Romain Gary - Turner Classic Movies

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Birds in Peru (1968)

Birds in Peru (1968)

The Longest Day (1962)

The Roots of Heaven (1958)

The Impostors (1994)

Source Material (From Novel)

White Dog (1982)

Source Material (From Novel)

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Longest Day, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Maybe I Was Wrong About Rhoda

Longest Day, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Request Reluctantly Approved

Biography

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Birds in Peru (1968)

Writer (Feature Film)

Birds in Peru (1968)

The Longest Day (1962)

The Roots of Heaven (1958)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

The Impostors (1994)

Source Material (From Novel)

White Dog (1982)

Source Material (From Novel)

Womanlight (1979)

Source Material (From Novel)

Misc. Crew (TV Mini-Series)

Genghis Cohn (1993)

Source Material (From Novel)

Life Events

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Longest Day, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Maybe I Was Wrong About Rhoda First appearance of Rod Steiger as a fictional American navy destroyer commander, joining in the overnight assault in the early hours of June 6 , 1944, then on the deck Jeffrey Hunter as fictional Fuller, Joseph Lowe as “Sparrow,” Peter Helm as Mac, more anecdotes as producer Darryl F. Zanuck builds toward the D-Day invasion, in The Longest Day, 1962.

Longest Day, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Request Reluctantly Approved Peter Lawford as Lovat, (Scottish-born British aristocrat Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, a real person) minimizing his oratory en route to the D-Day invasion, then Edmond O’Brien as Gen. Barton, and Henry Fonda (then 56, the same age as his character) finally appearing 90 minutes into the picture as Gen. Teddy Roosevelt Jr., dramatizing a famous actual event, in The Longest Day, 1962.

Lady L (1965) -- (Movie Clip) You'll Fail As An Assassin Louise (Sophia Loren), bearing news, catches boyfriend Armand (Paul Newman) drawing the short straw in a plot with his new communist pals (Daniel Emilfork, Jacques Dufilho, Eugene Deckers), at their Alpine hideout, in writer-director Peter Ustinov's Lady L, 1965.

Lady L (1965) -- (Movie Clip) You Drove Beautifully Picturesque and wacky opening from writer and director Peter Ustinov, with star Sophia Loren, age 30, playing the heroine at 80, from Lady L, 1965, from a novel by Romain Gary.

Man Who Understood Women, The -- (Movie Clip) An Intoxicated Man! Showy American film-maker Willi (Henry Fonda), with aide Preacher (Myron McCormick), observes his wife (Leslie Caron) in an enraptured dance with soldier Marco (Cesare Danova), in Nunnally Johnson's The Man Who Understood Women, 1959.

Man Who Understood Women, The -- (Movie Clip) Open, Nice Opening credits, festivities in Nice, and Leslie Caron (as French "Anne") with Myron McCormick (as American "Preacher") from Nunnally Johnson's The Man Who Understood Women, 1959, also starring Henry Fonda.

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