Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Producer of the Year: Stanley (The Men) Kramer...
Cyrano de Bergerac (Stanley Kramer; United Artists) is Hollywood's first attempt to film Edmond Rostand's classic verse comedy about the monstrous-nosed swordsman-poet who wooed his adored Roxane for another man. If it is not all that admirers of the play might wish, it is more than most of them might dare to expect. Producer Stanley (The Men) Kramer keeps faith with the unabashedly romantic spirit of the original, and Actor Jose Ferrer, who gave Broadway its most recent (1946) production of the play, is the very embodiment of Rostand's self-sacrificing, self...
...Stanley Kramer is an intense young man who learned moviemaking from the ground up, as studio handyman, film cutter, script editor, scenario writer, wartime writer-director of Signal Corps training films. At 32, just out of the Army, he got together a team of bright young moviemakers, wangled financing, started in as an independent producer. Short of money, he slashed costs by rehearsing his actors thoroughly before the cameras began to grind. The B-budget results he turned out -Champion, Home of the Brave, The Men-rated A with both critics and the ticket-buying public, made Hollywood...
Last week Kramer teamed up with shrewd Sam Katz, cofounder of the Balaban & Katz theater chain, onetime vice president of Paramount Publix, longtime M-G-M executive, to form the Stanley Kramer Co., Inc. As president and executive producer, Stanley Kramer will contribute his abundant talent and his team. Board Chairman Katz will contribute his distribution know-how and $2,000,000. Once the company really gets rolling, said President Kramer, it will produce and distribute some 20 films a year...
...Currently at home in Los Angeles counting the $70,000 he earned last year when Kramer took the starch out of him in 93 of their 121 matches...