 Bus Stop 1956  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Wrong Kind of Girl
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Hope Lange, Hans Conried, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray, Max Showalter, Henry Slate
A waitress, Cherie (Marilyn Monroe), dreams of her name in lights in Hollywood. Don Murray plays Bo, a cowboy, who becomes enamored with Cherie and thinks she is the "angel" he wants to marry.
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 Camelot 1967   N/R, 178 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Lionel Jeffries, Laurence Naismith, Estelle Winwood, Gary Marshal, Pierre Olaf
Richard Harris plays King Arthur to Vanessa Redgrave's Queen Guinevere in this film, based on Lerner and Loewe's Broadway musical. This is one example of a big-budget film that resulted in financial disaster. BUT the film won Academy Awards for Art Direction, Costume Design, and Music Scoring. 1 User Review
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Ensign Pulver 1964  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Tommy Sands, Millie Perkins, Kay Medford, Larry Hagman, James Farentino, James Coco, Jack Nicholson
This is a disappointing sequel to "Mr. Roberts," despite the good cast of current and future stars.
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Fanny 1961  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz, Salvatore Baccaloni, Lionel Jeffries, Victor Francen, Georgette Anys, Raymond Bussieres, Joel Flateau, Paul Bonifas
Fanny (Leslie Caron) is the young love interest of Marius (Charles Boyer), but this couple must make life-changing decisions about whether or not to spend their lives together. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Actor (Boyer).
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I Met My Love Again 1938  N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joshua Logan, George Cukor, Arthur Ripley
Cast: Joan Bennett, Henry Fonda, Dame May Whitty, Alan Marshal, Louise Platt, Alan Baxter, Tim Holt, Dorothy Stickney
A young woman (Joan Bennett) leaves her small town to run away with her lover and lives to regret her actions.
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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend 1987 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Gene Feldman, Suzette Winter
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Celeste Holm, Joshua Logan, Sheree North, Susan Strasberg, Don Murray
This documentary depicts the human side of ill-fated movie star Marilyn Monroe who killed herself in the early 1960s. Richard Widmark narrates.
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Paint Your Wagon 1969 PG, 166 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance / Western
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Jean Seberg, John Mitchum, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston, Alan Dexter, William O'Connell, Benny Baker, Alan Baxter, Tom Ligon, Paula Trueman, Robert Eastman, Geoffrey Norman, Terry Jenkins
The loneliness of gold mining in the Sierras abates for prospector Pardner (Clint Eastwood) when his cohort, Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin), agrees to share his wife Elizabeth (Jean Seberg). They live in the town of No Name where Elizabeth is the only woman, and now Ben worries about the other men being interested in her. His solution: kidnap a stagecoach filled with prostitutes. He opens a brothel, and business booms. Ben later gets involved with Mad Jack Duncan (Ray Walston) in creative mining under the town's buildings looking for golddust falling through the floorboards. Not a good idea–the town collapses, and everyone moves on. But, Pardner and Elizabeth remain and try to work out their problems. Lerner and Lowe songs intertwine with the action and include "I Talk to the Trees," "They Call the Wind Mariah," and "Wand'rin Star."
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Picnic 1955 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: William Holden, Kim Novak, Susan Strasberg, Arthur O'Connell, Cliff Robertson, Rosalind Russell, Betty Field, Verna Felton, Nick Adams, Reta Shaw, Raymond Bailey, Elizabeth Wilson, Phyllis Newman, Henry Pagueo, Don C. Harvey
When drifter Hal Carter (William Holden) wanders into a small Kansas town, his presence greatly affects the citizens as he falls in love with his old friend Alan Benson's (Cliff Robertson) fiancee Madge Owens (Kim Novak). Meanwhile, as he explores the town, Madge's young sister Millie (Susan Strasberg) and spinster schoolteacher Rosemary (Rosalind Russell) fall for him. Matters rise to a head at a picnic, and, after a fight with Alan, Hal hops a freight train to escape the law. But, by story's end, Madge is riding a bus in an effort to find her true love Hal. The film received Oscars for Art Direction/Set Decoration and Film Editing and was nominated for Best Picture, and Director. Arthur O'Connell received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Howard Bevans, the rejected, reliable boyfriend of Rosemary.
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Sayonara 1957 N/R, 147 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Marlon Brando, Miiko Taka, Red Buttons, Patricia Owens, Miyoshi Umeki, Ricardo Montalban, James Garner, Kent Smith, Martha Scott, Harlan Warde, Douglass Watson, Reiko Kuba, Soo Yong, Dennis Hopper, James Stacy
During the Korean war, an American soldier, Airman Joe Kelly (Red Buttons), falls in love with a Japanese maiden, Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki). If he marries her, Joe will face a court-martial because of the Army's opposition to marriages between U.S. soldiers and Japanese women. His friend, Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando), is prejudiced but reluctantly agrees to be the best man at the wedding. Later, Lloyd falls in love with Japanese entertainer Hana-ogi (Miiko Taka) and overcomes his prejudice, which results in the Army stepping in and sending soldiers who marry Japanese women home without their spouses. In the case of Lloyd and Joe, one of the marriages ends in tragedy, while the other promises hope for the future. Red Buttons and Miyoshi Umeki won Best Supporting Actor and Actress for their roles in this film.
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 South Pacific 1958 N/R, 151 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Juanita Hall, Ray Walston, France Nuyen, Russ Brown, Tom Laughlin, Jack Mullaney, Ken Clark, Floyd Simmons, Archie Savage, Candace Lee, Warren Hsieh, Francis Kahele
Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical features "Some Enchanted Evening," "Happy Talk," and "Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair" as it tells two love stories that are set amidst the perils of World War II. Navy nurse Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) and planter Emile de Becque (Rossano Brazzi) succeed in love while Lt. Joe Cable's (John Kerr) love for Liat (France Nuyen) ends tragically.
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Tall Story 1960 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston, Marc Connelly, Anne Jackson, Murray Hamilton, Elizabeth Patterson, Bart Burns, Tom Laughlin, Bob Wright
Although Ray Blent is a star college basketball player, he requires the aid of his girlfriend, June (Jane Fonda) to pass an important exam. Fonda's film debut.
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| 1. Bus Stop (1956)
aka: The Wrong Kind of Girl
2. Camelot (1967)
3. Ensign Pulver (1964)
4. Fanny (1961)
5. I Met My Love Again (1938)
6. Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1987)
7. Paint Your Wagon (1969)
8. Picnic (1955)
9. Sayonara (1957)
10. South Pacific (1958)
11. Tall Story (1960)
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