The filmmaker gave many of Hollywood's most famous actors and directors early breaks.
and gave many of Hollywood's most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98."When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, 'I was a filmmaker, just that.'"A remarkable judge of talent, he hired such aspiring filmmakers as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, James Cameron and Martin Scorsese.
Corman's directors were given minuscule budgets and often told to finish their films in as little as five days., Corman told him, "Ron, you can come back if you want, but nobody else will be there."Initially only drive-ins and specialty theatres would book Corman films, but as teenagers began turning out, national chains gave in.The latter two won Oscars for best foreign language film.
It inspired a long-lasting stage musical and a 1986 musical adaptation starring Steve Martin, Bill Murray and John Candy. Roger William Corman was born in Detroit and raised in Beverly Hills, but "not in the affluent section," he once said.
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