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Several of Allied's films were financially and critically successful, including Whistle Down the Wind (1961). However, there were some financial failures, such as Life for Ruth (1962), and the company was unable to sustain its existence.
- America and The War Effort
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- America's Wartime Movie Marketplace
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Hollywood's wartime role can only be examined and understood in terms of the larger social, economic, and material conditions at home during that era, as well as the military developments overseas. The retooling of the motion picture industry that accompanied the nation's entry into the war was simply one facet of a massive conversion of American i...
On 17 December 1941, ten days after Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt appointed Lowell Mellett—an ardent New Dealer and Roosevelt aide who was a former editor of Scripps-Howard's Washington Daily News—to serve as coordinator of government films, acting as a liaison between the government and the motion picture industry and advising Hollywood in its support o...
Films, stage shows, and other diversions it provided for the men and women in uniform, both at home and abroad, were also a significant aspect of Hollywood's support of the war effort. This was yet another area where the government, the military, and the movie industry developed an efficient and successful working relationship. The crux of Hollywoo...
While Hollywood and the government cooperated to create the world's largest distribution-exhibition circuit during the war, the domestic motion picture market underwent a massive war-induced transformation of its own. With each successive year during the war, as American theaters set new box-office records, the very nature of movie exhibition chang...
Hollywood's foreign trade during World War II focused primarily on the United Kingdom and Latin America, just as it had in 1940-1941. This orientation did not prove to be a serious liability, however, owing to the tremendous wartime moviegoing boom in England once the tide was turned against the Nazis in 1941-1942. In fact, Hollywood's wartime reve...
As mentioned earlier, Hollywood's response to the 1940 consent decree ideally positioned the Big Five for the ensuing war boom. Selling in blocks of five and holding regular trade shows encouraged the major studios to scale back B-movie production and to concentrate on high-end product, and thus they were well prepared for the war-induced market su...
The motion picture industry, like most major industries in the United States, entered the war era with a firm commitment to increase efficiency and productivity. The unions and guilds made no-strike pledges, and for the most part these were honored from late 1941 until 1945. In Hollywood, which was almost completely unionized by 1941, organized lab...
Allied began early development at producer Graham King’s GK Films and he took the project over to Paramount for backing. The budget for Allied was $85 million and Paramount was to co-finance with New Regency.
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Several of Allied's films were financially and critically successful, including Whistle Down the Wind (1961). However there were some financial failures, such as Life for Ruth (1962), and the company was unable to sustain its existence.
These films came into being and were financially successful because they temporarily relieved the fears aroused by a recognition of social and political conflicts. They helped to discourage any action which might otherwise follow upon the pressure generated by living with these conflicts.
Broidy needed a successful movie to put Allied back on its feet financially. Noting that producer Hal Wallis had said that the only “sure thing” in Hollywood was an Elvis Presley picture, Broidy made an offer to Abe Lastfogel, who represented Presley at the William Morris Agency.
Nov 23, 2016 · Allied is the story of Canadian RAF intelligence officer Max Vatan (played by Brad Pitt), who encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour (Marion Cotillard) on a deadly mission in...
