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Michael Gruskoff; Información personal; Nacimiento: 27 de agosto de 1935 (88 años) Nueva York, Estados Unidos: Nacionalidad: Estadounidense: Información profesional; Ocupación: Productor de cine y productor
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Michael Gruskoff is an American film producer. Life and career [ edit ] Born to a Jewish family, [1] Gruskoff started his career in the New York mailroom of the William Morris Agency , and then took a job with Creative Management Associates , where he represented Dennis Hopper , Peter Fonda , Robert Redford , Natalie Wood , Faye ...
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Producer: Silent Running. Originally from New York, Michael Gruskoff began his career at the William Morris mail room in 1958. By 1963 Michael was an agent at Creative Management Associates (CMA) based in Los Angeles.
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- August 27, 1935
- Michael Gruskoff
It tells a mythic story about Indian life on the Great Plains before the arrival of white people to the region. Film director/writer Michael Cimino and producer Michael Gruskoff attempted to adapt Manfred's novel to film, but the project, which was in development at Universal in 1970, was tabled in 1971
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Late in the Prohibition era, Claire is an American living in Tijuana, Mexico. After her husband, who owned a dive bar, dies, she wants to return to the United States. Walker Ellis, a loser with whom she has long been having an affair, agrees to help wind up her business in Tijuana, which includes smuggling a last truckload of illegal Mexican immigr...
Development
Katz and Huyck at the time were best known for writing American Graffiti. Before that film came out they were struggling writers, looking for an original project. While Huyck was in the Army reserves, Katz was in the UCLA library "looking for anything for an idea." She came across an article in American Mercury magazine about rumrunners operating off Ensenada during prohibition and, feeling that it had never been used for a film before, started researching the period. When Huyck got out of th...
Director
The writers wanted Steven Spielberg to direct and he was interested but had made a commitment to do Jaws. Eventually Stanley Donen signed.Donen's fee was $600,000, Grusskoff's was $400,000. Katz said, "our reaction was, Stanley Donen seems so bizarre for this kind of film! Then we realized he's the ideal director because he is really a romantic director, and he can do this kind of character stuff and the kind of humor that the film has." Some changes to the script were made. "Stanley wanted v...
Casting
The writers said their inspiration for the lead characters were Jean Harlow, Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy. It took 18 months for Donen to cast the film. Donen says this was due to problems with billing, pay and the fact the woman's role was central made it difficult to find male stars to play opposite her. "We thought the idea of three stars was a terrific notion because it would make Lucky Ladyvery salable and very castable," said Katz. "Ironically, it made it salable, but casting turned ou...
This film was also released under the following titles: 1. Abenteurer auf der Lucky Lady- West Germany 2. Belali sevgili- Turkey 3. I tyheri kyria- Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title) 4. In 3 sul Lucky Lady- Italy 5. Los aventureros de Lucky Lady- Spain 6. Oh, vilket sjöslag!- Sweden 7. Os aventureiros de Lucky Lady- Brazil (TV title) 8. Tre ...
"Empty Bed Blues" - Written by J.C. Johnson, Performed by Bessie Smith"Ain't Misbehavin'" - Music by Fats Waller and Harry Brooks, Lyrics by Andy Razaf, Performed by Burt Reynolds"A Hot Time in the Old Town" - Music by Theo. A. Metz, Lyrics by Joe Hayden, Performed by Bessie Smith" (Get) While the Getting is Good" - Written by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Performed by Liza MinnelliA month before the release of the film, Bantam Books issued a tie-in novelization of the screenplay by historical fiction writer Cecelia Hollandunder the pseudonym "Julia Rood." It achieved some minor notoriety at the time for retaining the original ending, which reflected the earlier draft script from which Holland worked.
Lucky Lady at IMDbLucky Lady at Rotten TomatoesMichael Gruskoff es un productor de cine estadounidense.
Sección nueva en fase beta. Michael Gruskoff es un personaje nacido en el año 1935 en Estados Unidos conocido por Cómo se hizo: El jovencito Frankenstein, Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies, Mel Brooks: Haciendo ruido y Remembering Gene Wilder.
