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The Mirisch Company was founded in August 1957 at which time it signed a 12-picture deal with United Artists (UA), which was extended to 20 films two years later. UA acquired the company on March 1, 1963, but the Mirisch brothers continued to produce for their distribution, under other corporate names, in rented space at the Samuel Goldwyn Studio.
Feb 25, 2023 · In 1961, the Mirisch Company produced West Side Story, the Best Picture-winning musical based on the Tony-winning 1957 Broadway show.A modern take on Romeo and Juliet, the film fronted by Natalie ...
Dec 18, 2023 · Walter Mirisch, who died Feb. 24, was an active member of The UCLA Foundation board of directors for many years. He was 101. In 1989, he received the UCLA Medal, the campus’s highest honor. “The Mirisch Company (and its other entities) is arguably the most important independent film production company of the mid-20th century, especially ...
The Mirisch Company, the production company he ran with his brother and half-brother, produced films that racked up a whopping 87 Academy Award nominations and 28 Oscars, including back-to-back best-picture wins for The Apartment (1960) and West Side Story (1961), as well as for In the Heat of the Night, the 1967 thriller that brought Mirisch his personal Best Picture win.
The magnificent seven Mirisch Companies. Paul Kerr. 2020. The Mirisch Company (and its six corporate siblings) was the most commercially and critically successful independent production company in Hollywood in the late 1950s and 1960s – winning Best Picture Oscar three times between 1960 and 1967 and supplying United Artists with five of its ...
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The Mirisch Company's 1961 release, "West Side Story," also won the Oscar for Best Picture. In 1967, Mirisch, himself, produced the Academy Award-winning Best Picture, "In the Heat of the Night," starring Rod Steiger as a Southern sheriff forced to forge a relationship and take help from a northern African-American police lieutenant (Sidney Poitier).
