Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was a journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for 27 years. His reviews and articles helped shape the careers of actors, directors and screenwriters. Crowther was an advocate of foreign language films in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly the films of Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini.
Born Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. in Lutherville, Ma...
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Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was a journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for 27 years. His reviews and articles helped shape the careers of actors, directors and screenwriters. Crowther was an advocate of foreign language films in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly the films of Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini.
Born Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. in Lutherville, Maryland, Crowther moved as a child to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he published a neighborhood newspaper, The Evening Star. His family moved to Washington, D.C., and Crowther graduated from Western High School in 1922. After two years of prep school in Orange, Virginia at Woodberry Forest School, he entered Princeton University, where he majored in history. For his writing performance, Crowther was offered a job as a cub reporter for The New York Times at a salary of $30 a week. He declined the offer, made to him by the publisher Arthur...
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