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  The Great Anti-War Films: The Americanization of Emily
Emily Barham (Julie Andrews) is a war widow working the motor pool who is assigned to drive Charlie to the supply station to pick up steaks, eggs, fruit and plenty of booze for a swank officers’ party.
Emily warns him that her mother is a bit mad and has taken to referring to her fallen husband and son as though they were still alive.
Julie Andrews is perfect as Emily, and it is not at all hard to believe that the Garner character could fall in love with her overnight.
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 Amazon.com: The Americanization of Emily: DVD: James Garner,Julie Andrews,Melvyn Douglas,James Coburn,Joyce Grenfell,Ed ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY is one of the finest films of that period, a movie that manages to be a biting satirical comedy, a clear-eyed love story, and a passionate denunciation of warfare all at the same time.
EMILY was popular enough but somewhat overlooked at the time of its release, and it is not as well-known today as it deserves to be.
Emily has lost a father, a brother, and a husband in this war, and she is sick and tired of gallant men sacrificing their lives in a seemingly endless war.
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 GreenCine | product main - The Americanization of Emily (1964)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The lively but somehow slightly distasteful The Americanization of Emily stars James Garner as a WWII naval officer who happens to be a craven coward.
Garner falls in love with virtuous war widow Julie Andrews (the "Emily" of the title), but she can't abide his yellow streak.
Americanization of Emily was Julie Andrews' second film; it should have led to a steady stream of adult-oriented roles, but the box-office clout of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music consigned her to "wholesome family entertainment".
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 IGN: Americanization of Emily, The Review
His driver is Emily (Julie Andrews), a young woman who has lost her new husband, brother and father during the war and finds Charlie's womanizing and arrogant American demeanor distasteful.
This was only Julie Andrews' second film, but her Emily is a lusty woman fearful of commitment, but of conflicted passions for Charlie.
Emily appeared between Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music and it hints that if it weren't for those twin musical successes, she may've avoided being permanently typecast in virginal roles.
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 The Americanization of Emily
Arthur Hiller's "The Americanization of Emily" (1964) was a departure for its British co-star, Julie Andrews.
Known primarily as the squeaky clean virgin of stage plays, "Camelot" and "My Fair Lady," and her debut standout as the nanny with an edge in "Mary Poppins," on this occasion Andrews is cast as Emily Bartham -- a rather vivacious vixen in London's swinging west end.
The transfer on "The Americanization of Emily" is absolutely first rate.
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 Expert About am:Americanization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Globalization is popularly characterized in Israel as the Americanization of Israel and its desirability is hotly contested.
Mordechai Nisan notes that, “Israel of the 1990s is experiencing the Zeitgeist of Americanization of its entire social consciousness, reflected in personal ambitions, materialistic concerns, popular culture, and the moral climate of opinion.
Electoral reform intensified Americanization of the campaigns waged in 1996 and 1999.
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 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: The Americanization of Emily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Emily is a satiric, romantic, fl comedy about an American "dog-robber" (procurement specialist) named Charlie Madison, a Sgt. Bilko-like officer acquiring booze, broads, and gourmet treats for his American Navy general boss overseas in 1944.
Andrews plays a lovely war widow, Emily Barham, working as a military driver in war-torn London, deeply committed to the war effort that's taken the lives of both her father and husband.
There is simply no area in which The Americanization of Emily is not superior — as an anti-war film, it's strikingly modern, and the satire is viciously pointed in classic Chayevsky fashion (he and Hiller would work together again a decade later on the brilliant George C. Scott film The Hospital).
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 Encyclopedia: The Americanization of Emily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Sidney Paddy Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 - August 1, 1981) was an acclaimed dramatist who transitioned from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to have a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter for Hollywood.
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Award nominations: Sharon Marie Tate (January 24, 1943 - August 9, 1969) was an American actress and a victim of the Charles Manson murders.
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 Americanization of Emily, The (1964) - Review - Piddleville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
It's a good movie but not a great movie and for me its biggest problem is that it is a satire and, as often happens with satires, its message take precedence over its story and its characters.
James Garner is in the American military as a "dog robber," a man who basically makes life easy and indulgent for a general, or whomever else he is working for.
Garner is a man who cares only for surviving the military and is, as he puts it, a coward.
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 Americanization
Americanization, term used to describe the movement during the first quarter of the 20th cent.
The passage of this legislation and the quota system of immigration caused the Americanization movement to subside; private groups eventually disbanded.
The "Americanization" of Israel: A Demographic, Cultural and Political Evaluation.
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 Can George Bush Be Americanized? by Harry Browne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Americanization of Emily is one of my favorite movies, and it's certainly one of the best anti-war movies ever made.
Emily is a British motor-pool driver whom Charlie meets and falls in love with.
Charlie Madison in The Americanization of Emily, Jim Rockford in the Rockford Files, and the title role in Cash McCall (another movie with libertarian undertones).
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 Turner Classic Movies This Month Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Released between the blockbuster films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965), The Americanization of Emily (1964) proved that Andrews's talents were hardly limited to her singing voice and that her charms were just as engaging in a modest comedy as in a lavish musical.
A proper, repressed war widow who refuses to take part in the atmosphere of frivolity that infects her countrywomen in uniform, Emily nonetheless falls for the cavalier Charlie, whose cowardice turns out to be his best selling point for a woman who has lost a husband, father and brother in the war.
Controversial upon its original release, The Americanization of Emily was a vanguard anti-war film, poking fun at mindless patriotism years before such films were fashionable or popularly accepted.
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 slant // magazine.com: DVD Review - The Americanization of Emily
Arguing that international conflicts are neither noble nor inevitable, Hiller's 1964 anti-war satire created some controversy thanks to its portrait of lascivious, drunken, egomaniacal military bigwigs and its elevation of James Garner's Charlie Madison, a self-described "practicing coward," as its hero.
Still, The Americanization of Emily's wry, sardonic take on the absurdity of war (an attitude that would later inform M*A*S*H and Catch-22) is kept afloat by its sterling leads, who manage to smoothly balance frivolous farce with a measure of sobering poignancy.
Hiller's bland directorial eye is the weakest aspect of The Americanization of Emily, but Warner's new 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer ably handles the fl-and-white film without a lot of edge enhancement or grain.
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 The Americanization of Emily (1964)
An American naval officer discovers he is slated to be the first victim in the Normandy invasion as part of a military PR plot.
The late Paddy Chayefsky was the bard of comic outrage, a brilliant satirist whose targets ranged from television (Network) to healthcare (The Hospital).
Both a scathingly funny critique of the absurdity of war and a tender romance, The Americanization of Emily doesn't pull any punches in its withering portrait of the American military leaders.
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 Amazon.ca: Americanization Of Emily: DVD: Arthur Hiller,Julie Andrews,Edward Binns,Gary Cockrell,Melvyn Douglas,Steve ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Emily is a coruscating piece of work by the legendary Chayefsky, who fashioned one of the most thoughtfully hilarious films ever written on military service and marriage in a series of brilliant one-liners.
Conversely, Emily's mantra of God, honor, and country expresses the spirit of self-sacrifice in wartime for which the British are famed.
When Emily questions the value of Charley's live-for-today creed, asking in effect, "Are you going to get rid of me when I'm not fun any more," she's spoken the key line of the film.
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 The Americanization of Emily
The first picture here was taken by Emily and is of the beginning of the underground tour of the city, where one spends 90 minutes walking through the original street level of the city, before it was raised by 8-35 feet following a fire in the late 19th century.
The second picture was taken by Viola and is at the Elephant and Castle, a British style pub.
Emily had stuffed Yorkshire pudding, but was disappointed by the amount of mash and green beans and the relative lack of Yorkshire pudding.
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 The Americanization of Emily - Widescreen Dubbed Subtitle Dolby - DVD
The lively but somehow slightly distasteful The Americanization of Emily stars James Garner as a WWII naval officer who happens to be a craven coward.
Paddy Chayefsky's script, based on the novel by William Bradford Huie, attempts to extract humor out of the horrors of war by using broad, vulgar comedy instead of the light satirical touch that would seem to be called for.
Americanization of Emily was Julie Andrews' second film; it should have led to a steady stream of adult-oriented roles, but the box-office clout of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music consigned her to "wholesome family entertainment".
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 The Americanization of Emily (1964) - A Review by David Nusair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Americanization of Emily is really two movies.
The first, and the one that I enjoyed, involves the unlikely romance between an American navel officer (James Garner) and a British war-time secretary (Julie Andrews).
The second, and less successful story, revolves around the American military and their attempt in creating a massive publicity event around the first dead soldier on Normandy beach.
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 Film Locations Americanization of Emily, The
Romantic comedy set during WWII an unlikely romance between American naval officer (James Garner) and British war-time secretary and widow (Julie Andrews).
Garner plays a self confessed coward who gets caught up in the American military's attempt at a publicity event by being a sailor and the first casualty on a Normandy beach.
Supposed to be, I believe, the American Forces PX store, where they obtained goods that were on ration to the Brits.
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 Magill's Survey of Cinema: THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
He puts Madison in charge of the motion picture crew scheduled to film the landing and the death.
Emily Barham (Julie Andrews) is a war widow who finds herself falling in love with Madison, despite his avowed cowardice.
The above preview is from Magill's Survey of Cinema, June 15, 1995.
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 The Americanization of Emily Movie Review at Hollywood Video
2003 (R) Darkly comic crime-thriller profiles a group of American soldiers whose criminal network in Germany begins to unravel just as the Berlin Wall starts to come down.
1970 (R) As the insanity of war rages around him, an American bombardier seeks to be declared insane to escape further duty during WWII.
With its award-winning screenplay, excellent performances, inspired lunacy, this is essential viewing for fans of hilariously dark social satire.
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A happy-go-lucky American naval officer (Garner) with no appetite for war discovers to his horror that he may be slated to be
Review: A happy-go-lucky American naval officer (Garner) with no appetite for war discovers to his horror that he may be slated to become the first casualty of the Normandy invasion as part of a military PR effort in this fl comedy-romance.
Meanwhile, he spreads the charisma in an effort to woo and uplift Emily (Andrews), a depressed English woman who has suffered the loss of her husband, father, and brother during the war.
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The NY Times review of The Americanization of Emily, a Arthur Hiller film starring James Garner and Julie Andrews.
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A cynical American Naval officer first clashes with and then falls in love with his idealistic British driver who is a war widow.
After convincing her to enjoy life and stop being so altruistic, he is selected by the Navy's PR machine to become "the Unknown Sailor," the first man to die landing at Normandy on D-Day, a death that will prove that the Navy can't be equaled, especially by the Army, in bravery.
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In the course of their carousing, and of his official dog-robber duties, Charlie meets Emily (Julie Andrews) an attractive and firm-bosomed WREN assigned to chauffeuring officers between meetings.
She has been married to a pilot who was inconsiderate enough to get his fanny creamed the very first time he went out, and she has established high and restrictive criteria for her interest in males in the future.
From that point on, we are allowed to share in an old fashioned romance with the war taking a back seat for the time being.
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 The Burble: The Americanization of Emily - problems with satire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Americanization of Emily - problems with satire
When it does tell what I want to hear (like this movie, Emily), it tends to be long-winded.
There are good moments in The Americanization of Emily but not enough to prompt me to give it a whole-hearted endorsement.
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 DVD : The Americanization of Emily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (Marty) sinks his satirical fangs into this story of an American naval officer (James Garner) selected to be the first victim at the invasion of Normandy.
Julie Andrews plays a prim, British war widow who falls for him.
I absolutley loved the movie until the end when I was a afraid that such a great movie was going to end up with a crap ending but it all worked out (you'll understand after you see it).
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 Julie Andrews at Reel Classics
Seems I don't mind making love to a scoundrel, but I think it's immoral to marry one." --as Emily in THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY (1964).
Also in 1964, before the release of MARY POPPINS, the word had gotten around about Julie and she was cast opposite James Garner in Arthur Hiller's military comedy/drama THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY.
Probably the most famous role of Julie's career, that of Maria von Trapp in THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) was oddly enough one she was skeptical about taking due to the sometimes overly-sugary sweetness of the Broadway version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical.
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