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- We were well into it and had some good material, including the song “Marian, the Librarian,” when Dore Schary approached us. He was then the head of MGM. He wanted us to come to California for one year to make two pictures, The Boy Friend and Stay Away, Joe, the latter a Dan Cushman novel about life on an Indian reservation. I could not r…ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
- But first, Grimes had to go to her Molly Brown audition and meet Dore Schary, the show’s co-producer and director. He was well known to the American public not only as head of production at MGM from 1948 to 1956, but also from being a prominent character in a 1955 episode of I Love Lucy (in which he was supposed to play himself but withdr…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Several days later Dore Schary, the former head of MGM, was interviewed responding, point by point, to Merrick's remarks. What had begun as a little joke had escalated into serious political debate.ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
- And then Dore Schary called me into his office and informed me flatly, “You’re not going to do the picture. Don’t be upset. Jean Simmons is doing the part. It’s all set. You’re out.”ebooks/Reynolds, Debbie/B0089LOHFG EBOK - Debbie Reynolds & Dorian Hannaway.txt
- George Cukor’s letter to Ruth Gordon about my audition for The Actress . I was very excited—until Dore Schary told me I no longer had the part. Courtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciencesebooks/Reynolds, Debbie/B0089LOHFG EBOK - Debbie Reynolds & Dorian Hannaway.txt
- Now Dore Schary, the pipe-smoking crusader Mayer installed to get MGM back on its feet, had the place to himself. Gone was the man who approved a five-hundred-thousand-dollar budget for a single number (the ballet from An American in Paris ), and in came a former screenwriter, an intellectual, angling for “important” pictures. Schary’s un…ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
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- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
- Which of the credits above the roles on this record — director — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.