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Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer. [1] Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose , his most critically successful book, for the novel The Poseidon Adventure , primarily through the 1972 film ...
Dec 7, 2013 · Produced by Arthur Freed, directed by Vincente Minnelli and Fred Zinnemann (uncredited), with cinematography by George J. Folsey; Paul and Pauline Gallico were responsible for the story, with Robert Nathan and Joseph Schrank writing the screenplay.
In 1943, he had fallen in love with Paul and Pauline Gallico's story of a soldier who meets and marries a girl during a whirlwind two-day leave, so MGM picked up the rights for $50,000.
Never Take No for an Answer is a 1951 British–Italian drama film directed by Maurice Cloche and Ralph Smart and featuring Denis O'Dea, Vittorio Manunta, Guido Celano and Nerio Bernardi. It is based on Paul Gallico 's 1951 story The Small Miracle, about an Italian orphan boy who goes to visit the Pope. [2] Plot.
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A small-town soldier, Joe Allen (Robert Walker), on a 48-hour leave, meets Alice Mayberry (Judy Garland) in crowded Pennsylvania Stationwhen she trips over his foot and breaks the heel off one of her shoes. Although it is Sunday, Joe gets a shoe-repair shop owner to open his store and repair her shoe. Alice asks Joe where he is going, and he says h...
Casting
Garland had asked MGM to star in a straight dramatic role, wanting a break from the strenuous schedules of musical films. Although the studio was hesitant, the producer, Arthur Freed, eventually approached Garland with the script for The Clock after buying the rights to the short unpublished story by Pauline and Paul Gallico.
Filming
Fred Zinnemann was initially hired to direct the film. After about a month, he was removed at the request of Garland as there was a lack of chemistry between the two and early footage was disappointing. When Freed asked who Garland wanted to direct the film, she requested Vincente Minnelli who had just directed Garland the previous year in Meet Me in St. Louis, which was a tremendous success. Moreover, she and Minnelli had become romantically involved during the principal photography of Meet...
Locations
According to Robert Osborne in his introduction of this film on Turner Classic Movies, because World War II had not yet ended, filming on location was not considered cost effective or easy. Though the film was shot entirely on the MGM lot in Culver City, Minnelli's attempt to make New York City believable was extensive. In Studio 27, Minnelli had a reconstructed set of the Waiting Room at Penn Station built at a reported cost of $66,450. Reportedly, the only difficult aspect of the set was th...
Released on May 25, 1945, The Clock made a respectable profit but it was not as successful as Meet Me in St. Louis, released the previous year. The movie was well received by critics who favorably noted Garland's transformation into a mature actress. The New York Times; "A tender and refreshingly simple romantic drama. The atmosphere of the big tow...
Released on VHS in the early 1990s, the film went out of print for several years until a limited colorized version of the film was released. Warner Home Video then released it on DVDin February 2007. It was then rereleased on Warner Archive Blu-Ray, restored from the original nitrate print on June 7, 2022.
The Clock at the American Film Institute CatalogThe Clock at IMDbThe Clock at the TCM Movie DatabaseThe Clock at AllMoviePauline Gallico is known for The Clock (1945), Assignment: Paris (1952) and Never Take No for an Answer (1951).
Jun 4, 2022 · The Clock (1945) Released: 25 May 1945. Rated: Passed. Runtime: 90 min. Director: Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann. Genre: Drama, Romance. Cast: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason. Writer (s): Robert Nathan, Joseph Schrank, Paul Gallico.
