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George Litto (December 9, 1930 – April 29, 2019 [1]) was an American film producer and talent agent. His production credits included Robert Altman 's Thieves Like Us (1974), Jonathan Kaplan 's cult film Over the Edge (1979), and three Brian De Palma thrillers, Obsession (1976), Dressed to Kill (1980) and Blow Out (1981).
May 7, 2019 · George Litto, a former talent agent who represented the likes of Robert Altman, Dalton Trumbo and Waldo Salt before producing the Brian De Palma films 'Obsession,' 'Dressed to Kill' and 'Blow...
George Litto. Producer: Obsession. Born in Philadelphia, he attended Temple University and received a B.S in Business. George Litto's career as a highly successful film producer, talent agent, and film executive began at the William Morris Agency in New York City.
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May 7, 2019 · George Litto, a longtime Hollywood talent agent who represented blacklisted writers and collaborated with Melvin Van Peeples and Ossie Davis, has died. He was 88. Litto passed away at...
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- Elliott Gould Got His Part on request.
- We Almost Had A Different Father Mulcahy.
- Two of The Film’S Stars Tried to Get Altman fired.
- Altman’s Son Made More Money from The Movie Than He did.
- The Infamous Shower Scene Needed A Few Distractions.
- The Film Set A Precedent For Profanity.
- The Film’S only Oscar Was For A Script That Barely Appears onscreen.
- A Test Screening Saved The Movie.
- Robert Altman Hated The TV Show.
Elliott Gould was initially asked to play “Duke” Forrest, the Southern soldier who was eventually played by Tom Skerritt. Though he was interested in the film, Gould was worried that he would spend too much time focusing on his accent, and asked for a different role. “I said ‘I’ve never questioned an offer, and I’m really delighted and flattered th...
Altman fought for, and won, a number of things while making M*A*S*H, but apparently the casting of Father Mulcahy wasn’t one of them. According to actor and writer Malachy McCourt (the younger brother of Angela’s Ashesauthor Frank McCourt), he was the original choice for the part, because Altman wanted a “real Irish priest.” Producer Ingo Preminger...
Altman spent a lot of time during the making of M*A*S*Hcultivating his ensemble, directing background extras and bit players to create a kind of mural effect. It worked in the end, but it also annoyed stars Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, who felt they weren’t being given enough attention by their director. Eventually, they approached producer...
For the scene in which Walter “Painless Pole” Waldowski intends to commit suicide, Altman decided that a song called “Suicide Is Painless” was needed, and ultimately asked his son, Michael—who was an aspiring poet at the time—to compose the lyrics. After writing “like a hundred and twelve verses” that he felt were unusable, Michael Altman ultimatel...
For the scene in which the officers ambush “Hot Lips” (played by Sally Kellerman) so they can see her naked in the shower, Altman had to deploy a few distractions. Kellerman had never appeared nude onscreen before, and in early takes of the scene she was dropping to the ground before the point of the moment was even made clear. So Altman had to thi...
According to Altman, M*A*S*Hwas the first R-rated film to ever use the word “f*ck,” but apparently it wasn’t his idea. During second-unit shooting for the football game that comes near the end of the film, actor John Schuck was told to say something “really nasty” to his opponent. Schuck came up with “All right, bub, your f*cking head is coming rig...
The film’s script, by Ring Lardner, Jr., took plenty of liberties with the original Richard Hooker novel, but by the time Altman and the cast got their hands on it, things were even more warped. “If something occurred to us that seemed to work, we would do it,” Altman said. As a result, the final film features very little of Lardner’s dialogue, to ...
According to George Litto, when studio executives first saw the film, they handed Altman “10 pages of notes for cuts and changes they wanted made,” then producer Ingo Preminger arranged a test screening in San Francisco. By the time Hawkeye was stealing the Jeep, the audience was openly applauding the film, and executive Richard Zanuck apparently s...
M*A*S*H was a huge success for Fox—so much so that it spawned a TV seriesbased on the film, which ran for more than a decade. Despite the success of the franchise he helped create, Altman was never a fan of the series. “I wouldn’t even mess around with that television series,” Altman said. “I mean, I’ve never seen one of those episodes all the way ...
Mar 12, 2014 · George Litto won’t be getting his day in court after all — and the talent agent is probably OK with that. CBS’ lawyer James Curry today told an LA Superior Court judge that the network and ...
George Litto, a longtime Hollywood talent agent who represented blacklisted writers and collaborated with Melvin Van Peeples and Ossie Davis, has died. He was 88. Litto passed away at...
