Jerome Hellman


Producer

Biography

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Fine Madness, A (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Poems Taking Shape Having just evaded another pack of bill collectors, struggling New York poet Samson Shillitoe (Sean Connery) flees to the apartment where, he discovers, his wife Rhoda (Joanne Woodward), isn't ready to join his escape, in A Fine Madness, 1966.
Fine Madness, A (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Hank Longfellow At his day job shampooing the carpet in an executive office, married poet Samson Shillitoe (Sean Connery) feels no inhibition toward secretary Miss Walnicki (Sue Ane Langdon), in A Fine Madness, 1966, screenplay by Elliott Baker from his acclaimed first novel.
Midnight Cowboy (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Everybody's Talkin' From director John Schlesinger, from Waldo Salt’s screenplay and the James Leo Herlihy novel, the captivating opening, shot on location in Big Spring, Texas, introducing Jon Voight as Joe Buck, and Fred Neil’s song performed by Harry Nilsson, in the 1969 Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, also starring Dustin Hoffman.
Midnight Cowboy (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Terrific Shirt Joe (Jon Voight) failing further as a hustler in New York, counting his dwindling money and meeting Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman, Voight’s fellow Best Actor nominee, in his first scene), his sticky nickname provided by Jonathan Kramer, followed by the famous mostly accidental taxi scene, in John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy, 1969.
Fine Madness, A (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Seven Sin Society Broke poet Samson Shillitoe (Sean Connery) is a reckless stand-in reader for the matronly "Seven Arts Society" in New York, requiring a rescue from his waitress wife Rhoda (Joanne Woodward), who got him the gig, in A Fine Madness, 1966, directed by Irvin Kershner.
Fine Madness, A (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Ends Of The Spectrum Patrick O'Neal has just been introduced as Manhattan celebrity shrink West, listening to himself on the radio, and joining Jean Seberg as his unstable wife Lydia, fretting then joined by his colleague (Werner Peters), in A Fine Madness, 1966, starring Sean Connery and directed by Irvin Kershner.
World Of Henry Orient, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Beautiful White Nurses Director George Roy Hill's idyllic Central Park in which Marian (Merrie Spaeth) awaits Valerie (Tippy Boyd) who together have their first encounter with the title character (Peter Sellers) and girlfriend Stella (Paula Prentiss), in The World Of Henry Orient, 1964.
World Of Henry Orient, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Dress Like A Chinaman Conniving society mom Isabel (Angela Lansbury) calls first her paramour Joe (Peter Duchin) then befuddled and egotistical pianist Orient (Peter Sellers) when her daughter has flown the coop, in The World Of Henry Orient, 1964.
World Of Henry Orient, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) If This Is Music Inside Carnegie Hall for director George Roy Hill's send up of Avant-garde orchestral music, Peter Sellers the title character in concert, Phyllis Thaxter, Bibi Osterwald and teens Merrie Spaeth and Tippy Walker in his audience, in The World Of Henry Orient, 1964.

Companions

Nancy Ellison
Wife
Former poet, photographer.

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