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Robert Benton, Director of Best Picture Winner ‘Kramer vs. Kramer,’ Dies at 92
Robert Benton, who helmed best picture winner “Kramer vs. Kramer” and collaborated on the screenplay for "Bonnie and Clyde," died Sunday in Manhattan.
They continued their collaborative efforts with Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s “There Was a Crooked Man” in 1970 and Peter Bogdanovich’s “What’s Up, Doc?,” were among the writers on 1978 blockbuster “Superman” and made contributions to the film version of “Oh Calcutta!” When Newman decided he wanted to direct, Benton got the itch, too. Then, through his agent Sam Cohn, Benton submitted his tongue-in-cheek detective yarn “The Late Show” to Robert Altman, who agreed to produce, with Art Carney and Lily Tomlin starring, in 1977. Two years later, however, “Places in the Heart,” set in his Texas home town, proved a modest commercial success and won Oscars for Field and for Benton’s detailed script.
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