All the Fine Young Cannibals | |
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Directed by | Michael Anderson |
Written by | Robert Thom |
Based on | novel The Bixby Girls by Rosamond Marshall |
Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
Starring | Robert Wagner Natalie Wood Susan Kohner George Hamilton |
Cinematography | William H. Daniels |
Edited by | John McSweeney, Jr. |
Music by | Jeff Alexander |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Loew's Inc. [1] |
Release date | September 15, 1960 |
Running time | 112 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,638,000 [2] |
Box office | $1,810,000 [2] |
All the Fine Young Cannibals is a 1960 American drama film directed by Michael Anderson, based on the novel by Rosamond Marshall, starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton and Pearl Bailey. [3] Hamilton said that the film "combined Southern Gothic with a biopic of jazzman Chet Baker." [4]
Two young people in love, musician Chad Bixby and Sarah "Salome" Davis, are forced apart despite the latter's pregnancy. They marry others, but are then brought back together by chance. A downtrodden blues singer mothers Bixby while guiding his career.
All the Fine Young Cannibals was the first film that Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood made together. [5] George Hamilton says that director Vincente Minnelli shot some scenes when Michael Anderson was unavailable, including an ending for the film that was not used. [6]
Wagner's character is loosely based on the jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. [7]
According to MGM records, the film earned $950,000 in the U.S. and Canada, and $860,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $1,108,000. [2]
The film's title was the inspiration for the name of the musical group Fine Young Cannibals. [8]
Natalie Wood was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and successfully transitioned to young adult roles.
Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool".
George Stevens Hamilton is an American actor. His notable films include Home from the Hill (1960), Where the Boys Are (1960), Angel Baby (1961), By Love Possessed (1961), A Thunder of Drums (1961), Light in the Piazza (1962), Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), The Victors (1963), Looking for Love (1964), Your Cheatin' Heart (1964), Viva Maria! (1965), Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! (1967), Jack of Diamonds (1967), The Power (1968), Evel Knievel (1971), The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), Once Is Not Enough (1975), Love at First Bite (1979), Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981), The Godfather Part III (1990), Doc Hollywood (1991), Once Upon a Crime (1992), 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997), Hollywood Ending (2002), and The Congressman (2016). For his debut performance in Crime and Punishment U.S.A. (1959), Hamilton won a Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for a BAFTA Award. He has received one additional BAFTA nomination and two Golden Globe nominations.
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Fine Young Cannibals (FYC) were an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1984 by former The Beat band bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox with singer Roland Gift. Their self-titled 1985 debut album contained "Johnny Come Home" and a cover of "Suspicious Minds", two songs that were top 40 hits in the UK, Canada, Australia and Europe. Their 1989 album, The Raw & the Cooked, topped the UK, US, Australian and Canadian album charts, and contained their two Billboard Hot 100 number ones: "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing".
Robert John Wagner Jr. is an American actor of stage, screen, and television. He is known for starring in the television shows It Takes a Thief (1968–1970), Switch (1975–1978), and Hart to Hart (1979–1984). He later had a recurring role as Teddy Leopold in the TV sitcom Two and a Half Men (2007–2008) and made twelve guest appearances (2010–2019) as Anthony DiNozzo Sr. in the police procedural NCIS.
Susanna "Susan" Kohner is an American retired actress who worked in film and television. She played Sarah Jane in Imitation of Life (1959), for which she was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award.
Michael Joseph Anderson was an English film and television director. His career spanned nearly 50 years across three countries, working at various times in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. His most critically and commercially successful works include the World War II film The Dam Busters (1955), the dystopian sci-fi film Logan's Run (1976), and the comedy adventure epic Around the World in 80 Days (1956), which won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Picture.
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The 32nd Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 4, 1960, at the RKO Pantages Theatre, to honor the films of 1959.
The 20th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1962, were held on March 5, 1963.
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Family Classics is a Chicago television series which began in 1962 when Frazier Thomas was added to another program at WGN-TV. Thomas not only hosted classic films, but also selected the titles and personally edited them to remove those scenes which he thought were not fit for family viewing. After Thomas' death in 1985, Roy Leonard took over the program. The series continued sporadically until its initial cancellation in 2000.
Rosamond Marshall was an American novelist. She wrote historical romances for adult and youth readers during the 1940s and 1950s, and two of her novels, Kitty and The Bixby Girls, were made into motion pictures.
Angel Baby is a 1961 American drama film directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Salome Jens, George Hamilton and Mercedes McCambridge. It was Burt Reynolds' film debut.
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Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind is an American documentary that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. It premiered on HBO Max on May 5, 2020, and is available to stream on Hulu and other streaming platforms. It was directed by Laurent Bouzereau and produced by Nedland Media, Amblin Television, and HBO Documentary Films. Producers include Bouzereau, Manoah Bowman, and Wood's daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner. It is rated TV-14.