Martin Ritt
Martin Ritt (March 2, 1914 – December 8, 1990) was an American director, producer, and actor, active in film, theatre and television. He was known mainly as an auteur of socially-conscious dramas and literary adaptations, described by Stanley Kauffmann as "one of the most underrated American directors, superbly competent and quietly imaginative."Ritt was an actor-turned-director with the Federal Theater Project and Group Theatre, becoming assistant to Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio. After a promising television directing career was cut short by the Second Red Scare, Ritt made his first film ''Edge of the City'' (1957). His 1958 film ''The Long, Hot Summer,'' based on the works of William Faulkner, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the first of three times the director would be nominated for the honor.
His 1963 film ''Hud'' earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director, and his 1965 John le Carré adaptation ''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'' won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. Two of his subsequent films, ''Sounder'' (1972) and ''Norma Rae'' (1979), were both nominated for Best Picture Oscars. Ritt directed many of the biggest stars of his time, including 13 of them to Academy Award wins or nominations - Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Richard Burton, James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Geraldine Page, Sally Field, Rip Torn, Alfre Woodard and James Garner.
Four of his films (''Edge of the City'', ''Hud'', ''Sounder'', ''Norma Rae'') have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant. Provided by Wikipedia
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Martin Ritt : interviews / edited by Gabriel Miller. by Ritt, Martin, 1914-1990
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The great white hope / Twentieth Century Fox ; screenplay, Howard Sackler ; producer, Lawrence Turman ; director, Martin Ritt.
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Hud, Norma Rae, and The long, hot summer : three screenplays / by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. ; edited, and with an introduction, by Michael R. Frank ; foreword by Martin Ritt. by Ravetch, Irving
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Nuts / Warner Bros. presents ; a Barwood Films/Martin Ritt production ; screenplay by Tom Topor, Darryl Ponicsan, & Alvin Sargent ; produced by Barbra Streisand ; directed by Martin Ritt ; a Barwood Films presentation.
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Hollywood on trial.
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The brotherhood / directed by Martin Ritt ; produced by Kirk Douglas ; written by Lewis John Carlino ; Paramount Pictures ; The Brotherhood Company.
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Murphy's romance / Columbia Pictures ; Fogwood Films Ltd. ; produced by Laura Ziskin ; directed by Martin Ritt ; screenplay by Harriet Frank Jr. & Irving Ravetch.
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Hud / a Paramount release ; a Salem-Dover production ; screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. ; produced by Martin Ritt and Irving Ravetch ; directed by Martin Ritt. by Bernstein, Elmer
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Edge of the city / an MGM release ; produced by David Susskind ; story and screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur ; directed by Martin Ritt.
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Stanley & Iris.
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The front / Columbia Pictures ; a Martin Ritt, Jack Rollins, Charles H. Joffe production ; a Persky-Bright/Devon feature ; written by Walter Bernstein ; produced and directed by Martin Ritt.
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The outrage Metro-Goldwin-Mayer ; a Martin Ritt Production ; screenplay by Michael Kanin ; produced by A. Ronald Lubin ; directed by Martin Ritt.
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The black orchid / a Paramount Picture ; written by Joseph Stefano ; produced by Carlo Ponti and Marcello Girosi ; directed by Martin Ritt.
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Norma Rae / 20th Century Fox ; a Martin Ritt/Rose and Asseyev production ; screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. ; produced by Tamara Asseyev and Alex Rose ; directed by Martin Ritt. by Shire, David
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Awake and sing / KCET ; produced & staged by Norman Lloyd ; screenplay, Clifford Odets ; directors, Norman Lloyd, Robert Hopkins.
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Awake and sing / KCET ; produced & staged by Norman Lloyd ; screenplay, Clifford Odets ; directors, Norman Lloyd, Robert Hopkins.
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Awake and sing / KCET ; produced & staged by Norman Lloyd ; screenplay, Clifford Odets ; directors, Norman Lloyd, Robert Hopkins.
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The Ernest Hemingway film collection.
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The Molly Maguires / Paramount Pictures presents a Tamm production, a Martin Ritt production ; produced by Martin Ritt and Walter Bernstein ; written by Walter Bernstein ; directed by Martin Ritt.
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The spy who came in from the cold / a Paramount picture ; a Salem production ; screenplay by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper ; produced and directed by Martin Ritt.
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