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Pink Panther comic genius Blake Edwards dies at 88 -
17 December 2010
-Julie Andrews' husband, Pink Panther creator Blake Edwards, has died at the age of 88.-
-The director, writer and producer passed away at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California on Wednesday night (15Dec10) after suffering complications from pneumonia.-
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Blake Edwards - what members say
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Quality shines through the datedness 18 December 2004
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A Harrowing Portrayal of Addiction 26 October 2004
review by from Whitechapel, E1
It just doesn't quite work... 28 January 2005
Blake Edwards - filmography
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Son of the Pink Panther
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale
Director: Blake Edwards
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After the death of Peter Sellers in 1980, writer/director Blake Edwards assembled a new Pink Panther film from outtakes of Sellers as Inspector Clouseau from previous movies in the series (the result was called The Trail of the Pink Panther) and later made two attempts to revive the series with ..read more »
 
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Skin Deep
(1989)
Starring: John Ritter, Vincent Gardenia, Alyson Reed
Director: Blake Edwards
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Zach Hutton (John Ritter), celebrated writer, compulsive drinker and womaniser extraordinaire. But after 10 years of marital bliss, his luck's about to run out. His mistress finds him in bed - with his wife's hairdresser. His wife discovers them all - and throws him out... and Zach is about to ..read more »
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Sunset
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Mariel Hemingway
Director: Blake Edwards
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Set in 1929 Hollywood, the story revolves around the legendary Tom Mix, who is making his first talkie western, an epic story about the life and times of Wyatt Earp, the famous lawman. When Earp, who is still alive, is hired as technical adviser on the movie, egos clash and the two become uneasy ..read more »
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Blind Date
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger, William Daniels
Director: Blake Edwards
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Expecting to impress his associates with his dazzling, soft-spoken blind date, Walter takes her to a high-powered corporate dinner. After drinking 'one too many' she reduces the restaurant and Walter's career to a shambles. Her weird ex-boyfriend also helps to ruin Walter's car and his life.
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Micki and Maude
(1984)
Starring: Dudley Moore, Amy Irving
Director: Blake Edwards
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Dudley Moore stars in Blake Edwards's amiable farce about a man whose eagerness to become a father creates problems. Rob Salinger (Moore) is a television reporter married to Micki (Ann Reinking), a rising assistant district attorney. Demanding careers have made it difficult for the couple to have ..read more »
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Victor/Victoria
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Julie Andrews, Alex Karras, Robert Preston
Director: Blake Edwards
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Blake Edwards tones down the broadly farcical style that is his signature with this sly musical comedy starring Julie Andrews as British entertainer Victoria Grant. She and an older friend, gay impresario Toddy (Robert Preston), are close to starvation in 1930s Paris. Desperate for work, he changes ..read more »
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S.O.B.
(1981)
Starring: Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson
Director: Blake Edwards
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Based on his near-career-ending experience with the box-office disaster DARLING LILI, Blake Edwards fashioned a corrosive behind-the-scenes satire of the business in which he had long plied his trade.The film stars Richard Mulligan as Felix Farmer, a once-successful director whose career is on the ..read more »
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10
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Bo Derek
Director: Blake Edwards
Certificate: 
Dudley Moore stars in Blake Edwards's deft satire of male menopause. A successful songwriter seemingly possessed of the trappings of the good life, George Webber (Moore) is plagued by a sense of that he's losing his interest in life and sex. Despite sage advice from friend Hugh (Robert Webber) on ..read more »
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The Tamarind Seed
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif
Director: Blake Edwards
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Judith Farrow, who works for the British Embassy, has just ended an affair with a married man. To recover emotionally, she decides to vacation in Barbados, where she meets a suave, mysterious Russian named Feodor Sverdlov. Although the two are attracted to each other, Judith is wary of beginning a ..read more »
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Darling Lili
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson
Director: Blake Edwards
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In 1970, director Blake Edwards and his actress-wife Julie Andrews joined forces for a musical based on the life of legendary double agent Mata Hari that became one of the most infamous flops in cinematic history. In addition to exceeding both its budget and production schedule, DARLING LILI ..read more »
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The Party
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Gavin McLeod
Director: Blake Edwards
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Peter Sellers plays a bumbling foreigner once again (but this time he's not from France) in this cult-favorite comedy. Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) is an accident-prone actor from India who has come to California, hoping to make a name for himself in Hollywood movies. However, Bakshi quickly ..read more »
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The Great Race
(1965)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood
Director: Blake Edwards
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Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star as archrivals The Great Leslie and Professor Fate in this madcap, round-the-world adventure comedy. The enemies are determined to win a turn-of-the-century automobile race from New York to Paris. Also competing is the beautiful suffragette Maggie Dubois (Natalie Wood).
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A Shot in the Dark
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders
Director: Blake Edwards
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The French have a word for a man like Clouseau (Peter Sellers): Idiot!
Across Paris, baffled citizens want to know if the Inspector is in hot pursuit of a criminal, or just in love with one! Mistakenly assigned to a high-prestige case in which a millionaire's chauffeur has been murdered. Clouseau ..read more »
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Days Of Wine And Roses
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford
Director: Blake Edwards
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Blake Edwards's disturbing adaptation of J.P. Miller's PLAYHOUSE 90 story, starring Jack Lemmon as Joe Clay, remains an anomaly in a body of work largely devoted to comedy. Clay, a San Francisco public relations man who likes a drink, meets secretary Kirsten Arnesen (Lee Remick), who doesn't drink ..read more »
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Experiment in Terror
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers
Director: Blake Edwards
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Bank teller Lee Remick is accosted in her garage one dark night by asthmatic psycho Ross Martin. He forces her to go through with an elaborate robbery scheme, threatening to kill Lee's teen-aged sister Stefanie Powers if the police are summoned. FBI agent Glenn Ford suspects that something is amiss ..read more »
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Breakfast At Tiffany's
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Martin Balsam
Director: Blake Edwards
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Blake Edwards's adaptation of Truman Capote's classic novella is ideally cast with Audrey Hepburn in the role of Holly Golightly. The free-spirited gamine darts about New York, feted by wealthy men drawn to her megawatt charm and elegance, hoping that the party will never end. After "shopping" in ..read more »
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High Time
(1960)
Starring: Bing Crosby, Fabian, Tuesday Weld
Director: Blake Edwards
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Bing Crosby plays a widowed millionaire who decides that it's high time he got himself a college education. Enrolling as a freshman, Crosby is forced to endure the anachronistic initiation stunts dreamed up by his fraternity buddies, and at one point is required to dress up as Scarlett O'Hara (that'..read more »
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Operation Petticoat
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien
Director: Blake Edwards
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Cary Grant and Tony Curtis star as naval officers in this service comedy, one of the director's favorite genres. When Adm. Matt Sherman's (Grant) submarine, the Sea Tiger, is damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor, he needs to find spare parts to have it recommissioned. Into the breach steps ..read more »
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The Perfect Furlough
(1958)
Starring: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn
Director: Blake Edwards
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To pacify 104 sex-starved male soldiers building an Arctic radar base, Army psychologist Vicki Loren suggests choosing one by lot to have a "perfect furlough" as selected by the men: three weeks in Paris with their favorite pin-up queen, Sandra Roca. Since "winner" Paul Hodges is a tireless Don ..read more »
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This Happy Feeling
(1958)
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Curd Jürgens, John Saxon
Director: Blake Edwards
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On a stormy night, young woman asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss and take her to the train station. When her rescuer suggests that she stop at his place to get out of her wet clothes, she dashes from his car. The door she knocks on for help is the home of a retired ..read more »
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Peter Gunn - Season 1
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Byrone Kane, Bill Chadney, Morris Erby
Director: Blake Edwards
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Suave, sophisticated and nothing like anything seen before on TV, Peter Gunn was a new kind of detective - the ultimate in cool sophistication.The handsome, dashing and consistently well dressed Gunn hung out a trendy jazz club crossing paths with hit men and hoodlums. Ably assisted by his long ..read more »
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Blake Edwards facts
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...lthough the ending is ultimately predictable, this is a fine work from Director Blake Edwards. ...
