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unusual facts about George Roy Hill


Kermit Bloomgarden

Ketti Frings, better known for her screenplays, wrote the play, and George Roy Hill, who had worked mostly in television, directed.


Freeze-frame shot

Director George Roy Hill frequently made use of the technique when depicting the death of a character, as in The World According to Garp (1982) and in the memorable ending to the classic western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

The World of Henry Orient

A Broadway musical adaptation of The World of Henry Orient called Henry, Sweet Henry, with music and lyrics by Bob Merrill, book by Nunnally Johnson (the father of Nora Johnson), direction by George Roy Hill and choreography by Michael Bennett, opened at the Palace Theatre on October 23, 1967.


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