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Emile Ardolino papers

1950s-1990s

This series, dating from the 1950s to 1993, is composed of materials related to the later part of Ardolino's career as a feature film director and producer. Most of the materials document Ardolino's efforts during the pre-production, production, and post-production filming process. Daily reels, early cuts of trailers, personal notes, artifacts, script supervisor notes, screenplay drafts, posters, promotional materials, awards invitations and programs, and set design layouts from Dirty Dancing (1987), Chances Are (1989), Three Men and a Little Lady (1990), Sister Act (1992), are well represented in the series.

The material in this series is arranged chronologically by production release date, then alphabetically by type.

Ardolino's career changing documentary, He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983), appears in the series through a script; an interview; Ardolino's personal notes; press clippings; photographs; a video recording; certificates, programs, invitations from award shows; and a contract.

The other feature film productions, Dirty D

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Emile Ardolino

FILM DIRECTOR

1943 - 1993

Emile Ardolino

Emile Ardolino (May 9, 1943 – November 20, 1993) was an American television and film director and producer, best known for his work on the films Dirty Dancing (1987) and Sister Act (1992). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emile Ardolino has received more than 471,996 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Emile Ardolino is the 724th most popular film director (up from 726th in 2019), the 4,596th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,673rd in 2019) and the 180th most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Emile Ardolino ranks 724 out of 2,041. Before him are Tatyana Lioznova, Charles Vidor, Otakar Vávra, Corey Yuen, Maurice Tourneur, and Jack Arnold. After hi

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Emile Ardolino Biography

Date of Birth:
May 9, 1943Birth Place:
Maspeth, New York, USA

Biography

Emmy-winning TV producer-director and Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker (for his profile on ballet dancer-teacher Jacques d'Amboise, "He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'" 1983). After a distinguished career in television as director and producer of PBS' "Dance in America" and "Live From Lincoln Center" cultural series and as director of Joseph Papp productions for TV, Ardolino scored a huge hit with his first fiction feature, the dance-driven teen romance, "Dirty Dancing" (1987). After this sweaty charmer, Ardolino helmed the lackadaisically fantastic "Chances Are" (1988) and the happy-face sequel "Three Men and A Little Lady" (1990). He did even better in the box-office stakes with the surprise hit "Sister Act" (1992) which starred Whoopi Goldberg as woman on the lam posing as a singing nun. This assured goofy comedy of transformation grossed $200 million. His last feature was a return to his preoccupation, dance on film: "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker" (1993) starring M

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