The World of Henry Orient (1964) | |
| Director(s) | George Roy Hill |
| Producer(s) | Jerome Hellman |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Musicians, New York |
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The World of Henry Orient (1964) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by George Roy Hill and produced by Jerome Hellman.
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By The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 13, 2021 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film LoversIn this publicity photo for The World of Henry Orient ( 1964 ), pianist Henry Orient ( Peter Sellars ) is surrounded by his two greatest fans Val and Gil ( Tippy Walker and Marrie Spaeth ) and is not pleased at all about it! Especially since he thinks they are agents sent by his mistress's husband t... Read full article
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
By Beatrice on Mar 28, 2018 From Flickers in TimeThe World of Henry Orient Directed by George Roy Hill Written by Nora Johnson and Nunnally Johnson from Nora Johnson’s novel 1964/USA Pan Arts Repeat viewing/Amazon Instant I first saw this in the theater as a pre-teen. ?This coming-of-age comedy holds up well into adulthood. Thirteen-year-... Read full article
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
on Sep 9, 2015 From Journeys in Classic FilmIt’s not often a film focusing on teenagers doesn’t devolve into two young girls bickering about finding romance. Romance blooms in George Roy Hill’s The World of Henry Orient, but it’s that heady, semi-obsessive first crush on an impossible man that nearly every teenage girl... Read full article
The World of Henry Orient (1964) screening at the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival
By Raquel Stecher on May 8, 2014 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film BlogThe line to get into The World of Henry Orient (1964) screening at the TCM Classic Film Festival was a bit hectic but well worth the temporary chaos. I knew nothing about the film except that Paula Prentiss was in it and that she would be at the screening. It was an added bonus that actress Merrie S... Read full article
The World of Henry Orient (1964) screening at the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival
By Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film BlogThe line to get into The World of Henry Orient (1964) screening at the TCM Classic Film Festival was a bit hectic but well worth the temporary chaos. I knew nothing about the film except that Paula Prentiss was in it and that she would be at the screening. It was an added bonus that actress Merrie S... Read full article
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Stella Dunnworthy: This is exactly the sort of thing George would think of, little girl detectives that no one would suspect.
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Marian Gilbert: Golly Moses!
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The phone Peter Sellers uses in his bedroom is called a Ericofon, made by L. M. Ericsson of Sweden. This is one of the very few foreign phones allowed in the US at the time of filming by the then telephone company, Bell Telephone, which held a monopoly on both telephone service and telephone equipment in the US. Bell Telephone felt so threatened by the unique European design (and possible mass intrusion into "their" telephone network) that they designed the "Trimline" phone as a countermeasure.
During the making of the film, Peter Sellers actually had problems of his own with a fan stalking him.
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