Marty (Film)
- Ernest Borgnine: Marty Piletti
- Betsy Blair: Clara Snyder
- Esther Minciotti: Theresa Piletti
- Augusta Ciolli: Aunt Catherine
- Joe Mantell: Angie
- Karen Steele: Virginia
- Jerry Paris: Tommy
Marty is a film drama directed by Delbert Mann from the year 1955.
Action
Marty Piletti, a portly Italo American butcher, is still living at age 34 with his mother Theresa. His attempts to find a partner, have so far been disappointing, so he spends his evenings now prefer watching TV. When his mother urges him to finally find a wife, he learns in a dance hall, the teacher Clara, who became violate the same evening of their appointment. The two get closer and spend the next few hours together. Marty is Clara also his mother, who shows up initially pleased. But Marty's friends react with ridicule and call Clara as ugly and too old. Even Theresa is - influenced by her sister - at once against the acquaintance of her son because she fears of losing him to the other woman. However, Marty decides against all odds to continue the contact with Clara: He calls them back - just as he had the night before, agreed with her.
Background
Marty is based on Delbert Mann's eponymous TV movie from 1953 in which Rod Steiger played the lead role. The screenplay also wrote Paddy Chayefsky.
The film adaptation was produced by Harold Hecht and actor Burt Lancaster. According to rumors, they speculated on a failure to obtain a tax advantage.
Rod Steiger was not occupied again. Instead, Ernest Borgnine received the lead role, who had already been tried for Eternity and Veracruz with Lancaster in front of the camera.
The shooting took place in the fall of 1954, the budget was about $ 343,000. Marty is still the only film for its advertising campaign more money was spent ( ie $ 400,000 ) premiered as for the production itself On April 11, 1955 the film in New York. On 2 September 1955, he entered the German cinemas. 1959 Marty was shown as the first American postwar production in the Soviet Union. The film was a worldwide success and played some three million dollars profit a.
1991 turned Chris Columbus under the title Mom, I and the two of us with John Candy in the lead role, a remake of the substance.
Reviews
"The simple, touching, a little didactic fable thrive under the hands of the director Delbert Mann to a very honest picture of the life of ordinary people in America. Some families dialogs and dreary Entertainment scenes are film novelistic masterpieces. "
Time: "The actors, under shrewd direction, prove almost everywhere as good as Their material (...) Ernest Borgnine as Marty lives up to all the promise he Showed as the sadist in ' From Here to Eternity ', and at the sametime. brilliantly shatters the type- cast molded for he himself did in His picture Marty is fully what the author Intended him to be -. a Hamlet of butchers. "
Encyclopedia of the International film: " ( The ) film is played in exactly the milieu description, psychologically sensitive and outstanding."
Reclam's movie guide: " In those days was " Marty " in Hollywood as a revolutionary, as a realistic portrayal of everyday life of ordinary people from a distance, one can see that this everyday dyed romantic, the supposed realism is dressed up with a lot of sentimentality.. "
Awards
The European premiere of the film took place at the International Film Festival of Cannes 1955, where Marty best film and Delbert Mann received the Palme d'Or as a OCIC Award.
Marty was the first American production, which was awarded a Golden Palm.
At the Oscars 1956, the film for Best Supporting Actor was (Joe Mantell ), Best Supporting Actress ( Betsy Blair), the best Black and White Design ( Ted Haworth, Walter M. Simonds and Robert Priestley ) and the best black and white camera (Joseph LaShelle ) nominated and won awards in the categories Best Film ( Harold Hecht ), Best Director ( Delbert Mann ), Best Adapted Screenplay ( Paddy Chayefsky ) and Best Actor ( Ernest Borgnine ).
Delbert Mann was the first director who was honored for his debut with the Director Oscar. Marty is still the shortest film ever to win the Oscar for Best Picture and the only one who simultaneously won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair received at the British Film Academy Awards 1956 Best Actor Awards, the film itself was nominated.
In the Danish Bodil Awards Marty was named Best American film. The film also received a Directors Guild of America Award, a Writers Guild of America Award, two New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor, two National Board of Review Award for Best Film and for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Drama.
1994 Marty was included in the National Film Registry.