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A Child Is Waiting (1963) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by John Cassavetes and produced by Stanley Kramer and Philip Langner.

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A Child Is Waiting (1963, John Cassavetes)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 6, 2018 From The Stop Button

A Child Is Waiting had all kinds of production clashes between producer Stanley Kramer and director Cassavetes. And, apparently, between stars Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland and director Cassavetes. Kramer even fired Cassavetes during editing; none of those problems come through in the finished pro... Read full article


Celebrating Judy Garland with a First Viewing of “A Child Is Waiting”

By Virginie Pronovost on Jun 11, 2017 From The Wonderful World of Cinema

Oh that it seems far away, that time when Judy Garland was gambolling on the yellow bricks road and singing “We’re Off to See the Wizard” when you look at her years later in John Cassavetes’s A Child Is Waiting?(1963)! If this film was among her lasts before her premature dea... Read full article


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Director John Cassavetes (for whom this was his first major studio production) and Producer Stanley Kramer had many creative / economic differences and during the editing phase, Cassavetes was fired.
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