Anne Newman Bacal

The Best Man

Franklin J. Schaffner

Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson

The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.

El Dorado

Howard Hawks

John Wayne, Robert Mitchum

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

The Thrill of It All

Norman Jewison

Doris Day, James Garner

A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.

The Death of Richie

Paul Wendkos

Ben Gazzara, Eileen Brennan

A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.

The Healers

Tom Gries

John Forsythe, Pat Harrington, Jr.

The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.

Return to Earth

Jud Taylor

Cliff Robertson, Shirley Knight

The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after his return to Earth, including the breakup of his marriage, a nervous breakdown and his hospitalization for psychiatric problems.

Beauty and the Beer

Anne Newman Bacal

Beauty and the Beer is a personal documentary produced by Anne Newman Bacal about the iconic Miss Rheingold contest. Begun in 1941 and ending in 1964, the contest was probably the most successful marketing campaign in American history. The film features interviews with former Miss Rheingolds, advertising executives who worked on the campaigns and fans of the contest including novelist Wally Lamb, advertising legend Jerry Della Femina and the writer Ilene Beckerman [Love Loss and What I Wore]. We’ve also collected extraordinary archival film, sound and stills from that period. Ms. Newman was a participant in the contest that shaped her early career. Years later, she looks back at the contest and her own experience as a woman coming to maturity in the 1960s.