Word: codirector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excitement, young (33) Mike Reilly found himself elevated to codirector of the White House Detail. His wartime stewardship of Franklin Roosevelt's safety is recorded in this sequel to Starling of the White House (TIME, March 11, 1946). Readers will find it an amusing, properly reverent account of the Detail's war of nerves against a largely nonexistent army of assassins...
...more talented teams now making movies, have already collaborated on four Noel Coward productions. The trio that first worked together on Coward's In Which We Serve: Anthony Havelock-Allan (associate producer), Ronald Neame (cameraman), and David Lean, who was then only 23, as cutter and codirector. The three got along so well together that in 1942 they decided to form their own production unit, Cineguild. On Coward's suggestion they next adapted This Happy Breed, writing their own screenplay with occasional help from Coward. After doing Blithe Spirit, they felt sure enough of themselves...