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Mar 8, 2024 · Maibaum, who wrote and produced O.S.S., wanted Paramount to cast real-life OSS officer and Hollywood heartthrob Sterling Hayden as the lead. Hayden, however, was still serving in uniform at the time, so the role went to Ladd. O.S.S. was released in theaters May 26, 1946, and the film was so successful that other studios were quick to jump on the OSS bandwagon.
Just for the sake of the line, I was heartbroken when they rejected it." Broccoli called in Tom Mankiewicz to rewrite Maibaum's screenplay and, in the process, Goldfinger's brother was scratched, and Ernst Stavros Blofeld, the mastermind behind SPECTRE, returned. And, Maibaum says, his "smash ending" became "an interminable thing on an oil rig."
5 days ago · October 13, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. EDT. C.W. Goodyear is the author of “President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier.”. Another Columbus Day will soon be upon us, and many Americans will spend the ...
Nov 9, 2012 · Richard Maibaum continued to work on the series in the 1970s (he did initial drafts for Diamonds Are Forever and The Spy Who Loved Me and a major rewrite on The Man with the Golden Gun), but the key writer for the Bond-lite era was Tom Mankiewicz-- the son of the Academy Award winning writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) and the nephew of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J ...
Jan 7, 1991 · Richard Maibaum, a former stage actor who began writing scripts for Hollywood in the 1930s, earning credits for pictures ranging from the steely thriller "They Gave Him a Gun" to the covert capers ...
