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  Robert Aldrich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Burgess Aldrich was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, the son of Lora Lawson and newspaper publisher Edward B. Aldrich, and grandson of US Senator Nelson W. Aldrich.
Robert was educated at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island and went to the University of Virginia to study economics.
Robert and Harriet later divorced, and he married model Sybille Siegfried in 1965.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Robert Aldrich
Aldrich, Robert (1918–1983), American film director and producer, who made more than two dozen motion pictures, including a 1967 box office hit,...
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907), American writer and editor, whose most famous work, Story of a Bad Boy (1870), was based on his boyhood...
Aldrich's most important contribution was in the field of banking reform.
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 The hunter gets captured by the game: Robert Aldrich's Hollywood
Aldrich is often also lauded, or criticised, for the treatment of violence in his films.
Aldrich seems uninterested, at this point in his career, in the complexities and compromises that such an adaptation entails.
Aldrich's films are generally populated by characters and stars whose faces and bodies do not conform to the Hollywood regimen of appearances or who have seen better days.
www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr0600/adfr10h.htm   (5372 words)

  
 Cover Story
Robert Streeter Aldrich was born June 24, 1920, in Elmwood, Nebraska, a village 20 miles east of Lincoln.
Aldrich was twice named the town's Poet Laureate (1993-94 and 1996-97) and served on the board of the Los Gatos Museum Association.
Aldrich is survived by his brother, Charles S. Aldrich of Exeter, N.H., sister Mary Aldrich Beechner of Lincoln, Neb., a nephew, three nieces, and two dozen great- and great-great nieces and nephews, according to niece Dorothy Mapes.
www.svcn.com /archives/lgwt/06.18.97/CoverStory.html   (648 words)

  
 Robert Anderson Aldrich (www.whonamedit.com)
Robert Anderson Aldrich was the son of another distinguished American paediatrician, Charles Anderson Aldrich (1888-1949), professor of paediatrics at the Mayo Clinic and eponymously remembered for Aldrich’s test, an intradermal salt solution test.
Aldrich was educated at Amhurst College, Massachusetts, graduating in 1939, and at the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago.
After military service, Aldrich completed paediatric residency training followed by a research fellowship at the University of Minnesota before he came to the Mayo Clinic in 1950 as a member of the consultant staff.
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 Robert Aldrich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It seems typical of Robert Aldrich’s sense of style that the work is couched in terms of the severest Surrealism, and of his supreme artifice that the whole thing should be presented ultimately in terms of a joke.
A fortuitous co-operation of Aldrich and Sergio Leone.
Aldrich films their tag team matches at a certain remove, as filled with awe in his way as Burt Young stared down by the World Champion, a giantess named Big Mama, sipping her Budweisers.
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 Robert Aldrich: an independent career
Robert Aldrich was born in 1917 to a Rhode Island banking family, related on his mother's side to the Rockefellers.
Aldrich's response to this unstable environment was to establish an enduring repertory company of on- and off-camera colleagues, easily surpassing such earlier companies as those enjoyed by John Ford and Preston Sturges.
Aldrich moved to the flat coastal truckfarming community of Oxnard, one hundred kilometres north of Los Angeles, where he claimed to see all the films he watched with the locals in the smalltown moviehouse.
www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr0600/rtfr10a.htm   (5393 words)

  
 Small town, big changes - Bay Windows - Local News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Aldrich began his law enforcement career as a police dispatcher in his hometown of Exeter at age 18.
Aldrich came out to the seven members of his department during a discussion of new departmental policies and procedures, one of which addressed workplace harassment.
Aldrich will be in good company when he travels to Los Angeles for the four day conference: Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole is slated to be a co-presenter at the 90-minute workshop, and Connecticut state Rep. Michael Lawlor, an ardent gay rights supporter, will moderate the session.
www.baywindows.com /news/2004/04/22/LocalNews/Small.Town.Big.Changes-667548.shtml   (1479 words)

  
 The Films of Robert Aldrich - by Michael Grost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Aldrich began directing in 1953, and by then, the film noir cycle had run its course as a Hollywood phenomenon, peaking in the years 1942 - 1951.
Aldrich seems to be saying that their corruption has allowed these people to rise to the top.
Aldrich creates three such separate shots in the film, the first involving camera movement behind the bed frame, showing different designs in the wire.
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 Robert Aldrich
Aldrich was active in the Directors Guild of America throughout his career and ultimately served as its president, overseeing the negotiation of a break-through contract in terms of creative rights in 1978.
In this sense, Aldrich is a rigorous determinist.
Aldrich and most of his heroes are caught in a dichotomy between natural and artificial, between chaotic and ordered, between instinctual and institutionalised conduct that impels the unaware or unprepared into indecision and that can short-circuit a saving or creative act into an impotent or deadly one.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/aldrich.html   (7624 words)

  
 Robert Anderson Aldrich (www.whonamedit.com)
Aldrich was educated at Amhurst College, Massachusetts and at the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago.
After military service Aldrich trained in paediatrics at the University of Minnesota before he came to the Mayo Clinic in 1950 as a member of the consultant staff.
Aldrich gave this account of the way in which the syndrome bearing his name was delineated:
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 Bright Lights Film Journal | The Killing of Sister George
Robert Aldrich ranks with Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray as one of the "golden boys" of postwar commercial cinema whose formal chops and aggressive social critique made that period so exciting.
Aldrich said that "Susannah was a bitch to her [Browne]" because she (York) simply didn’t want to do the scene, which involved blatant nipple-gnawing, sizzling kisses, and other upfront touches.
Aldrich’s lawsuit (he spent $75,000 battling the X rating) was ultimately dismissed, and the film died at the box office.
www.brightlightsfilm.com /28/sistergeorge1.html   (1263 words)

  
 DGA
The Aldrich Award, given for extraordinary service to the Guild and to its membership, will be presented to Taylor at the DGA Awards on March 1, 2003.
Taylor was DGA Vice President from 1977 to 1981, and under Robert Aldrich's presidency spearheaded a committee to analyze the DGA pension and health plans.
The Robert B. Aldrich Award was established in 1984 to recognize extraordinary service to the Directors Guild of America and to its membership.
www.dga.org /news/pr_expand.php3?302   (625 words)

  
 Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Robert Aldrich (BPSJ)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Robert Aldrich is easily one of the best and, at one point, the most popular cross-genre directors Hollywood has produced.
Aldrich was extremely aggressive and creative in attaining his goal to be a film director and a producer.
At the end of the mid-year elections, Aldrich was ‘devastated at not even being elected to the Board after his terms as president.’ He believed he had alienated many potential employers by his vigorous efforts during contract negotiations and was stung that his colleagues repudiated him at the end of his second term.
www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=211359   (3809 words)

  
 Thesis on robert aldrich
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 Kiss Me Deadly - The Kiss Me Mangled Mystery: Refurbishing a Film Noir - by Glenn Erickson
At that time he was intrigued by foreign references to a version of the film where the protagonists indeed reached the surf as they had in the screenplay.
Alain also had read an interview where Aldrich himself claimed not to be aware of any ending except Hammer and Velda stumbling to the waterline, even though their fate after the fade out is in grave doubt.
Aldrich's personal print, which could very well be a 1955 original, had been donated to the Director's Guild of America after his death in 1983.
www.imagesjournal.com /issue03/features/kmd1.htm   (1070 words)

  
 The hunter gets captured by the game: Robert Aldrich's Hollywood
Robert Aldrich quoted in Edward T. Arnold and Eugene L. Miller, The films and career of Robert Aldrich (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986), 53.
The films exemplify a disfigurement of star and space that is part of a broader disfiguring in Aldrich's cinema of genre, narrative, and mise en scene.
Aldrich's three "Hollywood" films are less developed, consistent, coherent, and obvious works than other generic examples produced by Minnelli, Wilder and Cukor.
www.latrobe.edu.au /www/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr0600/adfr10h.htm   (5372 words)

  
 Q.Know: Management Team - Richard Meyer, Vineet Kalucha, Joseph Geaney, Robert Aldrich, Anne McMillen, Steve Drill, Dan ...
Robert Aldrich has more than 19 years of private and public company experience in finance and public accounting.
Aldrich’s prior experiences include serving as the controller and associate director of finance for IGEN, Inc., a publicly traded medical diagnostics company where he was responsible for financial reporting the company and its four affiliated companies.
Aldrich also spent seven years with Deloitte and Touche providing accounting and auditing services to a diverse client base, including technology, bio-tech and start-ups.
www.qknow.com /about/team.mspx   (1699 words)

  
 Robert Aldrich: Interviews
In this collection of interviews, Robert Aldrich (1918-1983) tells fascinating stories of making motion pictures with such film legends as Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Robert Mitchum, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Charles Bronson, Eddie Albert, and Burt Reynolds.
Among Aldrich's interviewers are Richard Combs, Peter Bogdanovich, Alain Silver, Pierre Sauvage, and David Sterritt.
Although he was a member and a kinsman of wealthy, powerful families (the Aldriches of Rhode Island and the Rockefellers of New York), he gained a reputation as an anti-authoritarian maverick whose films condemned corruptive power.
www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/fall2003/robert_aldrich_interviews.html   (340 words)

  
 Le vol du Phoenix - The Flight of the Phoenix - Robert Aldrich - James Stewart - DVD Z2 - Dvdclassik
Pendant plus de 2h20, Robert Aldrich va tenir en haleine ses spectateurs sans jamais s’écarter de cette trame, sans faire appel à des intrigues secondaires, sans s’échapper de ce carcan étouffant en invoquant des flash-back explicatifs… Le réalisateur prend à bras le corps le genre, et réalise une œuvre quasi épurée et constamment haletante.
En cela, Aldrich, malgré un pessimisme qui innerve constamment son œuvre, se révèle au final être un humaniste confiant en la capacité de l’homme à défaire ce qui est posé comme inéluctable.
Robert Aldrich et son chef opérateur Joseph Biroc utilisent le cadre comme renforcement de ce sentiment claustrophobique.
www.dvdclassik.com /Critiques/dvd_vol_du_phoenix.htm   (1646 words)

  
 Aldrich, Robert --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Scottish botanist Robert Brown was born in Montrose.
Robert was a strong supporter of the movement to preserve African verse traditions.
Robert Goddard and Wernher von Braun were two of the engineers who helped develop rockets.
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 Robert Aldrich -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Robert Burgess Aldrich was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Cranston, Rhode Island) Cranston, Rhode Island, the son of Lora Lawson and newspaper publisher Edward B. Aldrich, and grandson of US Senator (Click link for more info and facts about Nelson W. Aldrich) Nelson W. Aldrich.
His stunning Western from 1972 (Click link for more info and facts about Ulzana's Raid) Ulzana's Raid is among the very best of his works.
He had four children with his first wife Harriet Foster, all of whom became involved in the movie business: (Click link for more info and facts about Adell Aldrich) Adell Aldrich, William Aldrich, Alida Aldrich, and Kelly Aldrich.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_aldrich.htm   (329 words)

  
 robert aldrich
A good man is hard to find...unless you're watching a Robert Aldrich film.
But dying in the line of duty or on the battlefield is an honor in Aldrich's uncompromising world.
Robert Aldrich placed his characters in intense conditions where their wit, wiles, ability and charm were their best--and often only--tools.
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 Turner Classic Movies - Movie News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In Robert Aldrich: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi) by Eugene L. Miller and Edwin T. Arnold, Robert Aldrich (1918-1983) tells fascinating stories of making motion pictures with such film legends as Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Robert Mitchum, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Charles Bronson, Eddie Albert, and Burt Reynolds.
In dialogue with critics and film scholars Aldrich recounts a life in filmmaking that encompassed both old Hollywood's studio system and the spirited independence that took American cinema in a new direction in the 1960s and '70s.
Robert Aldrich: Interviews is currently available from most major book store chains and specialty book shops everywhere.
www.turnerclassicmovies.com /MovieNews/Index/0,,71030,00.html   (375 words)

  
 Daily News Record : Robert Aldrich Joins Fashion Avenue. @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
NEW YORK -- Robert Aldrich has joined Fashion Avenue, a division of the Italian sportswear company Ittierre Holding, as vice-president of sales, according to Patrick Guadagno, president of Fashion Avenue.
At one time, Aldrich was vice-president of sales for the men's wear division of Giorgio Armani Fashion Corp. Most recently he cofounded Great Jones Home, a home furnishings retail operation in Seattle.
Aldrich will continue to be affiliated with Great Jones.
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 Attack
Aldrich is quoted as having said, "A director is a ringmaster, a psychiatrist and a referee" (1), evident in the film's mise en scène.
One shot of the poker scene is an overhead of a circular table around which the men sit, each divided by rank and class from the next, metaphorical fathers and sons in a conflict more far-reaching than that of the war raging outside.
For critic Manny Farber, "The Aldrich films are filled with exciting characterizations - by Lee Marvin, Rod Steiger, Jack Palance - of highly psyched-up, marred, and bothered men." (2) As Costa's limbs are crushed by an advancing panzer, he bellows like a trapped animal.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/01/16/attack.html   (1075 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - The Longest Yard -- Robert Aldrich - VHS
Robert Aldrich, Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Michael Conrad
Reynolds plays a former professional quarterback who's now riding the bench in a state penitentiary, where the evil, conniving warden (Eddie Albert) pressures him into organizing a team of inmates to play against the prison's beefy guards.
Before getting mucked up in a series of 1980's celluloid trash, Burt Reynolds proved he was a solid dramatic actor with a series of great parts, this one right before re-teaming with Robert Aldrich and co-star Eddie Albert, in HUSTLE.
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 Robert Aldrich @ Filmbug UK
Robert Aldrich (August 9, 1918 - December 5, 1983) was a United States film director, writer and producer notable for a number of films including What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and The Dirty Dozen.
In the 1950s Aldrich was a rare American example of the auteur, enforcing his own vision across a wide thematic range, with films like the noir classsic Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife (both 1955) and Attack!
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