Around the World in Eighty Days
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“Around the World in Eighty Days” - novel
- In Jules Verne
…and, perhaps the most popular, Around the World in 80 Days (1956).
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The best-known film version, Around the World in 80 Days (1956), starred David Niven, Cantinflas, and Shirley MacLaine and won the Academy Award for best picture.
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Farrow
- In John Farrow: Films of the 1950s
…directing to coscript the adventure-comedy Around the World in 80 Days (1956), for which he won his only Oscar. He then remade Five Came Back as Back from Eternity (1956), with Anita Ekberg as the romantic interest. The Unholy Wife (1957) was a rather uninspired noir in which blonde bombshell…
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Niven
- In David Niven
…The Moon Is Blue (1953), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Pink Panther (1963), and Death on the Nile (1978).
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Oscar for best picture, 1956
Oscars to Lindon for best cinematography, to Poe, Farrow, and Perelman for best adapted screenplay, and to Young for best music score of a dramatic or comedy picture, 1956
Perelman
- In S.J. Perelman
…his collaboration on the film Around the World in 80 Days he shared an Academy Award for best screenwriter for 1956. His magazine pieces were collected in a long series of books, including Strictly from Hunger (1937), Westward Ha!, or, Around the World in Eighty Clichés (1948), and The Road…
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Romero
- In Cesar Romero
>Around the World in 80 Days (1956), and Donovan’s Reef (1963). During the 1980s he portrayed the husband of the character played by Jane Wyman on the TV evening soap opera Falcon Crest.
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