His latest film, an all-star adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter’s novel Ship of Fools, was due to open on July 29, and Kramer could already recognize the onset of the sickening deflation of his own expectations. How could it have been otherwise when, by his own admission, he “had dreamed it would be a great accomplishment, a definitive motion picture showing what the medium can be” and not merely “a good piece of work that didn’t quite fulfill our aspirations”?2In 1965, Stanley Kramer was, at fifty-one, as enshrined a member of the Hollywood establishment as anyone in the movie business, and there was probably not an active producer or director who would have hated that description more. Kramer had been making movies since the late 1940s. He had started as a producer, overseeing Mark Robson’s Home of the Brave, an adaptation of an Arthur Laurents play that dealt with racism in the American military. Kramer went on to produce The Men (Marlon Brando’s movie debut), High Noon, Death of a Salesman, The Member of the Wedding, and The Caine Mutiny in the space of a few years.
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