Lewis Milestone

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Lewis Milestone quotes

I thought, this is one way of getting rich quick - I get the salary and, at most, it couldn't take two or three months. After I'd signed the contract, I found out that in the previous year all they'd had on screen was about seven minutes of film. I spent a year on it.

[on taking over the direction of Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)] "I thought, this is one way of getting rich quick - I get the salary and, at most, it couldn't take two or three months. After I'd signed the contract, I found out that... (more Lewis Milestone quotes)

Lewis Milestone trivia

Won the only ever Best Comedy Director Oscar (for Two Arabian Knights (1927)) at the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929.

Replaced Carol Reed as director of Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) after Reed quit due to not being able to cope with the massive ego of the film's star Marlon Brando. Milestone didn't find Brando any easier to work with and in the end let Brando do as he pleased (when asked by the cameraman why he wasn't watching the f... (more Lewis Milestone trivia)

Books about Lewis Milestone

The Hollywood Professionals Vol. 2: Henry King, Lewis Milestone, Sam Wood book cover The Hollywood Professionals Vol. 2: Henry King, Lewis Milestone, Sam Wood
by Clive and Kingsley Canham and Tony Thomas Denton

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Lewis Milestone (Twayne's filmmakers series) book cover Lewis Milestone (Twayne's filmmakers series)
by Joseph R Millichap

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An index to the films of Lewis Milestone (A research project of the Theodore Huff Memorial Film Society, v. 1, no. 2) book cover An index to the films of Lewis Milestone (A research project of the Theodore Huff Memorial Film Society, v. 1, no. 2)
by Charles Shibuk

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Lewis Milestone filmography

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Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. It's the day before guilty (but insane) murderer, Earl Williams, is due to go to the gallows a...

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The General Died at Dawn

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Cock of the Air

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