Tag: Herbert Ross

Pennies From Heaven Script

Script by:Dennis Potter (Writer)
Directed by:Herbert Ross
Year:1981
IMDb:tt0082894

Plot:A musical set in the great Busby Berkeley style. In Chicago during the depression, sheet music salesman, Arthur Parker, is trying to sell his products, but it's not easy to convince unwilling music store owners to buy them. Although he's already married to the somewhat drab Joan, when he meets school teacher Eileen in a music store, he falls in love with her.
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Script

Script by:Arthur Conan Doyle (Characters), Nicholas Meyer (Novel)
Directed by:Herbert Ross
Year:1976
IMDb:tt0075194

Plot:Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
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The Owl And The Pussycat Script

Directed by:Herbert Ross
Year:1970
IMDb:tt0066195

Plot:Meek, owlish Felix (George Segal) and strident, catty Doris (Barbra Streisand) live in the same apartment building. His incessant typing bothers her; her gentlemen callers bother him. Felix informs the landlord of her activities, so Doris moves in on Felix. When they both get thrown out, they move in with Barney (Robert Klein) . . . until they drive him out! That's when Felix and Doris finally decide to put theory into practice. But do opposites attract?
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My Blue Heaven Script

Script by:Nora Ephron (Writer)
Directed by:Herbert Ross
Year:1990
IMDb:tt0100212

Plot:FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...
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I Ought To Be In Pictures Script

Script by:Neil Simon (Screenplay), Neil Simon (Theatre Play)
Directed by:Herbert Ross
Year:1982
IMDb:tt0084109

Plot:Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.
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Nijinsky Script

Script by:Hugh Wheeler (Writer), Romola Nijinsky (Writer)
Directed by:Herbert Ross
Year:1980
IMDb:tt0081235

Plot:The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes specifically to seduce Nijinsky. After a series of misunderstandings with Diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, Nijinsky succumbs to Romola's charms and marries her, after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins.
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