Top Ten Contributors - His Kind of Woman (1951)
by milam_ogden | created - 06 Nov 2014 | updated - 06 Nov 2014 | PublicAnother good film noir starring Robert Mitchum. I this one, he is paired with Jane Russell set in Mexico. A very good cast and lots of action, here are the top 10 contributors that brought this film to the screen.
1. Gerald Drayson Adams
Writer | Kissin' Cousins
A former business executive and literary agent who was educated at Oxford University in England, Gerald Drayson Adams began writing for the screen in the mid-1940s. He wrote mostly second features, specializing in action/adventure and western films, and ended his career with an Elvis Presley ...
wrote the original story
2. John Farrow
Writer | Around the World in Eighty Days
John Farrow wrote short stories and plays during his four-year career in the navy. In the late 1920s he came to Hollywood as a technical advisor for a film about Marines and stayed as a screenwriter, from A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927) through Tarzan Escapes (1936). He married Tarzan's Jane, Maureen ...
asked by RKO Radio Pictures to direct; uncredited assistance from Richard Fleischer
3. Frank Fenton
Writer | River of No Return
Frank Fenton was born on February 13, 1903 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. He was a writer, known for River of No Return (1954), Station West (1948) and His Kind of Woman (1951). He was married to Mary Jane Hodge, Mary Jane Hodge and June Martel. He died on August 23, 1971 in Los Angeles, ...
wrote the screenplay along with Jack Leonard
4. Leigh Harline
Composer | Pinocchio
Academy Award-winning composer (score, Pinocchio (1940), conductor, songwriter ("When You Wish Upon a Star" [Academy award, Best Song, 1940) and arranger Leigh Harine was educated at the University of Utah. He was a music student of J. Spencer Cornwall. He arranged the first transcontinental ...
responsible for the music
5. Harry J. Wild
Cinematographer | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Harry J. Wild was born on July 5, 1901 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Army Girl (1938) and Murder, My Sweet (1944). He died on February 25, 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
director of photography
6. Robert Mitchum
Actor | Out of the Past
Robert Mitchum was an underrated American leading man of enormous ability, who sublimated his talents beneath an air of disinterest. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Ann Harriet (Gunderson), a Norwegian immigrant, and James Thomas Mitchum, a shipyard/railroad worker. His father died in a ...
plays role of Dan Milner
7. Jane Russell
Actress | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born on June 21, 1921, in Bemidji, Minnesota. Her father was a United States Army lieutenant and her mother had been a student of drama and an actress with a traveling troupe. Once Mr. Russell was mustered out of the service, the family took up residence in ...
plays role of Lenore Brent
8. Vincent Price
Actor | The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Actor, raconteur, art collector and connoisseur of haute cuisine are just some of the attributes associated with Vincent Price. He was born Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. in St. Louis, Missouri, to Marguerite Cobb "Daisy" (Wilcox) and Vincent Leonard Price, who was President of the National Candy ...
plays cad Mark Cardigan
9. Raymond Burr
Actor | Rear Window
Born Raymond William Stacy Burr on 21 May 1917 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Burr spent most of his early life traveling. As a youngster, his father moved his family to China, where the elder Burr worked as a trade agent. When the family returned to Canada, Raymond's parents separated. He ...
plays heavy Nick Ferraro
10. Charles McGraw
Actor | Spartacus
Stony-faced, grizzled-looking tough guy Charles McGraw (real name Charles Butters) notched up dozens of TV and film credits, usually portraying law enforcement figures or military officers, plus the odd shifty gangster. While at high school he worked as a theatre usher and was nicknamed "Chick" by ...
plays Thompson, cop and also narrator
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