
Elaine May
Oyuncu · d. 1932 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Elaine Iva May (née Berlin; born April 21, 1932) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and director. She first gained fame in the 1950s for her improvisational comedy routines with Mike Nichols before transitioning her career, regularly breaking the mold as a writer and director of several critically acclaimed films. She has received numerous awards, including a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013, and an Honorary Academy Award in 2022. In 1955, May moved to Chicago and became a founding member of the Compass Players, an improvisational theater group. She began working alongside Nichols and in 1957, they both quit the group to form their own stage act, Nichols and May. In New York, they performed nightly in clubs in Greenwich Village alongside Joan Rivers and Woody Allen, as well as on the Broadway stage. They also made regular appearances on television and radio broadcasts. They released multiple comedy albums and received four Grammy Award nominations, winning Best Comedy Album for An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May in 1962. Their collaboration was covered in the PBS documentary Nichols and May: Take Two (1996). May infrequently acted in films, including Luv, Enter Laughing (both 1967), California Suite (1978), and Small Time Crooks (2000). She became the first female director with a Hollywood deal since Ida Lupino when she directed the 1971 black screwball comedy A New Leaf. Experimenting with genres, she directed the dark romantic comedy The Heartbreak Kid (1972), the gangster film Mikey and Nicky (1976), and adventure comedy Ishtar (1987). May later earned acclaim writing the screenplays for Warren Beatty's Heaven Can Wait (1978), and Mike Nichols' The Birdcage (1996) and Primary Colors (1998). Heaven Can Wait and Primary Colors each earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, while the latter won her the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. May returned to acting in Woody Allen's Amazon Prime series Crisis in Six Scenes (2016) and on Broadway in the revival of the Kenneth Lonergan play The Waverly Gallery (2018) the latter of which earned her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The win made May the second-oldest performer behind Lois Smith to win a Tony Award for acting. In 2022, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences gave May an Honorary Academy Award for her "bold, uncompromising approach to filmmaking, as a writer, director, and actress". Description above from the Wikipedia article Elaine May, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Film7.6DramRomantikBenjamin Braddock, anne ve babasının onun mezuniyetini kutlamak için verdiği bir partide Bayan Robinson tarafından baştan çıkartılır. Benjamin utangaç ve toydur, Bayan Robinson ise babasının yakın arkadaşlarından birinin karısıdır. Bir ilişkiye başlarlar. Ama sonra Benjamin, Bayan Robinson’ın kızı Elaine’e âşık olur.
Film6.1KorkuDramYayıncı Will Randall, giderek yaşlanmakta olan pasif bir adamdır. Genç ve daha başarılı bir adam çalıştığı yerde işe girince Randall kendini tehdit altında hissetmeye başlar.Bu sıralarda geçirdiği bir kaza sonucu bir kurt tarafından ısırılır. Isırılmanın ardından giderek saldırganlaşmaya, daha agresif ve aktif bir adam haline gelen Randall iş yerinde patronun kızı Laura'yla tanışır. Laura yavaş yavaş bu adama aşık olmakta, neler yaşadığını öğrenememesine rağmen Randall'a yardım etmeye çalışmaktadır. Ancak giderek kurt adama dönüşen Randall'ın kendisi için oluşturduğu tehditten habersizdir. Jim Harrison ve Wesley Stick’in Randall'ın fiziksel değişimi olduğu kadar psikolojik değişimlerine de odaklanan senaryosu Mike Nichols'un yönetmenliğiyle ve oyuncuları Jack Nicholson ile Michelle Pfeiffer'ın başarılı performanslarıyla birleşince ortaya izlemesi keyifli bir yapım çıkıyor.
Film5.9KomediDramThe misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
California Suite
1978 · 127 votes
Film6.5KomediSuçRay Winkler karısıyla beraber büyük hayaller yaşayan bir şehirlidir. Her zaman beleşten para kazanmayı bekleyen Ray günün birinde zengin olacağına inanmıştır. Karısının işlettiği ve içinde kendi gibi kaybeden arkadaşlarının da çalıştığı ufak bir kurabiye dükkanı vardır. Banka yanında açtıkları kurabiye dükkanında hayaller kurarken, bankayı soymaya karar verirler ve bankayı alttan delerek soymaya başlarlar. Zenginlik sonunda onların olmuştur, ama Kutsal Lanet onların üstündedir!
Film6.9SuçDramNick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…
Mikey and Nicky
1976 · 212 votes
Film7.3KomediRomantikLükse olan düşkünlüğü yüzünden servetini kaybeden ünlü çapkın Henry Graham, çözümü zengin bir kadınla evlenip mirasına konmakta bulur.
Film7.3BelgeselA presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning with the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, MLK is followed through major steps in his struggle to promote racial equality. Including footage of King's stirring speeches, it is a fitting tribute to his legacy, and features clips narrated by a wide range of celebrities, including Harry Belafonte, Paul Newman Charlton Heston, Ruby Dee, Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quinn, Walter Matthau, Ben Gazzara, Clarence Williams III, Joanne Woodward, and James Earl Jones.
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970 · 12 votes
Film4.9RomantikKomediDepressed by the direction his life is taking, Harry decides to take his own life by jumping off the Manhattan Bridge. At the last minute he's stopped by old friend Milt Manville, a successful stock broker. Milt, however, is facing his own problem: he has fallen out of love with his argumentative wife, Ellen. In a misguided effort to solve both of their problems, he introduces Ellen to Harry, hoping the two will fall in love.
Luv
1967 · 17 votes
Film8.0DramSnapshots of the tumults of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Same Storm
2022 · 2 votes
Film6.5BelgeselTV MovieA documentary made for the PBS program American Masters about the comedy team Nichols and May.
Nichols and May: Take Two
1996 · 2 votes
Film6.0MüzikTV MovieThe Fabulous Fifties, CBS, combines style, humor, and imagination. It was rich in touches of quality showmanship and equally rich in the memories of a decade which it revived. In recognition, the Peabody Television Award for entertainment is presented to The Fabulous Fifties, with a special word of praise for producer Leland Hayward and the top talent which appeared in this memorable entertainment special*. *The two-hour special featured comic takes and commentary about the previous decade by, among others, Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Dick Van Dyke, Shelley Berman, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Jackie Gleason, Eric Severeid and Henry Fonda.
The Fabulous Fifties
1960 · 4 votes
Film9.0BelgeselDocumentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
Calling the Shots
1988 · 1 votes
Film4.5KomediKocası işsiz kalınca, lüks Beverly Hills'ten korkunç bir New York macerasına sürüklenen Marianne, tuhaf psişik Reva'yı evini dekore etmesi için tutar. İşler beklenmedik bir hal alır ve ikili, peşlerine takılan çılgın bir katille ölüm kalım mücadelesine girer!
Film4.8KomediRomantikA machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman. Defying the wishes of his parents, David lands a nonpaying job in a seedy theatrical production directed by broken-down ham Marlowe.
Enter Laughing
1967 · 10 votes
Film10.0KomediA Bach recording plays in a New York apartment, while off-screen a man and a woman in bed together for the first time engage in pseudo-intellectual conversation. Based on the Nichols and May sketch.
Bach to Bach
1967 · 1 votes
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Dizi7.0AileKomediFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
What's My Line?
1950 · 29 votes
Dizi6.8Talk ShowThe Merv Griffin Show
1962 · 12 votes
Dizi7.5Dram"The Good Wife"'ın bıraktığı yerden bir yıl sonrasında geçen yapımda, büyük bir finansal dolandırıcılık vakası, Maia Rindell adlı genç bir avukatın ününü mahveder ve aynı zamanda vaftiz annesi Diane Lockhart'ın tüm birikimlerini de beraberinde götürür. Kendi hukuk şirketinden atılan Diane, Maia Rindell ve Lucca Quinn'le beraber Şikago'nun önde gelen hukuk şirketlerinden birisine katılır.
The Good Fight
2017 · 352 votes
Dizi7.5Talk ShowTonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · 6 votes
Dizi7.0Talk ShowOmnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.
Omnibus
1952 · 4 votes
Dizi6.2KomediThe Steve Allen Show
1956 · 6 votes
Dizi7.0BelgeselAmerican Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
American Masters
1986 · 25 votes
Dizi6.4RealiteThe Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 · 5 votes
Dizi7.4DramKomediDuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.
DuPont Show of the Month
1957 · 5 votes
Dizi7.2BelgeselRealite"Everybody Loves Raymond" creator Phil Rosenthal travels the globe to take in the local cuisine and culture of Bangkok, Lisbon, Mexico City and more.
Somebody Feed Phil
2018 · 49 votes
Dizi6.6KomediA comedy that takes place in the 1960s during turbulent times in the United States when a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.
Crisis in Six Scenes
2016 · 161 votes