Ton Ten Contributors - Jigsaw (1949)
I recently purchased this film noir movie via a collection of 100 mysteries. I have never seen this movie before today. It is an average film noir movie with a good cast. Here are the top 10 contributors that brought this story to the screen.
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John Roeburt was born on 15 March 1909 in New York, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Jigsaw (1949), The Vise (1954) and Dead to the World (1961). He was married to Agda Keisla. He died on 22 May 1972 in Fire Island, New York, USA.- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Fletcher Markle was born on 27 March 1921 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was a writer and producer, known for Thriller (1960), Studio One (1948) and Jigsaw (1949). He was married to Dorothy Conradt, Mercedes McCambridge and Helen Blanche Willis. He died on 23 May 1991.asked by Tower Pictures to direct- Writer
- Editorial Department
- Producer
Vincent McConnor was born on 8 November 1907 in Maryland, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Lights Out (1946), Front Row Center (1955) and Jigsaw (1949). He died on 6 July 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.wrote screenplay along with Fletcher Markle- Music Department
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Composer, author and conductor Robert Wilson Stringer, a high-school graduate, took his music education in private study. A protégé of Herbert Stothart, he was a devotee of the music of Igor Stravinsky. While he was composing music for the concert hall, he was named chief of the music-editing department at Metro Goldwyn Mayer. At MGM, Stothart gave Stringer the opportunity to compose the musical setting ("The Spell", patterned by Stringer after the "Dance of the Nuns" from Stravinsky's "Petrouchka", orchestrated by Murray Cutter and conducted by Stothart) for the famous scene in "The Wizard of Oz" where Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman dance through a poppy field towards the Emerald City. Stringer also wrote music for the Broadway revue "New Faces of 1956", radio scores for "Broadway Is My Beat" and "Studio One", and music for industrial films and commercials. Joining ASCAP in 1962, his popular-music compositions include "Theme from 'The Nurses'".in charge of the music department- Cinematographer
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
Don Malkames was born on 7 April 1904 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Project X (1949), Man Against Crime (1949) and Cry Murder (1950). He died on 24 November 1986 in Yonkers, New York, USA.director of photography- Actor
- Producer
- Director
President of the Dramatic Club at Cornell University, Franchot Tone gave up the family business for acting, making his Broadway debut in "The Age of Innocence".
Tone then went into movies for MGM, making his film debut (at Paramount Pictures) in The Wiser Sex (1932). With his theatrical background, Tone became one of the most talented movie actors in Hollywood.plays lead role of Howard Malloy- Actress
- Soundtrack
Teenage fashion model and Earl Carroll showgirl Jean Wallace failed in her first bid to break into movies, after MGM discovered that she was only 17, not 19 years old - as she had claimed. Being underage meant that she could only work four hours a day (and with an official tutor) and so her bit in Ziegfeld Girl (1941) was all there was. At Paramount, her luck improved. Signed to a six months contract (plus complimentary tutor) the platinum blonde insurance salesman's daughter made her first motion picture appearance in a credited part in Louisiana Purchase (1941). Her next stop was 20th Century Fox where she spent five years under contract, but had very little to do after refusing to appear in Kiss of Death (1947), not a good career move, as it turned out. For the next few years, Jean's screen career was overshadowed by her turbulent private life.
A chance meeting in July 1941 between Jean and the actor Franchot Tone, formerly Joan Crawford partner and twice her age, had led to a whirlwind romance, seven years of rocky marriage and, ultimately, divorce. Jean twice attempted suicide, the first with sleeping pills in 1946, the second by stabbing herself in the abdomen in 1949. During the acrimonious divorce proceedings that followed, Jean alleged extreme jealousy and an affair with peroxide blond siren Barbara Payton, while Tone claimed that his wife had been involved with gangster Johnny Stompanato, bodyguard of infamous L.A. mobster Mickey Cohen (Stompanato later came to grief at the hands of Lana Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, in 1958). In 1950, Jean married soldier James Randall in San Diego, but this union was annulled after just five months. Having lost custody of her two children to Tone, she then lost her driver's license, following a charge of drunk driving. Things could only get better.
In September 1951, Jean got married for the third time. From here on, her career became inextricably linked to that of her husband, actor and director Cornel Wilde, who assumed a 'Svengali'-like role in attempting to mould her into an actress of stature. She was featured opposite him in a number of mostly routine B-movies, made by his production company Theadora. Best among those was a lesser film noir, The Big Combo (1955), where she played a self-destructive gangster's moll torn between evil crime boss Richard Conte and nice police lieutenant, Wilde. In the colourful Maracaibo (1958),which was largely shot on location, she was an icy journalist, one third of a love triangle, involving Wilde as a 'Red' Adair-type action hero, dousing oil fires in Venezuela (featuring in the cast a young Michael Landon of Bonanza (1959) fame). Jean sang in the soundtrack, which she also did for both Star of India (1954), and Beach Red (1967) (though her acting part in this war picture was somewhat perfunctory). In Sword of Lancelot (1963), she was Guinevere to Wilde's Lancelot, who also co-produced and directed. Her last starring role was in Wilde's No Blade of Grass (1970), in which a family escapes from a post-apocalyptic world, not unlike I Am Legend (2007)(or its earlier incarnation, The Omega Man (1971)).
After divorcing Wilde in 1980, Jean lived with a menagerie of pets (including two snakes and a tarantula) in Beverly Hills until her death in February 1990.plays female lead - Barbara Whitfield- American character actor of vast stage experience who appeared infrequently but memorably in films. A native of Albany, Indiana, he attended Princeton University, where he was an honors student and Phi Beta Kappa. In 1929, he joined the University Players in Massachusetts, joining and eventually sharing a New York City apartment with a trio of struggling performers: Henry Fonda, Joshua Logan, and James Stewart. While Fonda and Stewart found their greatest success in Hollywood, Logan and McCormick gravitated to and were most closely tied the New York stage. McCormick also became one of the busiest actors in radio drama. He made occasional movies, such as when the Broadway cast of Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset" reunited for the film version. He won fame as Luther Billis in Logan's production of "South Pacific" (the role was played by Ray Walston in the film) and as "Sergeant King" in No Time for Sergeants (1958) a part he repeated in the movie version. Cancer claimed him in 1962 at the age of 54.plays character of Charles Riggs
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American character actor who specialized in underworld types, despite a far greater range. A native of the Bronx, he participated in plays in school, then attended City College of New York. In 1930, he was accepted into Eva Le Gallienne's company, where he became friendly with another young actor, one day to be known as John Garfield. The two appeared in a number of plays, both with Le Gallienne's company and with the highly-politicized Group Theatre, before Lawrence was given a film contract with Columbia Pictures. His scarred complexion and brooding appearance made him a natural for heavies, and he played scores of gangsters and mob bosses over the next six decades. Nevertheless, he could turn in fine performances in very different kinds of roles as well, such as his bewildered mountain boy in The Shepherd of the Hills (1941).
Following the Second World War, as anti-Communist fervor gripped America, Lawrence found himself under scrutiny for his political leanings. When called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), he admitted he had once been a member of the Communist Party. The Committee broke down his resolve and he "named names" (including Sterling Hayden, Lionel Stander, Anne Revere, Larry Parks, Karen Morley and Jeff Corey). Nonetheless, he was blacklisted and departed for Europe, where he continued to make films, often in leading roles. Following the demise of the blacklist, he returned to America and resumed his position as a familiar and talented purveyor of gangland types. He was also a writer and director.excellent character actor playing Angelo Agostini- Actress
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Winifred Lenihan was born on 6 December 1898 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Working Girls (1931) and Jigsaw (1949). She was married to Frank W. Wheeler (VP of A&P). She died on 27 July 1964 in Sea Cliff, New York, USA.plays role of Mrs. Hartley