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4 unusual facts about They Live By Night


They Live by Night

He and Ray did end up working together on projects, including The Lusty Men.

Many minor roles were played by actors and friends of Ray's from his time in the New York theater, including Marie Bryant from Beggar's Holiday (the nightclub singer), Curt Conway (the man in the tuxedo at the night club), and Will Lee (the jeweler).

Both Granger and O'Donnell were under contract to Samuel Goldwyn and had limited acting experience behind them—Granger had been in two films before being drafted for World War II while O'Donnell had just made the classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) but Ray was fiercely loyal and fought for both of them.

Exteriors were filmed both on location and at RKO's movie ranch in Encino, but Todd blended sequences so well together that audiences didn't notice the difference.


Charles Schnee

Charles Schnee (6 August 1916 Bridgeport, Connecticut - 29 November 1963 Beverly Hills, California) gave up law to become a screenwriter in the mid-1940s, crafting scripts for the classic Westerns Red River (1948) and The Furies (1950), the social melodrama They Live By Night (1949), and the cynical Hollywood saga The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), for which he won an Academy Award.


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