narrate it himself. When he turns it over to Whitney, for showing at schools and sales meetings, he will have made a neat little sale himself. Thousands of salesmen (and potential movie customers) will hear Producer Kramer explain: "Death of a Salesman was a great play. It will be a great picture...
...Many of the textbooks are going up," Mark Kramer of the Harvard Book Store said yesterday. "It may be an increase in the price of labor and materials. It is mainly the price of paper...
After the death of Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt said she would have to wait a while before deciding who, if anyone, should put the President's life story on film. Last week she picked the man: Producer Stanley Kramer, who had become one of Mrs. Roosevelt's favorites with movies like The Men and Cyrano de Bergerac. When production begins in another two years or so, Mrs. Roosevelt will advise on the screen play and share in the proceeds. Likeliest scripter: Roosevelt Biographer Robert Sherwood...
Pickup (Hugo Haas; Columbia] introduces Hollywood's most promising new moviemaker since Producer Stanley (Champion) Kramer. The film, a simple drama with a high entertainment return on the $83,000 it cost to make, was produced, directed and co-scripted by Czech-born Hugo Haas, 49, who also plays the leading role...