In what company did Robert Morse rise to the top in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)?
Window washer Morse conquered the Worldwide Wicket Co., owned by Rudy Vallee in the movie How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
The O in David O. Selznick (1902-1965) stood for Oliver.
The Cannes Film Festival was established in 1939. Winners of its Golden Palm (for Best Film) have included Marty (1955), La Dolce Vita (1960), M*A*S*H (1970), and The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978).
Two of the four of Bing Crosby’s sons have killed themselves. Lindsay Crosby shot himself in 1989; Dennis Crosby shot himself in 1991.
Jean-Pierre Leaud played Antoine Doinel in director Francois Truffaut’s autobiographical series. The series consisted of: The 400 Blows (1959), Love at Twenty (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), and Love on the Run (1979).
His former partner Harry Regan’s (Howard Duff) death leads Ira Wells (Art Carney) to team with Margo Sperling (Lily Tomlin) in The Late Show (1977). Regan had been hired by Sperling to locate her missing cat.
Yes, novelist Joseph Heller worked in Hollywood With David R. Schwartz, he cowrote the screenplay of Sex and the Single Girl (1964), the sex farce based on Helen Gurley Brown’s book of the same title. It starred Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Lauren Bacall, and Henry Fonda.