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Article: At 74, Stanley Kramer plans movie on Lech Walesa
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 5, 1988
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HOLLYWOOD Veteran filmmaker Stanley Kramer decided eight years ago
that Hollywood no longer had anything to say to him, and vice-versa.
The respected producer and director, whose credits include "High
Noon," "The Wild One," "Inherit the Wind," "On the Beach," "The
Defiant Ones," "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" and "Judgment at
Nuremberg," sold his house in Beverly Hills and transported himself,
his wife and their two teenage daughters to Seattle. He wrote a
weekly column for the Seattle Times, conducted a weekly television
show and did some teaching.
He made one film in Seattle, in a converted hangar. "The Runner
Stumbles" (1979), in the Kramer tradition, dealt with a sensitive
social ...