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James R. Webb est un scénariste américain, né le 4 octobre 1909 à Denver ( Colorado) [ 2] et mort le 27 septembre 1974 à Beverly Hills ( Californie ). Biographie. Filmographie. 1941 : Nevada City (en) 1941 : Rags to Riches (en) 1941 : Bad Man of Deadwood (en) 1941 : Jesse James at Bay. 1942 : South of Santa Fe (en)
- James E. Webb
James Edwin Webb ( 7 octobre 1906 - 27 mars 1992) est le...
- James E. Webb
Le télescope spatial James Webb (JWST, pour l'anglais James Webb Space Telescope, ou parfois TSJW selon son nom français [1], [2]) est un télescope spatial servant d'observatoire fonctionnant principalement dans l'infrarouge, développé par la NASA avec la participation de l'Agence spatiale européenne (ESA) et de l'Agence ...
- Early Life
- Early Screenplays
- World War II
- Post-War Career
- Warner Bros
- Post Warner Bros
- Mirisch Brothers
Webb was born in Denver in 1909 and graduated from Stanford University in 1930. He became a fiction writer for national magazines, including Collier's: The National Weekly, Cosmopolitan, and The Saturday Evening Post,in 1936 and a screenwriter two years later.
Webb's early screenplays were written for Republic Pictures. He did a series of films starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane: Nevada City (1941), Bad Man of Deadwood (1941), Jesse James at Bay (1941) and South of Santa Fe (1942) with Roy Rogers. He also did Rags to Riches(1941) directed by Kane.
Webb was commissioned an army officer in June 1942 and became a personal aide to General Lloyd R. Fredendall who was commander of the II Corps. Webb accompanied Fredendall to England in October 1942 and participated in the invasion of North Africa in November 1942 when the Second Corps captured the city of Oran. The Second Corps then attacked eastw...
Webb left the Army after the war and returned to Hollywood, where he continued his work as a screenwriter. He returned to Republic for California Firebrand(1948). In 1948 he sold a story to Universal, Going, Going, Gone and was going to write the script but no film resulted. A story of his Fugitive from Love, was filmed as Woman in Hiding(1950).
Webb signed a contract for Warner Bros for whom he wrote the Westerns Montana (1950) with Errol Flynn, Raton Pass (1951), and The Big Trees (1952) with Kirk Douglas. He also wrote Close to My Heart (1951) based on his own novel, Operation Secret (1952), The Iron Mistress (1952) for Alan Ladd, The Charge at Feather River (1953) a 3-D film, and Phant...
Lancaster hired Webb to do Trapeze (1956). He also wrote The Big Country (1958) and Pork Chop Hill(1959). Webb received critical acclaim for his screenplays for Cape Fear (1962) and How the West Was Won (1962). He won an Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screenfor the latter.
Less well received were Kings of the Sun (1963) for the Mirisch Brothers and Cheyenne Autumn (1964) for John Ford. He wrote an early draft of Chinese Finale that became 7 Women, Ford's last film, but Webb is not credited in the final movie. Webb wrote the English language version of Guns for San Sebastian (1968) and did a script for Patton. He did ...
12 juil. 2022 · Un fonctionnaire d'État américain de carrière surtout connu pour son rôle dans le développement de la mission Apollo. James Webb a été administrateur de la NASA (agence spatiale américaine) de...
Il y a 5 jours · Nouveau record pour James-Webb : le télescope spatial a encore repoussé les limites de ses observations en détectant la plus lointaine galaxie jamais découverte, a annoncé la NASA jeudi 30 mai.
6 mars 2024 · Le télescope spatial James-Webb (JWST), développé par la NASA et l’ESA, vient d’obtenir les premiers spectres de galaxies de très faible masse moins d’un milliard d’années après le Big Bang. Une prouesse technologique rendue possible par la combinaison unique de la sensibilité du JWST et de l’effet de lentille ...
