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- That Certain Thing (1928) Director: Frank Capra. Come the 1930s, Columbia’s fortunes would be tied to those of its most valuable signing, director Frank Capra, who would deliver a pair of best picture winners for the studio in It Happened One Night (1934) and 1938’s You Can’t Take It with You.
- Twentieth Century (1934) Director: Howard Hawks. Keen to repeat the success of It Happened One Night, Columbia went all in on screwball comedy throughout the 1930s.
- The Reckless Moment (1949) Director: Max Ophüls. The 1940s meant one thing: film noir. Columbia was already a dab hand at making every dollar count, and its extensive run of good-looking noirs throughout the 1940s and 1950s belied Harry Cohn’s notorious penny-pinching.
- The Long Gray Line (1955) Director: John Ford. From mistaken-identity comedy (The Whole Town’s Talking, 1935) and political melodrama (The Last Hurrah, 1958) to British police procedural (Gideon’s Day, 1958), John Ford covered some varied terrain across his five films for Columbia.
But Columbia came to the rescue, thanks to a new initiative to assist local-language filmmaking in foreign markets. Gareth Wigan, a widely respected Sony exec, became involved, as did Barbara ...
Aug 1, 2024 · 1954. The Push for Prestige Through the ’50s, Columbia moves away from lower-budget movies. On the Waterfront, from director Elia Kazan and writer Budd Schulberg, is one of the studio’s...
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Aug 2, 2024 · The movie earned nearly $57 million worldwide — the most of any Columbia release in history at the time — and 10 Oscar nominations, with wins for Hepburn and its screenplay.
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Columbia's most commercially successful franchises include Spider-Man, Jumanji, Bad Boys, Men in Black, The Karate Kid, Robert Langdon, and Ghostbusters, and the studio's highest-grossing film worldwide is Spider-Man: No Way Home with box office of $1.92 billion.
May 6, 2024 · The few stars truly fostered by Columbia had an outsize but temporary influence: in the 1930s, Jean Arthur helped make the studio a leader in screwball comedy; in the forties, musicals and film noir flourished thanks to Rita Hayworth.
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The 1950s saw the release of films like From Here to Eternity, Anatomy of a Murder, and two of the best films in Columbia Pictures’ library: On the Waterfront and The Bridge on the River Kwai. The 1960s saw Columbia make many award winning films like Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Strangelove, A Man for All Seasons, and Oliver!.
