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Book WriterDirector 1922–2010

Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter. Often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. Late in his career, he took up writing, producing and directing for theater. He received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his writing, directing and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon began writing screenplays and radio scripts before turning to producing and directing in television and films. His best-known films include Breakfast…

Also credited on2 works

Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Victor/Victoria

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In the literature8 passages

  • T here once were two men with little in common. Tony Adams was an Irishman whose charm was off the charts. In 1975—and only twenty-two, mind you—he coproduced The Return of the Pink Panther. This movie would turn out to be the first of several films he worked on with both Peter Sellers and director Blake Edwards. Soon bloomed a deep, life…ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt
  • By 1995, Andrews was sixty, long past prime time for Hollywood actresses. More to the point, Blake Edwards, her husband of twenty-seven years, was seventy-three and was no longer a top-of-the-line Hollywood director.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Producer: Blake Edwards, Tony Adams, John Scher; Endemol Theatre Productions, Inc.; PolyGram Ventures, Inc.ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Based on the 1982 Blake Edwards’ film which starred Julie Andrews, Robert Preston and James Garner, Victor/Victoria is the story of a woman (Julie Andrews) who plays a man playing a woman in Paris in the 1930s. Tony Roberts is Toddy the aging self-called “drag queen” whose idea it is to transform Victoria into Victor, a Polish count and f…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • After a period of Hollywood indifference and neglect, Blake Edwards, who had recently married Julie Andrews after her split with Tony Walton, stepped in and wrote a third version of the screenplay, again using the Raphaelson version as a starting point, and without new songs. 74 MGM committed itself to the project in August 1969, with Edw…ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt
  • I had gone out to California to meet with Michael Kidd, who was supposed to do choreography, and Blake Edwards. They showed me the mock-up of the part of Hungary they were going to film in. I met with Julie. And on the way back to the airport, before I left, I asked Blake, “Is there any chance of this falling through?” He said, “With Juli…ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt

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