Marty

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Marty
original movie poster
Directed by	Delbert Mann
Produced by	Harold Hecht
Written by	Paddy Chayefsky
Starring	Ernest Borgnine Betsy Blair Frank Sutton Esther Minciotti Augusta Ciolli
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	April 11, 1955
Running time	94 min
Language	English
Budget	$343,000 (US)
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For other uses, see Marty (disambiguation).

Marty is a 1955 film directed by Delbert Mann, based on a teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky. It is a romance starring Ernest Borgnine as an Italian-American butcher who lives in the Bronx with his possessive mother. Unmarried in his 30s, the sweet, awkward, man faces a turning point when he meets a plain, spinster schoolteacher at a neighborhood dance and they enjoy each other's company. Will he go with his heart, or listen to his mother and friends who discourage the romance?

The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, in 1994.

1 Production
2 Awards
- 2.1 Nominations
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Production

Chayefsky's script had been produced for television before the movie was made. The television version of Marty starred Rod Steiger.

[edit] Awards

Marty won four Oscars:

[edit] Nominations

It was nominated for a further four Oscars:

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Joe Mantell
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Betsy Blair
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White - Ted Haworth, Robert Priestley, Walter M. Simonds
Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - Joseph LaShelle

The movie also won the 1955 Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, the first one to do so.

[edit] Trivia

It has been suggested that the character Marty McFly in 1985's Back to the Future was named after this film, as Marty McFly travels back in time to 1955 in Back to the Future, although the writer and director of the 1985 film insist this was a coincidence and was not intentional.