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Daves then wrote, directed and produced Youngblood Hawke (1964) and The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965). He retired after Villa Florita was released. Daves was married to actress Mary Lawrence from 1938 until he died on August 17, 1977.
Apr 28, 2023 · The Estate Sale of Delmer and Mary Lou Daves. Set in their Bel Air family home built in 1938, very little has changed since they first moved in shortly thereafter. It's a true time-capsule collection that showcases how they lived, loved and celebrated a full and beautiful life...
Apr 6, 2024 · He died in 1977 and his children have sold some of his estate in 2023. Daves appears to have been well-regarded but I was not familiar until after noticing many listings were from limitation 840/1,500, I asked the seller who the previous owner was.
Apr 22, 2024 · Delmer Daves was an American writer and director of motion pictures who worked in a number of genres but was best known for his westerns, which include Broken Arrow (1950), The Last Wagon (1956), and 3:10 to Yuma (1957).
Turning director with the classic Destination Tokyo (1943), Daves often wrote and produced his own pictures. Of the many films he made, the westerns he did were especially close to his heart--as a youth he had spent much time living on reservations with Hopi and Navajo Indians.
Jun 15, 2021 · The penultimate Western of Delmer Daves was a film version of part of Frank Harris’s unreliable memoirs, Cowboy. It starred the excellent Glenn Ford again and also (very good casting) New Englander Jack Lemmon as Harris.
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita: Directed by Delmer Daves. With Maureen O'Hara, Rossano Brazzi, Richard Todd, Phyllis Calvert. An English mother leaves husband and two children to follow her Italian lover to a lakeside villa.
