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Delbert Mann (1920-2007) was an Oscar®-winning American director. Mann was a B-24 pilot during World War 2, flew 35 bombing missions in the European Theater of Operations. After the war he attended the Yale Drama School. That led him to the movie business. Brown’s IMDb page shows 66 directing credits from 1949 to 1994. This page will rank Delbert Mann movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.
Paddy Chayefsky and Delbert Mann on the set of 1955’s Marty
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I haven’t seen Marty or Separate Tables, I may have seen A Gathering of Eagles, not sure. I think I’ve seen A Touch of Mink or was it Lover Come Back? Can’t remember!
I’m sure I saw a couple of Doris Day films that weren’t Calamity Jane or directed by Hitchcock, but which ones? I don’t know! [bursts into tears]
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Hey Steve….thanks for checking out our Delbert Mann page. Sounds like Mr. Mann has created some confusion for you over the years. A Touch of Mink was a massive hit with Doris and Cary Grant….it is a big ok in my book. I have not seen A Gathering Of Eagles..but I want to. Good stuff as always.
Delbert Mann’s Separate Tables had a great cast: Lancaster/Kerr/Hayworth/Niven -all popular stars – and the prestigious Wendy Hiller.
However a director who has a clutch of great egos gathered for a film always has special problems; and there were heated arguments about the billing arrangements for Separate Tables so that an exasperated Lancaster [who was the biggest star of all of them at that stage but whose production company had money sank in the film] threw in his hand and put his own name last among the 5 stars.
Hayworth and Kerr were the hardest to satisfy and that was resolved by creating 2 sets of original release posters and two sets of cast lists whereby top billing was alternated between Rita and Debs. It will be seen for example that even today Wiki gives Hayworth top billing whereas IMDB puts Kerr in the top spot in the full cast lists
Hey Bob….great information on the behind the scenes activity on Separate Tables. I was not aware of any of this information. Maybe this is why Lancaster pretty much stopped all his behind the scenes work. Lots of great stories of the fights for top billing. I can see Hayworth trying to get that title…as her career was near the end….while Kerr still had awhile to be at the top. Good stuff.
As Bruce’s tables above show Delbert Mann made some great frothy comedies that were highly successful at the box office such as Hudson’s Lover Come Back and Al Leach’s That Touch of Mink both with my Doris; but Del also made “thinking person’s” movies such as Bachelor Party and Dark at the Top of the Stairs which didn’t do so well commercially as they were maybe too serious for the audiences of their day.
Bachelor Party was produced by Burt Lancaster’s personal company Hill/Hecht/Lancaster and is credited with being one of those “mature theme” films -called “ahead of their time” – that finally bankrupted Burt’s company; and it will be seen that WH credits that film with just a $70 million adjusted domestic gross in contrast to the approx $300 million each that Bruce gives the 2 Leach/Hudson/Day films.
However when Bachelor Party was released I had become a mature teenager and a more avid filmgoer so short of the likes of a Myrna Loy movie I would have watched anything at that stage; and I went to see Bachelor Party along with other later Mann perceived ‘dry goods’ movies such as Dark at the Top of the Stairs, the Outsider and Gathering of Eagles. Overall I have seen 9 of the films in Bruce’s Mann tables. Getting closer to you Flora – just one behind this time round!
HUMOROUS RELATED TRIVIA. My father hated Marlon Brando films and in particular Teahouse of the August Moon so dad developed a loathing of Delbert Mann because he assumed that Mann had directed that flick. I had insufficient knowledge of directors to contradict him at first but later was able to point out that it was DANIEL Mann who had directed Teahouse. Dad though [like Joel Hirschhorn and Bruce Cogerson] would never admit that he was wrong so he snapped back “Nonsense – he was so ashamed of Teahouse that he changed his name to Delbert!”
Dan could of course have neatly linked all that together and wound up this post by informing us that Daniel Mann had Directed Charlie Bill Stuart along with Brando in Teahouse whereas Delbert Mann had directed Charlie Bill in Dear Heart which is listed above. The latter is a lovely movie [72% review rated above] and my own fave Delbert Mann film [far better than Teahouse – especially as that one didn’t have a lovely themes song by Henry Mancini – sorry Mumbles!]
“Dear heart wish you were here to warm this night
My dear heart, seems like a year since you’ve been out of my sight
A single room, a table for one
It’s a lonesome town all right
But soon I’ll kiss you hello at our front door
And dear heart I want you to know
I’ll leave your arms never more.”
Hey Bob….interesting comments on Mr. Mann. I do not think I was really aware of him before I was searching through my Best Director Page on the lookout for a new page. Tally count Flora 10, you 9 and me 6.
Speaking of Joel…..do you know since I did that last Joel subject a few months ago….his book….the book…..the holy bible….has been sitting on the book shelf not touched for months….he would be so disappointed in me.
Good trivia on Mann and Marlon and the other Mann. I do believe Marlon has a connection to almost everybody. Good stuff as always.
COGERSON 26 JAN: 8.02 AM
“Speaking of Joel…..do you know since I did that last Joel subject a few months ago….his book….the book…..the holy bible….has been sitting on the book shelf not touched for months….he would be so disappointed in me.”
“Et tu, Brute?” [‘also you, Brutus?’ ]. The Roman dictator Julius Caesar to his great friend Brutus at the moment of Caesar’s assassination, in Act 3 Scene 1 of William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. Caesar’s ‘stab in the back’ by Brutus is reckoned to one of the great betrayals in classical literature. In my view WH’s betrayal of his own idol deserves to be ranked with it.
And Work Horse is right -he occasionally is! – when he implies that in movies many connections can be made to Brando. Here for example in 1953’s Julius Caesar the latter is played by Louis Calhern; Brutus by James Mason; and Antony of course by Marlon.
But as Dan keeps showing us if one thinks about it/researches it well as Dan always does many linking paths can usually be found to ALL the Greats. For example in North by Northwest James Mason – he of the treacherous Brutus – is in turn betrayed by his ‘mistress’ Eva Marie Saint who was Marlon’s girl in On the Waterfront; and Eva ultimately falls into the arms of Al Leach in N by NW. Additionally through all this James is linked to 2 of AFI’s Top 4 all-time greatest male screen legends: Archie ranked 2 and Mumbles at No 4.
I have seen 10 Delbert Mann movies, including the top 5.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Marty.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.
Favourite Delbert Mann Movies:
Marty
Dear Heart
Separate Tables
Lover Come Back
That Touch of Mink
Fitzwilly
Other Delbert Mann Movies I Have Seen:
Middle of the Night
The Outsider
Mister Buddwing
The Pink Jungle
Hey Flora….thanks for checking out our Delbert Mann page. Knocking out another Best Director Oscar winner. I have seen 6 of his movies. His Top 4, then Night Crossing which I saw in theaters and his lowest rated movie Kidnapped. I actually finally saw Kidnapped on You Tube a few onths ago. Of the 10 you have seen…I have seen 4 of them…all in your favorites…and in the Top 4. Good stuff as always.
Great UMR Page
Thank you Mike.