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All the King's Men (1949 film), the Glossary

All the King's Men is a 1949 American political drama film written, produced, and directed by Robert Rossen.^[1]

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Films directed by Robert Rossen
Films with screenplays by Robert Rossen
Huey Long

A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 American romantic drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell and Ann Sothern. All the King's Men (1949 film) and a Letter to Three Wives are 1949 films.

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Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material.

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Academy Award for Best Director

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. All the King's Men (1949 film) and Academy Award for Best Picture are best Picture Academy Award winners.

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). All the King's Men (1949 film) and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress are films featuring a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award-winning performance.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Academy Film Archive

The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of motion picture history.

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Acquittal

In common law jurisdictions, an acquittal means that the prosecution has failed to prove that the accused is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the charge presented.

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Al Clark (film editor)

Al Clark (September 15, 1902 – July 13, 1971) was a prolific American film editor whose career spanned four decades, most of which was spent at Columbia Pictures.

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All the King's Men

All the King's Men is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. All the King's Men (1949 film) and All the King's Men are Huey Long.

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All the King's Men (2006 film)

All the King's Men is a 2006 American political drama film written, directed and produced by Steven Zaillian based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren. All the King's Men (1949 film) and All the King's Men (2006 film) are American political drama films, films about elections, films about politicians and Huey Long.

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Anne Seymour (actress)

Anne Seymour (September 11, 1909 – December 8, 1988) was an American film and television character actress.

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Biographic leverage

Biographic leverage is a term used in the field of espionage to describe a form of blackmail in which a piece of negative information about an individual is used as leverage to persuade them to do something they are reluctant to do or to disclose secret information.

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Bosley Crowther

Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Box office

A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.

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Broderick Crawford

William Broderick Crawford (December 9, 1911 – April 26, 1986) was an American actor.

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Burnett Guffey

Burnett Guffey, A.S.C. (May 26, 1905 – May 30, 1983) was an American cinematographer. He won two Academy Awards: From Here to Eternity (1953) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Burnett Guffey, who was born on May 26, 1905 in Del Rio, Tennessee, went to school in Etowah, Tennessee. He began working as a messenger boy at a bank, then transitioned to a camera assistant at Fox in 1923.

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Champion (1949 film)

Champion is a 1949 American sports drama film noir directed by Mark Robson with a screenplay written by Carl Foreman based on a short story by Ring Lardner. All the King's Men (1949 film) and Champion (1949 film) are 1949 drama films, 1949 films and film noir.

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Character actor

A character actor is an actor known for playing unusual, eccentric or interesting characters in supporting roles, rather than leading ones.

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Cinéaste (magazine)

Cinéaste is an American quarterly film magazine that was established in 1967.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger (November 7, 1903 – February 5, 1991) was an American film, stage, and television actor who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Henry King's Twelve O'Clock High (1949).

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Demagogue

A demagogue (from Greek δημαγωγός, a popular leader, a leader of a mob, from δῆμος, people, populace, the commons + ἀγωγός leading, leader), or rabble-rouser, is a political leader in a democracy who gains popularity by arousing the common people against elites, especially through oratory that whips up the passions of crowds, appealing to emotion by scapegoating out-groups, exaggerating dangers to stoke fears, lying for emotional effect, or other rhetoric that tends to drown out reasoned deliberation and encourage fanatical popularity.

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Don Siegel

Donald Siegel (October 26, 1912 – April 20, 1991) was an American film and television director and producer.

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Fairfield, California

Fairfield is a city in and the county seat of Solano County, California, United States, in the North Bay sub-region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed for excellence in both American and international film and television.

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Golden Lion

The Golden Lion (Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival.

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Governor (United States)

In the United States, a governor serves as the chief executive and commander-in-chief in each of the fifty states and in the five permanently inhabited territories, functioning as head of state and head of government therein.

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Grandon Rhodes

Grandon Rhodes (born Grandon Neviers Augustine Rolker; August 7, 1904 – June 9, 1987) was an American actor.

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Harry Cohn

Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891 – February 27, 1958) was a co-founder, president, and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation.

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Harry W. Gerstad

Harry W. Gerstad (born Harry Donald Gerstad; June 11, 1909 – July 17, 2002) was an American film editor who sometimes directed films.

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Houseley Stevenson

Houseley Stevenson (30 July 1879 – 6 August 1953) was a British-American character actor who was born in London on July 30, 1879, and died in Duarte, California on August 6, 1953.

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Huey Long

Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893September 10, 1935), nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935.

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Joanne Dru

Joanne Dru (born Joan Letitia LaCock;Known as Joan Lacock in the January 31, 1922 – September 10, 1996) was an American film and television actress, known for such films as Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, All the King's Men, and Wagon Master.

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John Derek

John Derek (born Derek Delevan Harris; August 12, 1926 – May 22, 1998) was an American actor, filmmaker and photographer.

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John Ireland

John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian-American actor and film director.

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John Wayne

Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed "the Duke", was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Katherine Warren

Katherine Warren (July 12, 1905 – July 17, 1965) was an American film and television actress.

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Landslide victory

A landslide victory is an election result in which the victorious candidate or party wins by an overwhelming margin.

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Leading actor

A leading actor, leading actress, or leading man or lady or simply lead, plays the role of the protagonist of a film, television show or play.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of Academy Award–winning films

This is a list of Academy Award–winning films.

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List of American films of 1949

A list of American films released in 1949.

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Louis Gruenberg

Louis Gruenberg (June 10, 1964) was a Russian-born American pianist and prolific composer, especially of operas.

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Mercedes McCambridge

Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge (March 16, 1916 – March 2, 2004) was an American actress of radio, stage, film, and television.

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National Film Registry

The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) collection of films selected for preservation, each selected for its historical, cultural and aesthetic contributions since the NFPB's inception in 1988. All the King's Men (1949 film) and National Film Registry are United States National Film Registry films.

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NBC University Theatre

NBC University Theater (also known as NBC University Theater of the Air, NBC Theater of the Air or NBC Theater) was a brand the National Broadcasting Co.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newsreel

A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the mid 1970s.

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Norman Corwin

Norman Lewis Corwin (May 3, 1910 – October 18, 2011) was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing.

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Opposition research

In politics, opposition research (also called oppo research) is the practice of collecting information on a political opponent or other adversary that can be used to discredit or otherwise weaken them.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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Paraplegia

Paraplegia, or paraparesis, is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities.

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Paul Ford

Paul Ford Weaver (November 2, 1901 – April 12, 1976) was an American character actor and comedic actor who came to specialize in portraying authority figures whose ineptitude and pompous demeanor were played for comic effect, notably as Mayor George Shinn in the 1957 Broadway musical comedy play, followed five years later by repeating in the feature film version The Music Man (1962), (starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones), and on television as U.S.

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Political drama

A political drama can describe a play, film or TV program that has a political component, whether reflecting the author's political opinion, or describing a politician or series of political events.

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Political fiction

Political fiction employs narrative to comment on political events, systems and theories.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Ralph Dumke

Ralph Ernest Dumke (July 25, 1899 – January 4, 1964) was an American comedian and actor who had an active career from the early 1920s up until his death in 1964.

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Raymond Greenleaf

Raymond Greenleaf (born Roger Ramon Greenleaf; January 1, 1892 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor, best known for All the King's Men (1949), Angel Face (1952), and Pinky (1949).

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Redneck

Redneck is a derogatory term mainly, but not exclusively, applied to white Americans perceived to be crass and unsophisticated, closely associated with rural whites of the Southern United States.

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Robert Parrish

Robert Reese Parrish (January 4, 1916December 4, 1995) was an American film director, editor and former child actor.

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Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.

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Robert Rossen

Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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San Joaquin County, California

San Joaquin County (Spanish: San Joaquín, meaning "St. Joachim"), officially the County of San Joaquin, is a county located in the U.S. state of California.

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Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film starring John Wayne that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. All the King's Men (1949 film) and Sands of Iwo Jima are 1949 drama films and 1949 films.

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Second unit

Second unit is a discrete team of filmmakers tasked with filming shots or sequences of a production, separate from the main or "first" unit.

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Shepperd Strudwick

Shepperd Strudwick (September 22, 1907 – January 15, 1983) was an American actor of film, television, and stage.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.

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Spencer Tracy

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor.

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Spoiler effect

In social choice theory and politics, the spoiler effect or '''Arrow's paradox''' refers to a situation where a losing (that is, irrelevant) candidate affects the results of an election.

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State attorney general

The state attorney general in each of the 50 U.S. states, of the federal district, or of any of the territories is the chief legal advisor to the state government and the state's chief law enforcement officer.

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Steven Zaillian

Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, film director and producer.

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Stockton, California

Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Suisun City, California

Suisun City (Wintun for "where the west wind blows") is a city in Solano County, California, United States.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Twelve O'Clock High

Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 American war film directed by Henry King and based on the novel of the same name by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay, Jr. It stars Gregory Peck as Brig. All the King's Men (1949 film) and Twelve O'Clock High are 1949 films and United States National Film Registry films.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_King's_Men_(1949_film)

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Films directed by Robert Rossen

Films with screenplays by Robert Rossen

Huey Long

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