Sweet smell of success

Resource Information

The work Sweet smell of success represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Sweet smell of success

Statement of responsibility

Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Hill, Hecht and Lancaster present a Norma-Curtleigh Productions picture released through United Artists ; screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman ; produced by James Hill ; directed by Alexander Mackendrick

Creator

• Sweet smell of success (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Nichols, Barbara, 1929-1976
• Chico Hamilton Quintet
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Curtleigh Productions
• Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Norma Productions
• United Artists Corporation
• Atwater, Edith
• Bernstein, Elmer
• Boyle, Edward G.
• Carrere, Edward, 1906-1984
• Curtis, Tony, 1925-2010
• Donnell, Jeff, 1921-1988
• Frisco, Joe, 1889-1958
• Gabler, Neal
• Grant, Mary, 1917-2002
• Hamilton, Chico, 1921-2013
• Harrison, Susan, 1938-2019
• Hill, James, 1916-2001
• Howe, James Wong
• Katz, Fred, 1919-2013
• Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994
• Lehman, Ernest, 1915-2005
• Levene, Sam, 1905-1980
• Mackendrick, Alexander, 1912-1993
• Meyer, Emile, 1910-1987
• Milner, Martin, 1931-2015
• Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963
• Solomon, Jack

Actor

• Levene, Sam, 1905-1980
• Curtis, Tony, 1925-2010
• Frisco, Joe, 1889-1958
• Nichols, Barbara, 1929-1976
• Harrison, Susan, 1938-2019
• Meyer, Emile, 1910-1987
• Atwater, Edith
• Milner, Martin, 1931-2015
• Donnell, Jeff, 1921-1988
• Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994

Artistic director

• Carrere, Edward, 1906-1984

Cinematographer

• Howe, James Wong

Composer

• Katz, Fred, 1919-2013
• Bernstein, Elmer
• Hamilton, Chico, 1921-2013

Conductor

• Bernstein, Elmer

Costume designer

• Grant, Mary, 1917-2002

Director

• Mackendrick, Alexander, 1912-1993

Producer

• Hill, James, 1916-2001

Screenwriter

• Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963
• Lehman, Ernest, 1915-2005

Set designer

• Boyle, Edward G.

Sound designer

• Solomon, Jack

Subject

• Sweet smell of success (Motion picture)
• Brothers and sisters -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Film noir
• Film noir
• Gossip columnists -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Jazz musicians -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Sweet smell of success (Motion picture)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Film noir
• Feature films
• Drama
• Fiction films

Language

eng

Summary

A barbaric Broadway gossip columnist ropes an unprincipled press agent into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister

Related

• James Wong Howe : cinematographer
• Gabler on Winchell
• Mackendrick: the man who walked away

Member of

• Criterion collection, 555

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Photographed by James Wong Howe ; music scored and conducted by Elmer Bernstein ; songs by Chico Hamilton and Fred Katz ; art director, Edward Carrere ; costumes designed by Mary Grant ; set decorator, Edward Boyle ; sound recording, Jack Solomon

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Rating: Not rated

Language note

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing

LC call number

• PN1997
• PS3562.E4283

LC item number

• .S94 1957b
• S942 1957b

PerformerNote

Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Marty Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, Joe Frisco, Emile Meyer, Edith Atwater, Chico Hamilton Quintet

Runtime

96

Series statement

Criterion collection

Series volume

555

Technique

live action