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4 giorni fa · She worked as a publicist for film producer Arthur P. Jacobs until focusing on managing the acting careers of Buddy and Jodie. Although Foster was officially named Alicia, her siblings began calling her "Jodie", and the name stuck. Foster was a gifted child who learned to read at the age of three.
6 mag 2024 · Producer Arthur P. Jacobs, who secured Fox’s $5.8 million financing after being rejected by almost every other studio, was determined to create a prestige picture and not an exploitation...
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11 mag 2024 · By ROB KELLY. Producer Arthur P. Jacobs had a vision. That vision was to take Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel (which the author himself dismissed as an inferior work) and turn it into a sci-fi epic. Most of the studios in Hollywood turned Jacobs down, even after he had acquired mega-star Charlton Heston to play the lead.
15 mag 2024 · Arthur P Jacobs, the producing supremo behind the series, sent Dehn a telegram simply stating, ‘Apes exist. Sequel required’. Dehn set to work on what would become Escape , which moves the Apes series away from post-apocalyptic dystopia firmly into the realms of sci-fi by dialling further into the time travel aspects of the original.
16 mag 2024 · Based on the novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle, the film centres on a group of astronauts—led by George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston )—who crash-land on a strange, seemingly distant planet ruled by civilized apes. Captured and caged, Taylor eventually persuades the chimpanzee scientists Zira ( Kim Hunter) and Cornelius ( Roddy ...
10 mag 2024 · The novel Planet of the Apes came to the attention of producer Arthur P. Jacobs almost by accident. Boulle’s literary agent, Alain Bernheim, wanted to suggest that Jacobs adapt one of the novels by the young and popular French writer Françoise Sagan, but remembered that Jacobs had once said, “I wish King Kong didn’t exist ...
13 mag 2024 · Producer Arthur P. Jacobs felt that Robinson was too expensive for a role that could be filled instead by a “good English actor” at a third of the cost to hire Robinson. There were issues with Robinson’s health — he had a heart problems — and the physical challenges the makeup and appliances would cause him, not to mention the extreme heat of the climate they were shooting in.
