A Child Is Waiting is a 1963 United Artists film (BW, 104 minutes), starring Judy Garland and Burt Lancaster. It was the 3rd film directed by John Cassavetes for the Hollywood studio system, and his third film overall. It was also the last film that he would make specifically for a film studio until Minnie and Moskowitz in 1971 (Husbands, which preceded Minnie and Moskowitz, was not initially financed by Columbia Pictures, even though they would ...
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A Child Is Waiting is a 1963 United Artists film (BW, 104 minutes), starring Judy Garland and Burt Lancaster. It was the 3rd film directed by John Cassavetes for the Hollywood studio system, and his third film overall. It was also the last film that he would make specifically for a film studio until Minnie and Moskowitz in 1971 (Husbands, which preceded Minnie and Moskowitz, was not initially financed by Columbia Pictures, even though they would provide financing and eventually release it).
The film itself had a troubled production history. Though Cassavetes was still under contract to Paramount Pictures, he was able to work out a deal that allowed him to work with producer Stanley Kramer on this film. His methods of working with actors and allowing them the freedom to interpret the emotional content of a scene for themselves caused a considerable amount of friction between Cassavetes and most of the cast and crew. In fact, screenwriter Abby Mann, who had been told that Cassavetes...
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