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Filmography
Tonight for Sure
(1961)

Screenplay: Jerry Shaffer and Francis Ford Coppola

Direction: Francis Ford Coppola

Photography (color): Jack Hill

Art Direction: Albert Locatelli

Editing: Ronald Waller

Music: Carmine Coppola (credited as Carmen Coppola)

Produced by Francis Ford Coppola. 75 minutes.

The Bellboy and the Playgirls
(1962)

Screenplay: Fritz Umgelter and Francis Ford Coppola

Direction: Fritz Umgelter and Francis Ford Coppola

Photography (color): Jack Hill

Art Direction: Albert Locatelli

Produced by Wolfgang Hartwig. 94 minutes.

Dementia 13
(1963)

Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola

Direction: Francis Ford Coppola

Photography (black and white): Charles Hannawalt

Art Direction: Albert Locatelli

Editing: Mort Tubor, Stuart O'Brien

Music: Ronald Stein

Cast: William Campbell (Richard Haloran), Luana Anders (Louise Haloran), Bart Patton (Billy Haloran), Mary Mitchel (Kane), Patrick Magee (Justin Caleb), Ethne Dunn (Lady Haloran), Peter Reed (John Haloran), Karl Schanzer (Simon), Ron Perry (Arthur), Derry O'Donovan (Lillian), Barbara Dowling (Kathleen)

Produced by Francis Ford Coppola for Roger Corman Productions. 97 minutes.

Premiere: September 25, 1963.

You're a Big Boy Now
(1966)

Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel by David Benedictus

Direction: Francis Ford Coppola

Photography (Eastmancolor): Andy Laszlo

Art Direction: Vassele Fotopoulos

Costumes: Theoni V. Aldredge

Choreography: Robert Tucker

Editing: Aram Avakian

Music: Bob Prince; songs by John Sebastian; performed by The Lovin' Spoonful Cast: Peter Kastner (Bernard Chanticleer), Elizabeth Hartman (Barbara Darling), Geraldine Page (Margery Chanticleer), Julie Harris (Miss Thing), Rip Torn (I. H. Chanticleer), Tony Bill (Raef), Karen Black (Amy), Michael Dunn (Richard Mudd), Dolph Sweet (Francis Graf), Michael O'Sullivan (Kurt Doughty).

Produced by Phil Feldman for Seven Arts, released by Warner Bros. 96 minutes.

Premiere: March 20, 1967.

Finian's Rainbow
(1968)

Screenplay: E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, based on the Broadway play (book by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, lyrics by E. Y. Harburg, Music by Burton Lane)

Direction: Francis Ford Coppola

Photography (Technicolor, Panavision): Philip Lathrop

Production Design: Hilyard M. Brown

Costumes: Dorothy Jenkins

Choreography: Hermes Pan

Editing: Melvin Shapiro

Music Direction: Ray Heindorf

Associate Music Supervisor: Ken Darby

Sound: M. A. Merrick and Dan Wallin

Cast: Fred Astaire (Finian McLonergan), Petula Clark (Sharon McLonergan), Tommy Steele (Og), Don Francks (Woody Mahoney), Barbara Hancock (Susan the Silent), Keenan Wynn (Senator “Billboard” Rawkins), Al Freeman, Jr. (Howard), Ronald Colby (Buzz Collins), Dolph Sweet (Sheriff), Wright King (District Attorney), Louil Silas (Henry), Brenda Arnau (Sharecropper), Avon Long, Roy Glen, Jerster Hairston (Passion Pilgrim Gospellers)

Produced by Joseph Landon for Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. Associate producer: Joel Freeman. 145 minutes.

Premiere: October 9, 1968.

The Rain People
(1969)

Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola

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