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Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty. It was the first Best Picture winner to be based on a television program, being adapted from a 1953 teleplay of the same name which he had also directed. Mann is also the only director other than Billy Wilder and Roman Polanski to win an Oscar for his direction and a Cannes Palme d'Or for the same film. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America.
Mann was born in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, the son of Ora (née Patton), a civic worker and teacher, and Delbert Martin Mann, Sr., a college professor. Mann graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. After school, he served with the U.S. Army Air Corps in WW II, then got discharged after service in the European theater. He then attended Yale Drama School, and graduated, followed by work in theater and eventually, TV and movies. He was married to Ann Caroline Mann from 1941 until his wife's death in 2001. Mann died from pneumonia on November 11, 2007 at a Los Angeles hospital.
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15 March 1996
He went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academy Award winner.
01 November 1978
The wife of a paralytic becomes involved in an extra-marital affair, with his permission.
23 January 1994
Lily and her son John live alone in a small town as her husband has been killed fighting the war in France.
24 November 1986
A profile in courage, the film examines the trauma and effort that Senator Edward Kennedy's son went through after losing his leg to a rare form of cancer and with the rehabilitation that was required.
19 September 1972
An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.
28 January 1972
When a newlywed woman is taken to her husband's hometown to meet his mother, she is possessed by the vengeful spirit of his previous wife.
02 May 1978
A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to put him in a home for the aged.
02 April 1978
A young advertising executive, blinded in a gun accident, attempts to rebuild his life and career by living through a nightclub entertainer who befriends him.
14 June 1962
Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud.
07 March 1965
A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
20 January 1965
A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine.
01 December 1969
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
11 April 1955
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood.
01 December 1970
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr.
09 April 1957
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them.
14 November 1979
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation.
20 December 1961
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods.
02 January 1978
JoAnn Hammil faces a harrowing fight to rediscover her personal identity when her husband of 15 years announces that he is leaving her and their children to search for the indefinable joy he feels he is missing from his life.
09 September 2003
Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth.
24 April 1973
At his court-martial, an American Army officer renounces his country. For his punishment he is ordered to spend the rest of his life on a ship that sails all over the world, but he will never be allowed to set foot on his country's soil, nor come within sight of it, nor be allowed to know anything about the country.
19 September 1955
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die.
20 December 1967
When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.
12 March 1958
Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion.
18 December 1958
The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel.
21 June 1963
A B-52 commander must prepare his men to pass a grueling inspection.
22 December 1971
Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he cannot claim his inheritance.
08 December 1994
Lily Covington, a Manhattan housekeeper, embarks on a trip to the rural Alabama town of her youth. To Lily's surprise, her employer's nine-year-old son Michael stows away for the ride.
20 May 1959
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty.
20 December 1982
12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their upcoming honeymoon.
08 June 1987
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.
15 December 1986
Gen. George S. Patton now works a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of dealing with the difficulty of adapting to his dramatic change of lifestyle, Patton is involved in an auto wreck that leaves him in critical condition.
28 September 1960
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt.
11 October 1953
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them.
24 May 1953
Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married.
04 October 1925
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route.
02 May 1976
A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatically changes.
20 December 1983
After experiencing several stressful situations within a short time — including the failure of the family business and the loss of her mother — Janet Broderick becomes ill.
01 November 1968
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfather, who has been at odds with the villagers for years and lives in seclusion on the alm.
27 March 1975
The curse of the legendary blue Hope Diamond on all its owners is dramatized from the gem's discovery in 17th Century India until its donation to the Smithsonian Institute.
09 September 1954
A young divorcée becomes involved with her widowed boss.
24 April 1988
A teenager grows up during the onset of the American revolution.
20 December 1977
Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier.
29 September 1976
The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.
05 February 1982
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them.
08 May 1978
The story of Tom and Joann Hammil, a divorced couple who explore new relationships while maintaining their mutual affection a year after their sixteen-year marriage has ended.
30 May 1955
Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in.
25 September 1958
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones.
11 March 1991
Ironclads is a 1991 made-for-television movie produced by Ted Turner's TNT company about the events behind the creation of the CSS Virginia from the remains of the USS Merrimack and the battle between the Virginia and the USS Monitor in the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862-March 9, 1862.
14 November 1983
Julie Harris performs her one-woman show based on the life of Charlotte Brontë.
27 December 1961
Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, who he befriends.
14 April 1974
This acclaimed television drama tells the story of Edith Wilson, second wife of President Woodrow Wilson.
18 June 1975
A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootlegging old woman, is taken by the authorities and made the ward of a childless couple.
21 December 1981
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
16 October 1968
A famous fashion photographer is trapped in a remote South American country with a beautiful model and together with some unscrupulous characters, become involved in the search for a lost diamond mine.
06 October 1980
A young man wishes to adopt a problematical eight-year-old boy being kept in an institution. Simply because he is single, he has an uphill battle with the government bureaucracy, and particularly with a power-hungry administrator.
01 January 1984
The 1930 Hollywood-produced anti-war film "Nothing New in the West" is one of the great works in film history.
15 July 1966
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
07 February 1979
Diane is happily married. But, one day while travelling she meets a dashing architect. With some relief, she parts ways with him at the airport, her resistance to his alluring manner having been tested.
19 January 1992
In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is wrongly imprisoned and refused release from a mental institution.
27 September 1959
An adaptation of Budd Schulberg's incendiary 1941 novel about the rise of an unscrupulous Hollywood producer.
