126-529: Dassin may refer to: Jules Dassin (1911–2008), American film director, producer, writer and actor Joe Dassin (1938–1980), American-born French singer-songwriter. Lev L. Dassin (born 1965) was the acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York . [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Dassin . If an internal link intending to refer to
252-440: A Marine Corps story by Alma Rivkin (possibly a typo for Allen Rivkin ) starring Philip Dorn . The film was presumably abandoned. In April 1942, it was reported that Dassin would be one of eight directors, along with Fred Zinenmann, Fred Wilcox, Charles Lederer , Edward Cahn , Joseph M. Newman and David Miller , to film a sequence for a planned patriotic anthology film at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer titled Now We Are 21 . The film
378-455: A board of trustees , executive officers , and senior administrators . The board of trustees includes approximately thirty members, with a chair and two vice-chairs, and is responsible for appointing Juilliard's president and managing the school's business affairs. Executive offices include the offices of the president and provost . Four administrators serve each as dean and director of the dance, music, drama, and preparatory divisions. There
504-672: A British Academy of Film and Television Arts nomination for Best Film from any Source ; and Writers Guild of America Award nominations for Best Written American Drama and The Robert Meltzer Award. In 2007, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States National Film Preservation Board and was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress ' National Film Registry . Dassin's third and final film under his Mark Hellinger Productions contract
630-456: A barber. His parents were both Jewish immigrants from Odessa , Russian Empire (now Ukraine ). Julius had seven siblings, including four brothers, Louis C., Benjamin, Irving and Edward; and three sisters. In 1915, when Julius was three years old, the Dassin family moved to Harlem, New York. He attended public grammar school where he received his first acting role in a school play. Julius
756-631: A concert violinist and a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music . Beginning in 1934, Julius spent three years studying dramatic technique in Europe. He spent time in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Russia, England, Czechoslovakia, Portugal, Switzerland and Greece, working odd jobs to sustain himself. After returning from Europe in 1936, Dassin joined the Children's Theatre, a division of
882-625: A congressional hearing. Instead, his name had been mentioned a number of times, at various hearings of the United States House of Representatives House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and by different witnesses, some as early as 1947. He was also linked to several Communist-front organizations. On October 22, 1947, while Dassin was still working on The Naked City , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) chief supervisor and executive producer James Kevin McGuinness testified before
1008-470: A contract. Dassin connected best with Darryl F. Zanuck and opted to sign with 20th Century-Fox Film. In addition to Busman's Holiday , he was tied to two other film projects in the spring of 1948, both involving actress Paulette Goddard at 20th Century-Fox. The first was to be a film adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre 's latest novel and recently opened Broadway hit The Respectful Prostitute , for which Goddard and actor Burgess Meredith had negotiated
1134-563: A copy of Gerald Kersh 's novel Night and the City and rushed him to England to make the film unhindered by the HUAC hearings. Night and the City , later released in mid-1950, was filmed entirely on location in London between July and October 1949 and starred Richard Widmark , Gene Tierney , Googie Withers , Hugh Marlowe and Mike Mazurki . Dassin was already unofficially blacklisted during
1260-492: A graduation rate of 94%. Of the undergraduate degrees, 87 were in music, 20 in dance, and nine in drama. The school conferred 132 Master of Music Degrees and eight Master of Fine Arts Degrees in drama. Juilliard has made efforts to diversify its student body and program. In 2001, the conservatory introduced a Jazz Studies Program, which Wynton Marsalis currently directs. The school launched an Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB) initiative in 2018, which includes
1386-769: A half months of location shooting, from June to August 1947. 107 different locations were shot in New York City, and to distract the crowd and keep them looking natural, Dassin hired a juggler to draw their attention away from the cameras. Dassin, Hellinger and associate producer Buck worked with several of the same cast and crew members from Brute Force on The Naked City , including actors Howard Duff, Ralph Brooks and Chuck Hamilton, assistant director Fred Frank, cinematographer William H. Daniels , art director John F. DeCuir , set decorator Russell A. Gausman and composer Miklós Rózsa. The film also starred Barry Fitzgerald , Don Taylor and Dorothy Hart . After overseeing
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#17328007840561512-529: A live audition, sometimes with additional callbacks. After auditions, the school invites select applicants to meet with a program administrator. Admission to the Juilliard School is highly competitive, as it ranks among the most selective schools in the United States. In 2007, the school received 2,138 applications for admission, of which 162 were admitted for a 7.6% acceptance rate. For
1638-566: A package deal, but things fell through. Irving Rapper ultimately directed the film at Columbia Pictures. During the summer of 1948, Dassin directed Magdalena on Broadway, a play produced by Edwin Lester , which ran for 88 performances from September 20, 1948, to December 4, 1948. By the time that Magdalena closed, Dassin was already back in Hollywood, having signed a contract with Zanuck at 20th Century-Fox. Dassin's inaugural project for
1764-438: A performer's professional career. These include undergraduate and graduate programs in dance, drama, and music. Musicians and performers can also complete Artist Diploma programs in jazz studies, performance, opera, playwriting, and string quartet studies. The Pre-College Division teaches students enrolled in elementary, junior high , and high school. The Pre-College Division is conducted every Saturday from September to May in
1890-534: A promissory document that he would never work for a rival Hollywood studio. In a later interview conducted in December 1946, Dassin revealed that he was ashamed of some of the directorial duties he was forced to accept while at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Dassin had hoped to return to work on the New York stage but instead took a thirteen-month voluntary hiatus from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, filling his time by reading books on
2016-560: A proper directorial job, Dassin was released from his RKO Radio Pictures contract. Dassin returned to radio work in Hollywood, presenting his previously adapted Gogol story The Overcoat for a repeat performance on The Kate Smith Hour , this time starring Henry Hull , which was broadcast live on January 3, 1941. He was also one of the several actors who formed the Actors' Laboratory Theatre . Wanting to prove that he could direct motion pictures, Dassin approached Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in
2142-703: A second-year extension and receive an Artist Diploma. The Andrew W. Mellon Artist Diploma Program for Theatre Directors was a two-year graduate fellowship that began in 1995 (expanded to three years in 1997); this was discontinued in the fall of 2006. The Music Division is the largest of the school's divisions. Available degrees are Bachelor of Music or Diploma, Master of Music or Graduate Diploma , Artist Diploma and Doctor of Musical Arts . Academic majors are brass , collaborative piano, composition, guitar , harp , historical performance, jazz studies, orchestral conducting , organ , percussion , piano , strings , voice , and woodwinds . The largest music department
2268-1032: A single campus at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts , comprising numerous studio rooms, performance halls, a library with special collections, and a dormitory . It has one of the lowest acceptance rates of schools in the United States. With a total enrollment of about 950 students, Juilliard has several student and faculty ensembles that perform throughout the year, most notably the Juilliard String Quartet . Juilliard alumni have won 105 Grammy Awards , 62 Tony Awards , 47 Emmy Awards , and 24 Academy Awards , including two alumni with EGOTs . Musicians from Juilliard have pursued careers as international virtuosos and concertmasters of professional symphony orchestras . Its alumni and faculty include more than 16 Pulitzer Prize and 12 National Medal of Arts recipients. In 1905,
2394-609: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dassin&oldid=1094591378 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Jules Dassin Julius " Jules " Dassin ( / ˈ d æ s ɪ n , d æ ˈ s ɪ n / DASS -in, dass- IN ; December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008)
2520-610: A story given to him by Dassin in the New York Daily News ; nearly twenty years later, the two would work together in Hollywood. On July 11, 1933, Julius' older brother Louis was arrested in Meriden, Connecticut when he confessed to the theft of $ 12,000 from the Puritan Bank and Trust Company, where he worked as a teller and treasurer. On September 10, 1933, when he was 21 years old, Julius married Beatrice Launer,
2646-565: A task force and provides workshops for all faculty and staff. Student Diversity Initiatives provide students forums and activities to educate the community on diversity, internationalism, culture and social justice. In the same year, Alicia Graf Mack , who previously danced with the Dance Theatre of Harlem , became the school's first black dance director. The school has recently invested in funding for minority students and schoolchildren to address inequalities. However, some have criticized
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#17328007840562772-693: A wheelchair. Peter's character in Secrets in the Dark was to be rewritten as a paraplegic, but the film was instead permanently shelved. When Secrets in the Dark was first postponed in early April 1944, Dassin started acting in night plays at the Actors' Laboratory Theatre as part of the War Charities benefits. The first play in which he acted was Night Lodging , followed by The Lower Depths . In May 1944, Dassin teamed up with Arthur Lubin to set up
2898-440: Is Juilliard's string department, followed by the piano department. The collaborative piano, historical performance, and orchestral conducting programs are solely at the graduate level; the opera studies and music performance subprograms only offer Artist Diplomas. The Juilliard Vocal Arts department now incorporates the former Juilliard Opera Center. The school's non-degree diploma programs are for specialized training to advance
3024-753: Is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City . Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became the Juilliard School, named after its principal benefactor Augustus D. Juilliard . The school is composed of three primary academic divisions: dance, drama, and music, of which the last is the largest and oldest. Juilliard offers degrees for undergraduate and graduate students and liberal arts courses, non-degree diploma programs for professional artists, and musical training for pre-college students. Juilliard has
3150-661: Is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), with its last reaffirmation in 2020. Juilliard admits both degree program seekers and pre-college division students. The latter enter a conservatory program for younger students to develop their skills; All applicants who wish to enroll in the Music Advancement Program, for the Pre-College Division, must perform an audition in person before members of
3276-755: Is an additional director for the jazz program. Other academic subdivisions include the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts and Lila Acheson Wallace Library. The vice president holds the position of chief advancement officer and manages the development of the school. Other administrative areas include the chief operating officer and corporate secretary, the public affairs office, and enrollment management and student development. The Juilliard School has ties with higher education institutions such as Barnard College , Columbia University , and Fordham University and has associations with Nord Anglia Education for primary and secondary education since 2015. The school
3402-638: Is one of the world's largest collections of Steinway and Son's pianos in the space of concert halls and practice rooms. Pipe organs at Juilliard include those by Holtkamp (III/57, III/44, II/7), Schoenstein (III/12), Flentrop (II/17), Noack (II/3) and Kuhn (IV/85), which are located in various practice rooms and recital halls. The strings department allows students to borrow valuable historic stringed instruments for special concerts and competitions. There are more than 200 such stringed instruments, including several by Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù . The Lila Acheson Wallace Library
3528-523: Is the main library at Juilliard that holds study scores, performance and sound recordings, books, and videos. The school's archives include manuscript collections with digitized holographs . The library has over 87,000 musical scores and 25,000 sound recordings. The Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections features the Igor and Soulima Stravinsky Collection, the Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale Collection, and
3654-714: Is unknown which, or if a studio bought out Dassin's remaining one-picture deal, though news reports hinted towards Universal-International Pictures or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In late December 1947, before Bogart, Selznick and Marie had decided upon continuing the Mark Hellinger Productions firm, Dassin took the opportunity of his non-exclusive contract to partner with stage actor and producer Luther Adler in an independent film venture. Adler had recently purchased Jack Iams' novel Prophet by Experience in September 1947 and hired Ben Hecht to adapt it and write
3780-543: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . In September 1943, after several months without a project, Dassin took over the directorial duties on a comedy film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost . Original director Norman Z. McLeod had departed after five weeks of shooting, following a clash with producer Arthur Field and the cast, which included Charles Laughton , Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien . The film finished shooting in December 1943 and
3906-621: The Big Five American Orchestras and half of the New York Philharmonic . Juilliard's endowment nearly tripled over the 1980s, reaching a quarter billion in the mid-1990s. Despite high tuition, on average, over 90 percent of accepted students ended up attending the school. In 1999, the Juilliard School was awarded the National Medal of Arts and became the first educational institution to receive
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4032-601: The Eugène Ysaÿe Collection. The school acquired the Juilliard Manuscript Collection in 2006, which includes autograph scores, sketches, composer-emended proofs and first editions of major works by Mozart , Bach , Beethoven , Brahms , Schumann , Chopin , Schubert , Liszt , Ravel , Stravinsky , Copland , and other composers of the classical music canon. Many of the manuscripts had been unavailable for generations. Among
4158-868: The Federal Theatre Project during the Great Depression . It was during this time that he joined the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The troupe put on children's plays at the Adelphi Theatre in New York City. During this time, he played the role of Zar in The Emperor's New Clothes in September 1936, and the role of Oakleaf in Revolt of the Beavers , which ran from May 20, 1937, to June 19, 1937. The later play
4284-528: The 1960s and 1970s, include Itzhak Perlman , Yo-Yo Ma , Leontyne Price , Kyung Wha Chung , and Pinchas Zukerman , among others. In the 1950s, the school received international attention when alumni Van Cliburn won the International Tchaikovsky Competition . In 1968, Mennin hired John Houseman to manage the new Drama Division as director and Michel Saint-Denis as associate director and consultant. The School's name
4410-566: The 2000s. In 2006, Juilliard obtained a trove of precious music manuscripts from board chair and philanthropist Bruce Kovner that make up the Juilliard Manuscript Collection. Philanthropist James S. Marcus donated $ 10 million to the school to establish the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at the school in 2010. In 2014, Kovner gave $ 60 million for the Kovner Fellowship Program to provide expenses for exceptionally gifted students. On September 28, 2015,
4536-510: The Actors' Laboratory Theatre. The production, which unfolds a narrative of a girl's 18th birthday, was staged at the Phoenix Theater starring actress Karen Morley . The cast also included Howard Duff , Jocelyn Brando and Don Hanmer . In August 1946, it was reported that Dassin had been signed to direct the film noir Repeat Performance for Eagle-Lion Films , through a loan-out arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The picture
4662-580: The Arts (CIA), formerly called the Music Technology Center, at the Juilliard School was created in 1993 to provide students with the opportunity to use digital technology in the creation and performance of new music. Since then, the program has expanded to include a wide offering of classes such as, Introduction to Music Technology , Music Production , Film scoring , Computers In Performance and an Independent Study In Composition. In 2009,
4788-827: The Dance Division, offered performance opportunities through the Juilliard Dance Theatre (1954–1958) and later the Juilliard Dance Ensemble (founded c. 1960 ), which often collaborated with the Juilliard Orchestra. For many years, the Juilliard Dance Department shared facilities with the School of American Ballet .{sfn|Olmstead|1999|pages=194–215}} In 1957, after two years of deliberation,
4914-447: The Dark (originally announced as Strangers in the Dark and The Outward Room ). The motion picture was based on Millen Brand 's novel The Outward Room and from the existing play version The World We Make , which had been adapted by Sidney Kingsley . The plot was that of a middle-class girl who escapes from an insane asylum and develops a love affair with a blue collar steel worker, and in turn overcomes her phobias. The property
5040-477: The Dark was to start shooting on February 20, 1944, with cinematographer Robert Planck , but was pushed back to early March 1944 due to production delays. On April 1, 1944, Peters was admitted into Santa Monica Hospital for abdominal pain and underwent major surgery. Her recovery took several months, postponing the films' production indefinitely. Reports varied as to how much footage was shot; some reported as little as ten-day of filming, while others stated that
5166-933: The Glorya Kaufman Dance Studio, Stephanie P. McClelland Drama Theater, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Drama Studio, the Judith Harris and Tony Woolfson Orchestral Studio, and Edwin and Nancy Marks Jazz Rehearsal Room. Recital halls include the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Paul Recital Hall, and the Morse Recital Hall. The building also houses the Alice Tully Hall , where the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center performs. Adjacent to
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5292-420: The HUAC. He described an incident at MGM in 1941, shortly after Dassin had joined the studio, when an attempt was made to halt the production of Tennessee Johnson , a biographical picture about the life of former U.S. President Andrew Johnson . McGuinness explained that after the death of the original producer of the picture, J. Walter Ruben , he took over the production as part of his executive function. He
5418-517: The Hollywood Reporter's 2022 listing of the top-ranked music schools in the world, Juilliard ranked fourth. The Juilliard School enrolled 492 full-time undergraduates, 114 part-time undergraduates and 374 graduate students as of the 2019–2020 school year. Women made up 47% of all the students enrolled. The retention rate for that academic year was 94%. That same year, Juilliard awarded 116 Bachelor's Degrees and 140 Master's Degrees and had
5544-654: The Institute of Musical Art (IMA), Juilliard's predecessor institution, was founded by Frank Damrosch , a German-American conductor and godson of Franz Liszt , on the premise that the United States did not have a premier music school and too many students were going to Europe to study music. Chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York , the institute became one of first endowed music schools in
5670-543: The Juilliard Building at Lincoln Center. All students study solfège and music theory in addition to their primary instrument. Vocal majors must also study diction and performance. Similarly, pianists must study piano performance. String, brass and woodwind players, as well as percussionists, also participate in orchestra. The pre-college has two orchestras, the Pre-College Symphony (PCS) and
5796-711: The Juilliard Chinese Student & Scholars Association (J-CSSA), the Juilliard Christian Fellowship (JCF) and the Juilliard Green Club, among others. Juilliard does not have any fraternities or sororities . In the 1980s, Juilliard students assembled an ice hockey team called the Fighting Penguins to compete against a faculty team. The naming of the teams became the first usage of the penguin as
5922-419: The Juilliard School announced a major expansion into Tianjin during a visit by China's first lady, Peng Liyuan , the institution's first such full-scale foray outside the United States. The school opened in 2020 and offers a Master of Music degree program. In May 2017, retired New York City Ballet principal dancer Damian Woetzel was named president, replacing Joseph W. Polisi. From March 2020 through
6048-518: The Juilliard School of Music board announced that the school would relocate from upper Manhattan to the future Lincoln Center . The Lincoln Center would cover the costs for the construction project, but the school would have to instruct exclusively advanced students, introduce a drama program and cut its Preparatory School. Juilliard's new building at Lincoln Center would be designed by Pietro Belluschi with associates Eduardo Catalano and Helge Westermann. The Juilliard School building at Lincoln Center
6174-635: The Juilliard Summer School and Music Education Program, and opened Juilliard's admission to non-Americans. Schuman discontinued the Theory Department and initiated a new curriculum called the Literature and Materials of Music (L&M), which began in 1947–1948, and was based on the assumption that musical theory education "should transfer theoretical knowledge into practical performance." Designed for composers to teach,
6300-529: The Juilliard building is the Samuel B. & David Rose Building, which is the home of the school's Meredith Willson Residence Hall, named after the composer, conductor and Juilliard alumni Meredith Willson . The building consists of student dormitories, faculty suites, and studios for visiting artists. and is also home to the School of American Ballet . Juilliard's leadership and administration consist of
6426-710: The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program after her. Juilliard's longest-serving president Joseph W. Polisi (1984–2017), helped the school modernize by developing educational outreach, formalizing and expanding its music programs, establishing interdisciplinary programs and reforming the school's finances. In 1991, Polisi founded the Music Advancement Program (MAP) to help underrepresented students affected by music education budget cuts throughout public schools in New York . Between 1990 and 1993, individual departments for all instruments and voice were established,
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#17328007840566552-532: The Merideth Wilson Residence Hall was built next to the school, salaries for teachers were increased, and the school hoped to accept fewer people and eventually cut 100 students to allow for more funding. In 2001, the school established a jazz performance training program. By the end of the 20th century, Juilliard had established itself as a prestigious performing arts school. At the time, graduates comprised approximately 20 percent of
6678-675: The Movie Citations of the Month Award for Best Director. Less than a year after its release, Dassin revealed that he did not like the film. In early May 1947, Dassin was announced as the director of Hellinger's next production, The Naked City (originally announced as Homicide ) Dassin planned to push the realism and documentary-style filming technique of the police story flic further by shooting it entirely on location in New York City. The production received full cooperation from New York City's Homicide Squad during its two and
6804-561: The Music Technology Center moved to a new, state of the art facility that includes a mix and record suite and a digital "playroom" for composing and rehearsing with technology. Together with the Willson Theater, the Center for Innovation in the Arts is the home of interdisciplinary and electro-acoustic projects and performances at the Juilliard School. The Juilliard School has about 275 pianos, of which 231 are Steinway grand pianos. It
6930-462: The Past ), under the supervision of producer Irving Asher and starring Conrad Veidt , in the dual roles of twin brothers, and Ann Ayars . Released in early 1942, the film received immediate critical acclaim and was a box office success, with Dassin being compared to Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock. Dassin followed with the romantic comedy The Affairs of Martha (originally announced under
7056-428: The Pre-College Division to thrive, affording its graduates training at the highest artistic level (with many of the same teachers as the college division), as well as their own commencement ceremony and diplomas. In addition to Fuschi, directors of Juilliard's Pre-College Division have included composer Dr. Andrew Thomas . The current director of the Pre-College Division is Yoheved Kaplinsky. The Center for Innovation in
7182-670: The Pre-College Orchestra (PCO). Placement is by age and students may elect to study conducting, chorus, and chamber music. The Pre-College Division began as the Preparatory Centers (later the Preparatory Division), part of the Institute of Musical Art since 1916. The Pre-College Division was established in 1969 with Katherine McC. Ellis as its first director. Olegna Fuschi served as director from 1975 to 1988. The Fuschi/Mennin partnership allowed
7308-660: The Soldier Shows Stock Company, a project to put on plays featuring wounded war veterans at Torney General Hospital in Palm Springs, California. In June 1944, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced that Dassin had been assigned to direct the company's 20th Anniversary film, Some of the Best . The five-reel picture was to include excerpts from prior Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films, spanning 1924–1943, along with wrap-around pieces starring Lewis Stone . Dassin, however, became weary of his directorial duties at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and asked Louis B. Mayer to be released from his exclusive contract. Mayer sternly refused, even after Dassin offered to sign
7434-464: The Things You Are in late 1945, but its original title was restored in time for release in November 1945. It was announced that once Dassin completed the shooting of A Letter for Evie , he would fly to Europe to direct a series of plays sponsored by the Actors' Laboratory Theatre. The plays were to star soldiers as part of war-time moral-building entertainment. Again, he was denied a leave of absence from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and in early August 1945
7560-477: The US, with significant funding provided by philanthropist and banker James Loeb . Damrosch and Loeb's mission was to establish a musical institution with high standards of teaching and learning that would incorporate a unified pedagogy and develop a "true musical culture among all classes". Accordingly, the school would rely on its endowment to ensure the quality of instruction was independent of students' financial status. The Institute of Musical Art opened in
7686-456: The award. In September 2005, Colin Davis conducted an orchestra that combined students from the Juilliard and London's Royal Academy of Music at the BBC Proms , and during 2008 the Juilliard Orchestra embarked on a successful tour of China, performing concerts as part of the Cultural Olympiad in Beijing, Suzhou , and Shanghai under the expert leadership of Maestro Xian Zhang . The school has received various gifts and donations since
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#17328007840567812-492: The beach and working on local plays. On July 30, 1944, Dassin's wife Beatrice gave birth to their third child, daughter Julie. In November 1944, actor Ralph Bellamy approached Dassin to direct The Democrats , a play he was producing on Broadway. The Democrats was written by Melvin Levy and was so co-star Frances Dee . Although the production received good publicity throughout the month of November 1944, it would appear that it never came to fruition, perhaps because Dassin
7938-420: The company and all of its assets in early February 1948. The story properties and actor, director and cinematographer contracts were sold to other studios via the William Morris Agency . This lead Bogart, Lord and Marie to form their own film production company, Santana Productions , and secure a financing and distribution deal with Columbia Pictures with some of the properties they managed to purchase. It
8064-507: The company and honoring the late producers' namesake with the previously planned films in development. However, difficulty lay in finding a new executive producer to head the production; Jerry Wald was first approached but was unable to free himself from his Warner Bros. contract. Robert Lord was then offered the post and freed himself from his Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract to accept the new position. Unfortunately, Hellinger's widow, former actress Gladys Glad Hellinger, decided to liquidate
8190-419: The editing of the film in Hollywood during September and October 1947, Dassin flew back to New York City in early November 1947 to work on the pre-production of the stage play Strange Bedfellows . Unbeknownst to Dassin, Hellinger and Buck wound up re-cutting the film in his absence; the director only finding out at the film's premiere on March 3, 1948, when he saw a highly edited version of his film projected on
8316-410: The faculty and administration and must be between ages 8 and 18. The Juilliard admissions program comprises several distinct steps. Applicants must submit a complete application, school transcripts, and recommendations; some majors also require that applicants submit prescreening recordings of their work, which are evaluated as part of the application. A limited number of applicants are then invited to
8442-442: The fall semester of 2009, the school had an 8.0% acceptance rate. In 2011, the school accepted 5.5% of applicants. For Fall 2012, 2,657 undergraduate applicants were received by the college division and 7.2% were accepted. The 75th percentile accepted into Juilliard in 2012 had a GPA of 3.96 and an SAT score of 1350. A cross-registration program is available with Columbia University where Juilliard students who are accepted to
8568-481: The film was nearly completed. By the time that Peters had recovered in the summer of 1944, Dassin was on a voluntary leave from the studio, so Peters was instead assigned to Keep Your Powder Dry (originally announced as Women in Uniform ) for director Edward Buzzell . When Dassin finally returned to work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in mid-1945, Peters had undergone another series of surgeries (due to an accidental shotgun discharge on January 1, 1945), which put her in
8694-463: The first Pulitzer Prize for Music winner, led the school from 1945 to 1961 and brought about several significant changes to raise the school's academic standards. In 1946, Schuman completely consolidated the Institute of Musical Art and the Juilliard Graduate School to form a single institution and created the Juilliard String Quartet as the school's main quartet-in-residence. During his tenure, Schuman cut down enrollment by more than half, eliminated
8820-407: The first times the HUAC heard of film directors being Communists; up till then, the Committee had concentrated on left-wing writers in the Screen Writers' Guild . Dassin was named as one of the seven directors—along with Frank Tuttle , Herbert Biberman , John Berry , Bernard Vorhaus and Dmytryk himself—who had attended a Communist meeting at Berry's house for the purpose of electing themselves to
8946-431: The former Lenox Mansion, Fifth Avenue and 12th Street, on October 11, 1905. When the school opened, most teachers were European; however, only Americans were allowed to study at the institute. Although orchestras were exclusively male, women made up most of the student population. The school had 467 students in the first year, but the enrollment soon doubled in size over the following years. Five years after its inception,
9072-675: The foundation purchased the Vanderbilt family guesthouse at 49 E. 52nd Street , and established a separate new music school, the Juilliard Graduate School (JGS), in 1924. After much discussion, the Juilliard School of Music was eventually created in 1926 through a merger of the Institute and the Graduate School. The JGS moved from E 52nd Street to 130 Claremont Avenue next to the IMA in 1931. The two schools had
9198-614: The guild's board of directors. Dmytryk explained that, at the time, the Communist Party wanted to get as many people as it could on the board of directors of the Screen Writers' Guild, Screen Actors' Guild, and Screen Directors' Guild in order to eventually control the policy of those guilds, particularly in relation to forging a coalition of the various unions. Juilliard School of Music The Juilliard School ( / ˈ dʒ uː l i . ɑːr d / JOO -lee-ard )
9324-715: The institute moved to 120 Claremont Avenue in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan onto a property purchased from Bloomingdale Insane Asylum near the Columbia University campus. In 1919, a wealthy textile merchant named Augustus D. Juilliard died and left a vast sum of money for the advancement of music in his will, which set up the Juilliard Musical Foundation (JMF) a year later as one of its primary beneficiaries. Under Eugene Noble as executive secretary,
9450-639: The items are the printer's manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony , complete with Beethoven's handwritten amendments, that was used for the first performance in Vienna in 1824; Mozart's autograph of the wind parts of the final scene of The Marriage of Figaro ; Beethoven's arrangement of his monumental Große Fuge for piano four hands; Schumann's working draft of his Symphony No. 2 ; and manuscripts of Brahms's Symphony No. 2 and Piano Concerto No. 2 . The entire collection has since been digitized and can be viewed online. Juilliard consistently ranks as one of
9576-702: The lead. But when Peters suffered a gun shot wound accident on January 1, 1945, Dassin pulled out of the project. Director Edward Cahn was ultimately hired for the job and recast the female lead role with Signe Hasso , successfully completing the picture. Returning to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in May 1945, after thirteen months away from cameras, Dassin was assigned to direct the romantic comedy film A Letter for Evie for producer William H. Wright. The picture began shooting in early June 1945 and included Marsha Hunt, Hume Cronyn , John Carroll , Norman Lloyd and Pamela Britton . A Letter for Evie briefly changed title to All
9702-524: The leads and planned to shoot the entire picture using real locations, from New York City to Florida. Impressed by the success and filming style of The Naked City , Todd approached Dassin to direct Busman's Holiday . Although the picture was ultimately never made, Dassin had become an increasingly sought-after director. On April 3, 1948, he returned to Hollywood to meet with executives from three different studios: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 20th Century-Fox Film and Columbia Pictures, each of which had offered him
9828-477: The more practical-orientated curriculum would provide an overview of the "literature of music". L&M was a reaction against more formal theory and ear training, and as a result did not have a formal structure and allowed for more flexibility. Schuman established the school's Dance Department under Martha Hill 's direction in 1951, intending that students in the program would receive an education in dance , choreography , and music. The department, later renamed
9954-418: The motion picture business, working under Garson Kanin on They Knew What They Wanted (1940) and Alfred Hitchcock on Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941), both starring Carole Lombard and both under the supervision of producer Harry E. Edington. During the filming of Mr. and Mrs. Smith , Dassin's wife Beatrice gave birth to their second child, daughter Richelle. By January 1941, after six months without
10080-536: The news hit that Dassin was free from contractual obligations with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, writer-turned-producer Mark Hellinger scooped up the director, signing him to a non-exclusive three-picture freelance contract with his film production company, Mark Hellinger Productions . The contract gave Dassin the freedom to choose his own three projects to direct at Mark Hellinger Productions, without an expiry date. The producer had an existing financing and distribution deal with Universal-International Pictures , where Dassin
10206-577: The play Medicine Show for producer Martin Gabel , starring Isabel Bonner , Philip Bourneuf and Norman Lloyd . Although it was well received by critics, Medicine Show only ran for 35 performances at the New Yorker Theatre, from April 12, 1940, to May 11, 1940. In June 1940, Dassin was signed to a term contract with Hollywood film studio RKO Radio Pictures as a director. He was immediately assigned as an assistant director to learn
10332-442: The production of Night and the City and was not allowed back on the studio property to edit the film nor oversee the musical scoring. Nevertheless, Zanuck and producer Julian Blaustein hired Dassin to direct one more 20th Century-Fox Film, Half Angel , a Technicolor comedy starring Loretta Young , and scheduled to begin shooting in mid-June 1950. However, after political pressure from Hollywood and Washington, D.C., Dassin
10458-686: The program are able to attend Columbia classes, and vice versa. The program is highly selective, admitting 10–12 students from Juilliard per year. Columbia students also have the option of pursuing an accelerated Master of Music degree at Juilliard and obtaining a bachelor's degree at Barnard or Columbia and an MM from Juilliard in five (or potentially six, for voice majors) years. The school offers courses in dance, drama, and music. All Bachelor's and Master's degree programs require credits from Liberal Arts courses, which include seminar classes on writing, literature, history, culture, gender, philosophy, environment, and modern languages. The Dance Division
10584-541: The same board of directors and president but maintained their distinct identities. Columbia University Professor John Erskine became the first president of the two institutions (1928–1937). Frank Damrosch continued as the Institute's dean, and the Australian pianist and composer Ernest Hutcheson was appointed dean of the Graduate School. Hutcheson later served as president from 1937 to 1945. Juilliard's third president, William Schuman , an American composer and
10710-470: The school scored 100 out of 100 for academic reputation and 69.2 for employer reputation for an overall score of 93.8. Juilliard and the Curtis Institute of Music were the only two American conservatories that made the top 10 in the 2022 QS World Rankings in performing arts. In another report, The Hollywood Reporter ranked the school first among drama schools in the world in 2021. According to
10836-651: The school's lack of diversity in its faculty and curriculum and focus on primarily Western Classical Music . The Juilliard Black Student Union (JBSU) was founded in the fall of 2016. A group of students established the Alliance for Latin American & Spanish Students (ALAS) in the summer of 2018. The political organization, the Socialist Penguins, was created in 2021 to encourage "anti-capitalist and anti-racist discussions." Other Juilliard clubs include
10962-558: The screen rights, hoping to play the leads. Dassin, who had promised to direct, was the only director Goddard wanted. By June 1948, Dassin was set to direct Anna Lucasta at Columbia Pictures, a play written by Philip Yordan about a young prostitute whose family tries to use her to steal money from a potential husband. Goddard was scheduled to play the lead in the film and reportedly insisted that Dassin be hired to direct. During negotiations with 20th Century-Fox, Zanuck considered loaning Linda Darnell to Columbia Pictures as part of
11088-518: The screen. Furthermore, Hellinger died suddenly on December 21, 1947, months before the film was premiered and released to theatres by Universal-International Pictures. Although Dassin was unhappy about the final cut of The Naked City , the film was a huge success (one of the top movies of 1948), and it was nominated for and won several accolades, including Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White , an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story ;
11214-403: The screenplay. The story dealt with a hermit who is taken out of seclusion by a magazine writer, and who has a unique set of experiences in the outside world. Adler, who was solely to act as producer in his new film production company, approached Dassin to direct the picture and negotiations were underway for a financing and distribution deal with Columbia Pictures. For reasons unknown, the film
11340-422: The signing of an exclusive five-year contract in early November 1941. Dassin was promoted from the short story department to the feature film department by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at the same time as Fred Zinnemann and Fred Wilcox . His feature film debut at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the low-budget spy thriller Nazi Agent (originally announced under the titles Salute to Courage , House of Spies and Out of
11466-474: The spring 2021 semester, the school switched to online classes and suspended live performances in response to the COVID-19 pandemic . In June 2021, members of the student group The Socialist Penguins organized a protest against rising tuition costs after claiming that they "weren't being listened to" when meeting with president and provost about the tuition fees. In September, the school's Evening Division
11592-466: The spring of 1941 offering his services for free. He told the studio that he would direct any film for free; the studio instead offered to pay him to direct a short film. Dassin made his directorial debut with a short film of Edgar Allan Poe 's The Tell-Tale Heart . Filmed in June 1941 and released on October 25, 1941, the success of the picture led to his hasty promotion as a feature film director and
11718-516: The studio was Thieves' Highway (originally announced as Thieves' Market and Hard Bargain ), starring Richard Conte , Lee J. Cobb and Valentina Cortese . In November 1949, the film won the Photoplay Award for Best Picture of the Month. Contrary to an often-cited 1958 Time magazine article, Dassin was not blacklisted because of a single denunciation from a particular witness at
11844-399: The title Once Upon a Thursday ), starring Marsha Hunt and Richard Carlson , and under the supervision of producer Irving Starr . The film was made in early 1942 on a limited budget. When released in mid-1942, the film was a moderate success and again Dassin was highlighted in the reviews. In mid-February 1942, it was reported that Dassin would direct a film titled Men at Sea from
11970-566: The top performing arts schools in the world. Since QS first published its QS World University Rankings for the subject performing arts in 2016, Juilliard held the top spot among academic institution for performing arts for six years. The school dropped its ranking to third place in 2022, falling behind the Royal College of Music and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . As part of Juilliard's ranking criteria for 2022,
12096-400: The well-known pedagogue Renée Longy to teach solfège . Mennin organized several new programs, such as Juilliard's Master Class Program and Doctoral Music Program. Under Mennin, Juilliard's international reputation grew as several alumni won competitive international competitions.{{efn|Notable alumni, who won competitive international and national competitions and led international careers in
12222-498: Was a sponsor of the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions ' Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace , held from March 25–27, 1949, which the HUAC also cited as subversive. In the late spring of 1949, Zanuck called Dassin into his office to warn him that he was on the verge of being blacklisted , but that he still had enough time to make one more movie for 20th Century-Fox. Zanuck gave Dassin
12348-607: Was an American film and theatre director, producer, writer and actor. A subject of the Hollywood blacklist , he subsequently moved to France, and later Greece, where he continued his career. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Screen Directors' Guild . Dassin received a Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Du rififi chez les hommes . He
12474-516: Was an executive board member of the Actors' Laboratory Theatre . The Committee did not assert that the Actors' Lab was Communist, but rather that its board of directors was made up almost exclusively of CPUSA members or Communist sympathizers, including Dassin. Second, he had been a member of the Artists' Front to Win the War—a gathering on October 16, 1942 that the HUAC cited as subversive. Third, Dassin
12600-540: Was approached by theatre producer Mike Todd who was preparing to venture into the film producing business. Todd planned to make a series of low-budget, $ 500,000 pictures and had secured a financing and distribution deal with 20th Century-Fox Film . The first picture in Todd's new deal was Busman's Holiday , an original story based on newspaper accounts of a Bronx bus driver who took off for Florida with his family using his company's bus. Todd cast Joan Blondell as one of
12726-400: Was assigned to direct another romantic comedy, Young Ideas (originally announced as Faculty Row ), under the supervision of producer Robert Sisk . The film was shot from mid-December 1942 to early 1943 and starred Susan Peters , Herbert Marshall and Mary Astor . The film was released in the summer of 1943 and received favorable reviews as a light comedy. In March 1943, Dassin joined
12852-532: Was assigned to direct the romantic comedy thriller (with strong film noir tones), Two Smart People (originally announced as Time for Two ) for producer Ralph Wheelwright . The picture began filming in September 1945 and starred Lucille Ball , John Hodiak and Lloyd Nolan , and was released in late 1946. Following Two Smart People , Dassin would spend more than a year without successfully shooting another film. In March 1946, Dassin and Joseph Losey co-directed Viola Brothers Shore 's stage play Birthday for
12978-487: Was being produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and was to co-star Philip Dorn and John Wayne . Crawford also requested that Ann Ayars, who co-starred in Nazi Agent , be given the second female lead in her film. Dassin was notified of this new assignment on May 19, 1942, and the press reported that he had been promoted to become an "A movie" director. On the first day of shooting, Dassin yelled "cut" while Crawford
13104-499: Was changed to The Juilliard School to reflect its broadened mission to educate musicians, dancers, directors, and actors. The drama department first only trained actors, of which the first class graduated as Group 1 in 1972, but added playwrights and directors programs in the 1990s. Houseman founded The Acting Company in 1972, which allowed Juilliard students to perform and tour throughout the country. Also in 1972, Lila Acheson Wallace donated $ 5 million to Juilliard, which later named
13230-497: Was completed on October 26, 1969, officially opening with a dedication ceremony and concert. With Lincoln Center's prestige came a newly elevated status for the Juilliard School. William Schuman assumed the presidency of Lincoln Center in 1962 and composer Peter Mennin succeeded him. Mennin made substantial changes to the L&;M program—ending ear training and music history, adding performances and composition in class, and hiring
13356-775: Was criticized as strongly communist. He later joined up with the Artef Players, a Yiddish Proletarian Theater company in 1937, serving as an actor, set designer, set builder, stage director and even ticket salesman. Beginning on October 5, 1937, he appeared in Moyshe Kulbak's play The Outlaw , which had been adapted by Chaver Paver at The Artef Theatre He also appeared in Artef Players' Recruits and 200,000 . On November 5, 1938, Dassin's wife Beatrice gave birth to their first child, son Joseph . In October 1939, he acted in Chaver Paver's Clinton Street , which
13482-543: Was developed as a starring vehicle for Susan Peters , newly promoted Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starlet. Gene Kelly was first cast as the male lead in January 1944, though he was replaced by Robert Young in February 1944. Other cast members included Fortunio Bononova , Katharine Balfour , Felix Bressart , Alexander Granach , Peggy Maley , Marta Linden , Morris Ankrum , Sharon McManus and Betty Lawler. Secrets in
13608-423: Was established in 1951 by William Schuman with Martha Hill as its director. It offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts or a Diploma. Areas of study include ballet and modern and contemporary dance, with courses ranging from dance technique and performance to dance studies. Since its inception, the dance program has had a strong emphasis not only on performance but also on choreography and collaboration. The Drama Division
13734-623: Was established in 1968 by the actor John Houseman and Michel Saint-Denis . Its acting programs offer a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Diploma and, beginning in Fall 2012, a Master of Fine Arts . Until 2006, when James Houghton became director of the Drama Division, there was a "cut system" that would remove up to one-third of the second-year class. The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, begun in 1993, offers one-year, tuition-free, graduate fellowships; selected students may be offered
13860-589: Was given a small part but when came time to speak his only line, he fainted due to stage fright. He also learned to play the piano at a young age. During his youth he attended Camp Kinderland , a left-wing Yiddish youth camp. Julius attended Morris High School in the Bronx . He started acting professionally in 1926, at the age of fourteen, with the Yiddish Art Theatre in New York City. On October 13, 1929, newspaper columnist Mark Hellinger printed
13986-520: Was later nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen for his film Never on Sunday , and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for his Broadway production of Illya Darling . Julius Dassin was born in Middletown, Connecticut , on December 18, 1911, to Bertha ( née Vogel ) and Samuel Dassin,
14112-448: Was never exhibited beyond that. He then wrote sketches for radio, at times directing his own radio plays, and became a stage director and producer. In April 1939, Dassin adapted Nicolai Gogol 's story The Overcoat for the CBS variety program The Kate Smith Hour , which starred Burgess Meredith and was broadcast live on April 20, 1939. In early 1940, Dassin staged and directed
14238-732: Was never made. While still in New York City, Dassin was hired by producers John Houseman and William R. Katzell to direct Allan Scott 's play Joy to the World ; a comedy about a ruthless Hollywood producer. The play began rehearsals on January 26, 1948, and opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on March 18, 1948. It would run for 124 performances, until July 3, 1948. The cast included Alfred Drake , Marsha Hunt, Morris Carnovsky , Mary Welch , Lois Hall , Peggy Maley , Myron McCormick , Clay Clement , Bert Freed , Kurt Kasznar and Theodore Newton . In February 1948, Dassin
14364-592: Was performing, which deeply upset the actress and led her to rush into Mayer's office. Dassin was called into Mayer's office and told that his career as a film director was over. To his surprise, Crawford invited the young director to have dinner at her house later that night and the two became dear friends; the next day, Dassin resumed his directorial duty on the film. The film opened to theatres in December 1942 but received mixed opinions from critics who found its pace too slow. After completing Reunion in France , it
14490-400: Was released in the summer of 1944. Between the filming of scenes, Laughton often asked Dassin to play Russian classical songs on the piano, of which both were fond. The Canterville Ghost was very well received by critics and won a Retro Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 2020. In January 1944, producer Edwin H. Knopf selected Dassin to direct the suspense drama Secrets in
14616-582: Was renamed to Juilliard Extension which would broaden to offer programs in person and online. In December of the same year, a $ 50 million gift was given to the school's Music Advancement Program to help students of underrepresented backgrounds. The Juilliard School occupies a single main building, the Irene Diamond Building, in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts , along Broadway and W 65th Street. The Juilliard building contains several large studio rooms and performance venues, such as
14742-462: Was replaced by Richard Sale . On April 25, 1951, film director Edward Dmytryk , one of the " Hollywood Ten " who had been blacklisted in 1947 for refusing to answer questions from the HUAC, had a change of heart and decided to cooperate with the Committee and "name names". In his revised testimony, Dmytryk revealed that the Screen Directors' Guild included seven known Communists. It was one of
14868-500: Was reported that Dassin received a leave of absence from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to act in a stage production of William Shakespeare 's Richard III on Broadway. The play was to be directed by and starring John Carradine , though it is unknown if this production came through. Dassin was also employed by Frank Tuttle as one of the lecturers for Hollywood School for Writers' new film directing class, along with Fred Zinnemann, Irving Pichel and László Benedek . In mid-November 1942, he
14994-769: Was set to direct one of Hollywood's biggest new stars, Burt Lancaster , in a violent prison film noir, Brute Force. With new freedom, and support from executive producer Hellinger and associate producer Jules Buck , Dassin announced that he would shoot the picture using realism and a documentary-style. He also employed a total of thirteen actors with whom he had worked at the Actors' Laboratory Theatre, including Hume Cronyn, Howard Duff, Roman Bohnen , Whit Bissell , Art Smith , Jeff Corey , Sam Levene , Charles McGraw , Will Lee , Ray Teal , Crane Whitley, Kenneth Patterson and James O'Rear. The cast also included noted Hollywood actors Charles Bickford , Yvonne De Carlo , Ann Blyth , Ella Raines and Anita Colby . Brute Force
15120-667: Was shot from March to April 1947 on the Universal-International Pictures lot, with reshoots taking place in early May 1947 to appease objections from the Motion Picture Association of America , shortly before a preview audience. The film, which featured a score composed and conducted by Miklós Rózsa , was released to theatres in July 1947 through Universal-International Pictures; that same month, Cosmopolitan magazine awarded Dassin with
15246-671: Was staged at the Mercury Theatre, after Orson Welles ' troupe had left for Hollywood and the Radio-Keith-Orpheum circuit. Since the pay was poor with Artef Players, Dassin formed a theatre troupe to tour the Borscht Circuit in the Catskills as summer stock. Dassin acted in a movie scripted and directed by Jack Skurnick , which was shown to a small group at a space that Skurnick rented in New York but
15372-450: Was then presented with a petition, signed by Dassin, Ring Lardner Jr. , Donald Ogden Stewart , Hy S. Kraft and Richard Collins , which was addressed to MGM executive vice-president Al Lichtman , demanding that the picture be aborted for political reasons. All five signees were known Communists. The news hit the media quickly. In 1948 and 1949, Dassin's name was connected with at least three Communist-front organizations. First, he
15498-565: Was to be made under the supervision of writer-producer Marion Parsonnet and set to star Franchot Tone , Sylvia Sidney , Constance Dowling and Tom Conway . Unfortunately, disagreements about the budget and script caused the whole production to fall apart and the entire cast and crew resigned. The picture was eventually made with a completely new team a year later. Dassin was finally released from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer once his exclusive five-year contract expired in November 1946. As soon as
15624-599: Was to be produced by B. F. Zeidman and scripted by Peter Ruric from a story by Jerry Schwartz. Actors such as Gene Kelly , Ray McDonald , Virginia O'Brien , James Warren , Tatricia Dane, Johnny Davis and Barry Wilson were to appear in the film, but it was never made. Joan Crawford , one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's biggest stars at the time, watched a private screening of Nazi Agent , after which she rushed to Louis B. Mayer's office insisting that Dassin direct her upcoming World War II drama vehicle , Reunion in France (originally announced simply as Reunion ). The picture
15750-438: Was unable to receive a leave of absence from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In December 1944, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer assigned Dassin to direct the crime-mystery film Dangerous Partners (originally announced as Paper Chase ) for producer Arthur Field. Dassin took over the directorial duties from Fred Zinnemann (who was then suspended from Metro-Goldywn-Mayer for refusing to finish the picture), and had anticipated casting Susan Peters in
15876-1139: Was up in limbo following Hellinger's death. The film production unit had undergone considerable changes in the months prior to Hellinger's passing, including the addition of Humphrey Bogart as vice-president, and the signing of a six-picture financing and distribution deal with David O. Selznick 's Selznick Releasing Organization . Mark Hellinger Productions owned the filming rights to several Ernest Hemingway stories, Forest Rosaire's novel East of Midnight , Arthur Cohn 's screenplay Disbarred , Gordon Macker's screenplay Race Track , Philip G. Epstein 's screenplay Mistakes Will Happen , and Jerry D. Lewis' screenplay Twinkle, Twinkle ; in addition to three films in development: Knock on Any Door , Criss Cross and Act of Violence . Any of these properties may have been picked for Dassin to direct in 1948. The company also held contracts with actors Bogart, Burt Lancaster, Don Taylor and Howard Duff, and with cinematographer William Daniels. Bogart, Selznick and secretary-treasurer A. Morgan Marie announced their plan to continue Mark Hellinger Productions in January 1948, by co-heading
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