The Fountainhead

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The Fountainhead

film by Vidor [1949]

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King Vidor
Stella Dallas, The Citadel, and Duel in the Sun
The Fountainhead (1949) was prestigious enough, but somehow Ayn Rand’s best-selling novel (which she adapted herself) resisted Vidor’s attempts to translate it to the screen. A less-than-dynamic Cooper as the driven, brilliant architect Howard Roark was part of the problem, and even a good turn…
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The Fountainhead (1949) was prestigious enough, but somehow Ayn Rand’s best-selling novel (which she adapted herself) resisted Vidor’s attempts to translate it to the screen. A less-than-dynamic Cooper as the driven, brilliant architect Howard Roark was part of the problem, and even a good turn…
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Patricia Neal
…Vidor’s adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead (1949), established her reputation as an intelligent and sophisticated actress. That film also introduced Neal to leading man Gary Cooper, with whom she also costarred in Bright Leaf (1950). Neal revealed in her autobiography, As I Am (1988), that Cooper had been the…
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…Vidor’s adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead (1949), established her reputation as an intelligent and sophisticated actress. That film also introduced Neal to leading man Gary Cooper, with whom she also costarred in Bright Leaf (1950). Neal revealed in her autobiography, As I Am (1988), that Cooper had been the…
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