Sweet Smell of Success

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Sweet Smell of Success

1957

Engagements, Mistresses, Infidelity, Frame-ups, Secretaries, Moral corruption, New York City, Senators, Columnists, Nightclubs

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Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Writer: Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman
Cinematographer: James Wong Howe
Editor: Alan Crosland Jr.
Production Designers: Edward Carrere
Production Company: Hecht-Hill-Lancaster","Norma-Curtleigh Productions

This film marks the second screen pairing of Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, and it launched Curtis into stardom. Lancaster, already a powerful Hollywood mogul at the time, not only starred in but executive produced SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957). Writer Ernest Lehman based the film on his personal experiences as a press agent working for the highly influential and ruthless columnist Walter Winchell, and the picture was deemed responsible for shattering Winchell’s reputation… Learn more at the AFI Catalog

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