Lee J. Cobb

...husband put his arms around me and said: 'Honey you're in good hands. Kazan is directing. Marlon is in it. You know all of these people. Lee Cobb, Karl Malden, Nicky [Nehemiah] Persoff, you know them, you've seen them at the Studio, you're...

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...Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan. Born 'Leon Jacob '''to a Jewish family in New York City, Cobb studied at New York University before making his film debut in ''The Vanishing Shadow (1934). He...

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..."L.A. Story." With David Susskind, he won an Emmy for best dramatic program in 1967 for a production of "Death of a Salesman," starring Lee J. Cobb. Moving from MGM to Columbia in 1977 at the invitation of studio president David Begelman,...

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...Tuesday with the 1947 movie based on a notorious Bridgeport murder-mystery, "Boomerang," starring Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt and Lee J. Cobb. The movie is a fictionalized retelling of the street killing of a Catholic priest on the evening...

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...O'Neill and Tennessee Williams. He was in the opening-night audience of "Death of a Salesman'' on Broadway in 1949, with Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman, and he was there again when the curtain went up on the 50th-anniversary production,...

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...for her performance as a troubled housewife with three distinct personalities. Based on a true story, this 1957 drama also stars Lee J. Cobb and David Wayne. (10 p.m., TCM) - Compiled by Raymond A. Edel UNDERWORLD - Sort of a...

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...to the memorable climactic scene of the classic 1954 film "On the Waterfront." "There's the scene on the waterfront when Lee J. Cobb and his goons get Marlon Brando down in the meeting house there and just beat the hell out of him and...

In this article: Marlon Brando, Cabrillo College, Cancer, Vasko Popa, On the Waterfront, Karl Malden, Saturday morning, and Nickelodeon

If "Captain Abu Raed'' feels like a contemporary Arab version of a '50s problem drama, Sawalha comes across as an exalted Lee J. Cobb. His companionability goes a long way to overcome the movie's relentless uplift. The other virtue...

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...officer plotting to destroy a Nazi munitions plant in France, where he takes shelter with the family of a French farmer (Lee J. Cobb), whose daughter blames the British for the fall of France. The screenplay is an early credit for Academy...

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...the firm that imports the Italian wines and a co-sponsor of the event. The reading, which coincides with the 55th anniversary of the film which also starred Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb, is taking place in what is now Hoboken's Sinatra Park

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