August 26, 1972 –
The romantic drama directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Sam Spiegel, based on Harold Pinter’s screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel The Last Tycoon on this date. It stars Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell and Ingrid Boulting.
Mike Nichols was replaced after disagreements with Sam Spiegel. Allegedly, Nichols opposed the casting of Robert De Niro in the lead. Soon afterwards, Nichols worked on another project planned for De Niro, an original comedy script by Neil Simon titled Bogart Slept Here This, too, came to nothing, amidst rumors of considerable friction between De Niro and Nichols, who then abandoned filmmaking for several years. Simon later rewrote his script extensively, and it emerged as The Goodbye Girl , but with Richard Dreyfuss in the lead, and Herbert Ross directing.
The Haus of Dcaligari 