When Delbert Mann, the director who won an Oscar® for Marty (1955) died last month on November 11th, his obituaries tended to emphasize two items from his career. The film of writer Paddy Chayevsky's story Marty (1955), which highlighted the hopes and sorrows of an everyday guy, played eloquently by Ernest Borgnine, and the incident in 1968 when Mann's made-for-tv movie, "Heidi" pre-empted the end of a nail-biting NY Jets-Oakland Raiders game on television. The Raiders, won the game, 43 to 32, with two last minute touchdowns unseen by the vast, royally ticked offed American audience, who had to comfort themselves with the sight of the score superimposed over Clara's dramatic learning-to-walk-again scene in "Heidi".Marty, the Chayevsky teleplay that Mann had brought to the screen, (at the playwright's insistence), would, in retrospect, document the plight of a self-described "ugly little man" who has spent his life "looking for a girl every Saturday night of my life," but it would also mark the beginning of the successful migration of talented tv directors such as Mann, John Frankenheimer and Sidney Lumet to the movies...Read More
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