She then appeared in The Man Is Armed (1956), The White Squaw (1956), The Unknown Terror (1957) and on a 1960 episode of Shotgun Slade, her final onscreen credit. Wynn reunited with Francis (who would die in a July 1955 plane crash at age 25) in They Rode West and played Glenn Ford’s fiancee in The Violent Men. And it is smartly and stingingly played by a cast of able performers, with Edward Dmytryk calling the turns.Van Johnson as the blunt executive officer who commits the so-called act of mutiny does. “He also said May was good because it couldn’t be mispronounced.” “Stanley Kramer, the producer, said there hadn’t been a May on the screen since the days of May McAvoy and Mae Murray,” she told the AP’s Bob Thomas in 1953 interview. The character appears in the 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk on which the film is based. MacMurray's unsympathetic Lieutenant Tom. Stanley Kramer gave Fred MacMurray a prominent role in The Caine Mutiny during a difficult period in the actor's life - his wife had just died - and work was a needed distraction for him. Signed by Columbia Pictures, she tested for the part of social club employee Alma/Lorene in From Here to Eternity (1953) but lost out to Donna Reed, who would win the supporting actress Oscar for her performance.įor the Edward Dmytryk-directed The Caine Mutiny (1954), Hickey was hired the play the nightclub singer May Wynn, the love interest of Ensign Willie Keith (Robert Francis). In addition to The Caine Mutiny, Dmytryk directed Lee Marvin in Eight Iron Men (1952) and Raintree County (1958). She appeared in uncredited roles in such films as Dreamboat (1952), My Wife’s Best Friend (1952) and The Girl Next Door (1953) before being billed under her birth name in The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953), starring Betty Grable and Dale Robertson. The Caine Mutiny (1954) is the story of shipboard conflict and a mutiny aboard a WWII naval vessel, and the subsequent court-martial trial of the ships captain. Greenwald (José Ferrer) questions Queeg (Humphrey Bogart).BUY THE MOVIE.
She started work as a showgirl at the Copacabana nightclub when she was 17, then signed with 20th Century Fox and moved to Los Angeles. The Caine Mutiny - Paranoid Breakdown: Lt. The daughter of a vaudevillian, Donna Lee Hickey was born on Jan. The Caine Mutiny (1954) Directed by Edward Dmytryk. She also played a secretary in a veterinary hospital headed by Paul Burke and Victor Rodman on the Jack Webb-produced 1956-57 NBC series Noah’s Ark. The Caine Mutiny (1954) Home of the Brave (1949) Aug7:30 pm. You can buy The Caine Mutiny on Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies. The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American military drama. Jean-Marie Lavalou, Co-Inventor of the Remote-Controlled Louma Crane, Dies at 76 Drama, Certificate: Passed It is based on Herman Wouks Pulitzer Prize-winning 1951 novel of the same name.