1. Arthur Hiller Penn was an American filmmaker, theatre director, and producer.
16 Facts About Arthur Penn
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Arthur Penn was a three-time Academy Award nominee for Best Director, and a Tony Award winner.
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Arthur Penn received similar acclaim and his first Oscar nomination for directing the 1962 film adaptation.
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Arthur Penn achieved similar critical and commercial success directing the comedy Alice's Restaurant and the revisionist Western Little Big Man, which further reflected that ethos.
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Arthur Penn was the younger brother of Irving Penn, the fashion, portrait and still life photographer.
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Arthur Penn started to direct and take part in shows being put on for the soldiers around England at the time.
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Arthur Penn later attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
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Arthur Penn had won a Tony Award for directing the stage production, written by William Gibson, starring Bancroft and Duke, and he had directed Bancroft's Broadway debut in playwright Gibson's first Broadway production, Two for the Seesaw.
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Arthur Penn was excluded from the post-production process, which was instead overseen by producer Sam Spiegel.
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Arthur Penn reunited with Warren Beatty for the gangster film Bonnie and Clyde.
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At the time he had completed Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn was residing in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, when he heard a story of a large-scale littering incident that had happened in the town two years prior.
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Arthur Penn contacted Arlo Guthrie, received permission to adapt his song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" into a film, and secured Guthrie's participation as well as several other Stockbridge town residents while filming in many of the same locations where the events took place.
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Arthur Penn followed up Alice's Restaurant in 1970 with Little Big Man, a "shaggy dog" account of the life of a white man who gets adopted into the Cheyenne tribe.
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In 1973 Arthur Penn provided a segment for a promotional film for the Olympics titled Visions of Eight along with several other major directors such as John Schlesinger and Milos Forman.
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Arthur Penn maintained an affiliation with Yale University, occasionally teaching classes there.
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Arthur Penn died from congestive heart failure at his home in Manhattan on September 28,2010, the day after his 88th birthday.