The Story of G.I. Joe

...States Army Air Forces in World War II, reaching the rank of captain . He was discharged in 1944 to work on the movie "The Story of GI Joe", in which he starred as the popular war correspondent Ernie Pyle. He also provided the narration for A...

In this article: Burgess Meredith, Rocky Balboa, Penguin, Mickey Goldmill, The Story of GI Joe, Ulysses, Liliom, Ernie Pyle, Batman, and Probe

Altieri had been technical advisor on A Force of Arms (1951). Director William Wellman's reputation for superb war films lay in The Story of G.I. Joe and Battleground ''. He was hired on condition that Warner Brothers finance his...

In this article: William Orlando Darby, Darby's Rangers, James Garner, U.S. Army, Warner Brothers, Charlton Heston, Edd Byrnes, and Jack Warner

The Story of G.I. Joe (1945 ), also credited in prints as Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe, is a war film directed by William Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including...

In this article: Ernie Pyle, William A. Wellman, G.I. Joe, John Huston, and Robert Mitchum

...a humble enlisted man. When Pyle's stories were turned into a 1945 movie starring Robert Mitchum, producers decided to call it "The Story of G.I. Joe," even though Pyle carped in print, "I never did like the title, but nobody could think...

In this article: Ernie Pyle, G.I. Joe, Cobra, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Breaker, World War I, World War II, Serpentor, and Hasbro

...daughter of inventor Nathan B. Stubblefield. Note: There is another song titled "Linda", written by Ann Ronell for the film score of "The Story of G.I. Joe" (1945). It was nominated for an Oscar (but didn't win). Jan & Dean recorded a version...

In this article: Jack Lawrence, Linda, Billboard magazine, Jan and Dean, Ann Ronell, Buddy Clark, Ray Noble, and Deadman's Curve

...in Toronto, Ontario. He composed music for numerous films. He was nominated for an academy award for his score of the 1945 film, The Story of G.I. Joe. He was Executive Director of the Ontario Arts Council and Vice-President of the Canadian...

In this article: Louis Applebaum, Ontario Arts Council, Officer of the Order of Canada, and Toronto, Ontario

..."The Ox-Bow Incident," a grim tale of American injustice. Oh, and "Wings," the first movie to ever win the best-picture Oscar. And "Story of G.I. Joe," a wise and weary study of ordinary men under fire. And plenty of popular hits, too --...

In this article: William A. Wellman, The Ox-Bow Incident, John Wayne, World War I, Jack Warner, Story of G.I. Joe, Wild Boys of the Road, Oscar, and Wings

...wrote songs for movies including Champagne Waltz (1937) and Blockade (1938) and wrote the scores for movies including the Cowan produced The Story of G. I. Joe (1945), the film adaptation of the Weill/Nash musical One Touch of Venus ''...

In this article: Ann Ronell, Willow Weep for Me, George Gershwin, The Story of G. I. Joe, Broadway, Dana Suesse, and Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf

...greatest conflict. In 1944, his columns for Scripps-Howard Newspapers earned a Pulitzer Prize and Hollywood made a movie, Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe, starring Burgess Meredith as the slender, balding 44-year-old reporter. Typically...

In this article: Ernie Pyle, World War II, Okinawa, National Archives & Records Administration, and Story of G.I. Joe

...could run the spectrum from gorgeous leading man (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison) to light comedian (What a Way to Go!) to war hero (The Story of G.I. Joe) to Western existentialist (Pursued) to flawed noir antihero (Out of the Past, Angel Face,...

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