Edyth “Edie” Landau, producer of The David Susskind Show and Long Day’s Journey Into Night as well an executive at National Telefilm Associates, died in her home on December 24, 2022. She was 95.
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The producer was born on July 15, 1927, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. After graduating college she moved to New York City to pursue a career in entertainment where she became an executive at National Telefilm Associates, a company run by Ely Landau, who Edie ended up marrying.
Edie became Executive Vice President of the company, overseeing the station’s original programming including the anthology drama series The Play of the Week, The Mike Wallace Show, The David Susskind Sho, and Open End.
She and...
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The producer was born on July 15, 1927, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. After graduating college she moved to New York City to pursue a career in entertainment where she became an executive at National Telefilm Associates, a company run by Ely Landau, who Edie ended up marrying.
Edie became Executive Vice President of the company, overseeing the station’s original programming including the anthology drama series The Play of the Week, The Mike Wallace Show, The David Susskind Sho, and Open End.
She and...
- 12/28/2022
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
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Film producer Edythe “Edie” Landau, known for Oscar-nominated Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Hopscotch and The Deadly Game, has died. She was 95.
The Hollywood Reporter has learned that she died “peacefully” of natural causes at her home in Century City on Dec. 24.
From the beginning, Landau was a pioneer for women in the industry. After graduating from Wilkes College, she started her career in New York City at National Telefilm Associates. The company was founded by Ely Landau, who she later married.
Eventually, Landau became executive vice president of the company, where she oversaw original programming, including The Play of the Week, The Mike Wallace Show, The David Susskind Show and Open End.
The National Telefilm Associates later expanded to television and motion pictures and went on to produce Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Oscar-nominated films The Pawnbroker and King: A Filmed Record…...
Film producer Edythe “Edie” Landau, known for Oscar-nominated Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Hopscotch and The Deadly Game, has died. She was 95.
The Hollywood Reporter has learned that she died “peacefully” of natural causes at her home in Century City on Dec. 24.
From the beginning, Landau was a pioneer for women in the industry. After graduating from Wilkes College, she started her career in New York City at National Telefilm Associates. The company was founded by Ely Landau, who she later married.
Eventually, Landau became executive vice president of the company, where she oversaw original programming, including The Play of the Week, The Mike Wallace Show, The David Susskind Show and Open End.
The National Telefilm Associates later expanded to television and motion pictures and went on to produce Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Oscar-nominated films The Pawnbroker and King: A Filmed Record…...
- 12/28/2022
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Edyth “Edie” Landau, a producer who oversaw original programming like “The David Susskind Show” and the anthology series “The Play of the Week” during her tenure as executive vice president of the National Telefilm Associates, died in her home Saturday. She was 95.
Other series under Edie’s purview as EVP included “The Mike Wallace Show,” “Open End,” “The Bishop Queen Show” and “One Night Stand.” She remained at the television production company until 1961.
Born on July 15, 1927 in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. to a Jewish family, Edie moved to New York in 1948 to embark on a career path in entertainment. She first served as a production coordinator on radio shows like “Gangbusters” and “Mr. District Attorney” before moving into her executive position at National Telefilm Associates. At the time, the company was a start-up run by the late producer Ely Landau, who Edie ultimately married.
Edie continued to collaborate with her husband to produce original projects,...
Other series under Edie’s purview as EVP included “The Mike Wallace Show,” “Open End,” “The Bishop Queen Show” and “One Night Stand.” She remained at the television production company until 1961.
Born on July 15, 1927 in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. to a Jewish family, Edie moved to New York in 1948 to embark on a career path in entertainment. She first served as a production coordinator on radio shows like “Gangbusters” and “Mr. District Attorney” before moving into her executive position at National Telefilm Associates. At the time, the company was a start-up run by the late producer Ely Landau, who Edie ultimately married.
Edie continued to collaborate with her husband to produce original projects,...
- 12/28/2022
- by Katie Reul
- Variety Film + TV
In the newest issue of Film Comment magazine I write about the designer Alan Peckolick, a master of lettering who was responsible for one of the great American movie posters of the ’70s, for Short Eyes. Peckolick was a student of—and eventually a business partner of—the great Herb Lubalin, and the poster above comes from a book Peckolick wrote about his mentor in 1985. Both Lubalin and Peckolick worked together on the branding for the films of the American Film Theatre, a project initiated in 1973 by producer Ely Landau to bring great theatre to movie-going audiences with low-budget, star-studded, text-faithful adaptations of a number of contemporary classics. The Quad Cinema in New York is currently playing 12 of these films through November 21.To promote the first series of films Lubalin and Peckolick gave each play its own very distinctive title treatment while also commissioning equally striking illustrations for each film.
- 11/17/2017
- MUBI
In the early 1970s, producers Edie and Ely Landau launched the American Film Theatre, a project designed to bring filmed adaptations of great stage plays to the masses. It was a fairly bold idea at the time given the business and technology of distribution: each filmed play would play simultaneously on around 500 screens, for one showing only — something similar to what Fathom Events does today, only without the benefit of digital exhibition. The productions were financed by a combination of corporate sponsorship and subscription ticketing in which audiences bought advance tickets for an entire season of films, like […]...
- 6/9/2017
- by Jim Hemphill
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the March On Washington, and across the country, various events are happening to mark the historic occasion. For the cinematically minded, there's something worth paying attention to in the form of the epic Oscar-nominated documentary "King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis," which is screening at over 400 locations nationwide for one night only. And for anyone who perhaps wasn't old enough to experience the March On Washington for themselves that needs a reminder and education of just how powerful the moment was and everything that led up to it, 'Montgomery To Memphis' is worth checking out. But first, a quick background on the film: assembled by Ely Landau, who produced the picture alongside Richard Kaplan, the film is not your typical documentary. Running over three hours long, it tracks the rise and tragic death of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1955 to 1968, utilizing simply reels...
- 8/28/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
It's not often that people around the country have the opportunity to watch a restored movie in theaters at the same time, but today brings an especially compelling example that makes for one of the most substantial theatrical events of the year: To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Kino Lorber is opening Ely Landau's sprawling Oscar-nominated documentary "King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis" for one night only in some 20 theaters around the country, echoing the original single day distribution plan from the film's 1970 release. Beyond the obvious historical reasons for the occasion, "King: A Filmed Record" is well worth the price of admission for its artistic strengths alone. Far more than "Lee Daniels' The Butler" or any other fictionalized treatment of the Civil Rights era, Landau's collage-like assemblage of paradigm-shifting events from the final years of King's life transforms history into a vivid, immediate experience.
- 8/28/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
A new 35mm restoration of King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis (1970), an epic documentary on Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King – originally intended to be shown in theaters across the country on a single day – will screen at Film Forum on Wednesday, August 28 at 7:10, exactly 50 years to the day of King’s historic March on Washington and his landmark “I Have a Dream” speech.
An epic record of the greatest American social movement of the 20th century, focusing on its greatest leader, King: A Filmed Record was culled from period news footage, with no wrap-around musical score or omniscient narrator, King’s great speeches shown, not as greatest hits sound bites, but in their entirety, punctuated with literary excerpts read by luminaries including Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones, Sidney Poitier, Anthony Quinn, Bill Cosby, and Charlton Heston in interstitials directed by...
An epic record of the greatest American social movement of the 20th century, focusing on its greatest leader, King: A Filmed Record was culled from period news footage, with no wrap-around musical score or omniscient narrator, King’s great speeches shown, not as greatest hits sound bites, but in their entirety, punctuated with literary excerpts read by luminaries including Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones, Sidney Poitier, Anthony Quinn, Bill Cosby, and Charlton Heston in interstitials directed by...
- 8/14/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Just in time for Mlk day... Mastered in HD from the 35mm preservation negative, the3-hour, landmark, Academy Award nominated film for Best Documentary (1970), King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis, will be released on DVD, on January 15, courtesy of Kino Classics. Vitals from the press release: - Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis is a monumental documentary that follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the Civil Rights movement. Produced for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Foundation by Ely Landau, King is an epic...
- 1/8/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
DVD Release Date: Jan. 15, 2013
Price: 2-Disc DVD $34.95
Studio: Kino
King: A Filmed Record…from Montgomery to Memphis is the landmark 1970 documentary film that chronicles the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery to the triumph on the Lincoln Memorial steps to King’s tragic assassination in Memphis in 1968.
Originally screened in theaters for only a single night in 1970, the three-hour King: A Filmed Record has occasionally been circulated since then in a version that was shortened by an hour. The complete version has been newly restored by the Library of Congress in association with Richard Kaplan and utilizes elements from New York’s Museum of Modern. It’s been mastered in HD from the 35mm preservation negative.
Conceived and produced by Ely Landau, the unrated film features remarkable newsreel and archival footage of King’s speeches,...
Price: 2-Disc DVD $34.95
Studio: Kino
King: A Filmed Record…from Montgomery to Memphis is the landmark 1970 documentary film that chronicles the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery to the triumph on the Lincoln Memorial steps to King’s tragic assassination in Memphis in 1968.
Originally screened in theaters for only a single night in 1970, the three-hour King: A Filmed Record has occasionally been circulated since then in a version that was shortened by an hour. The complete version has been newly restored by the Library of Congress in association with Richard Kaplan and utilizes elements from New York’s Museum of Modern. It’s been mastered in HD from the 35mm preservation negative.
Conceived and produced by Ely Landau, the unrated film features remarkable newsreel and archival footage of King’s speeches,...
- 1/7/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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By Raymond Benson
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Want to go see a Broadway or West End stage play—but at the local cinema? No, it’s not a filmed stage production. It’s a play translated to the film medium, but with complete faithfulness to the original play script. Not only that, it stars big name actors and is directed by a top-notch director. To complete the conceit, you get handed a playbill (program) when you enter the theater. There might even be an intermission—or two! And you have only four showtimes at which you can view the picture before it disappears, and you have to buy your ticket in advance with a subscription for a whole “season” of these filmed plays, or staged films, or whatever you want to call them.
By Raymond Benson
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Want to go see a Broadway or West End stage play—but at the local cinema? No, it’s not a filmed stage production. It’s a play translated to the film medium, but with complete faithfulness to the original play script. Not only that, it stars big name actors and is directed by a top-notch director. To complete the conceit, you get handed a playbill (program) when you enter the theater. There might even be an intermission—or two! And you have only four showtimes at which you can view the picture before it disappears, and you have to buy your ticket in advance with a subscription for a whole “season” of these filmed plays, or staged films, or whatever you want to call them.
- 4/16/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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