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2 unusual facts about Richard Thorpe


El Salón México

Copland adapted the work for the 1947 musical film Fiesta, directed by Richard Thorpe for MGM.

Onest Conley

Conley would also appear alongside his mother in the 1930 Richard Thorpe-directed film The Thoroughbred.


Lancelot and Guinevere

Made ten years after Richard Thorpe's film Knights of the Round Table, the illicit romance this time is portrayed as a more intimate affair, and the sword fights have a more menacing reality (Wilde was an excellent fencer).

The Honeymoon Machine

The Honeymoon Machine is a 1961 film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Mullaney, and Dean Jagger, based on the 1959 Broadway play The Golden Fleecing by Lorenzo Semple Jr..

The Toy Wife

There was a schedule conflict during the production, which forced director Richard Thorpe to withdraw from the direction of The Shopworn Angel (1938), a drama film starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart.


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