Ocean's Eleven - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "Ocean's Eleven"
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Timing: 2:7 (127 min)
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Film crew

Director

Producer

Editor

Philip W. Anderson
Editor

Art Direction

Nicolai Remisoff
Art Direction

Costume Design

Howard Shoup

Howard Shoup
Costume Design

Set Decoration

Howard Bristol
Set Decoration

Original Music Composer

Photo Nelson Riddle #81394
Nelson Riddle
Original Music Composer

Associate Producer

Henry W. Sanicola
Associate Producer

Orchestrator

Director of Photography

William H. Daniels
Director of Photography

Camera Operator

A. Lindsley Lane
Camera Operator

Production Manager

Jack R. Berne
Production Manager

Screenplay

Harry Brown
Screenplay

Story

Photo Jack Golden Russell #73949
Jack Golden Russell
Story

Makeup Supervisor

Gordon Bau

Gordon Bau
Makeup Supervisor

Songs

Assistant Director

Ray Gosnell Jr.
Assistant Director

Conductor

Photo Nelson Riddle #81394
Nelson Riddle
Conductor

Sound

M.A. Merrick
Sound

Title Designer

Photo Saul Bass #25156

Saul Bass

Saul Bass
Title Designer

Producer's Assistant

Photo Richard Benedict #81349
Richard Benedict
Producer's Assistant

What's left behind the scenes

  • All members of the "Rat Pack," led by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr., appeared in this film. The only one who did not participate was Humphrey Bogart, the founder of the "Rat Pack." He was already deceased at the time of filming.
  • According to the lead actor Frank Sinatra (1915-1998), Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990) had to be housed in a "blacks-only" hotel for the duration of filming because black people were not allowed to stay in the major hotels in Las Vegas, even though Davis Jr. appeared at the Sands Hotel with Sinatra, Dean Martin (1917-1995) and the rest of the filming crew. He only settled into one of the larger hotels after Sinatra intervened on his behalf with the casino owners.
  • The relationships between the characters shown in the film were largely the result of improvisation. The actors in the leading roles knew each other well, so the lines they came up with sounded as good as, or even better than, those written in the script.
  • Filming mostly took place in the early morning hours before dawn, as many of the actors had their own shows in Las Vegas during the day that they couldn't miss. The actors would wake up after noon, participate in one or two evening performances, then get their makeup done and arrive on set. Everything on set was prepared in advance to avoid wasting time.
  • Shirley MacLaine played a cameo role here during a break from filming Billy Wilder's (1906-2002) tragicomedy 'The Apartment' (1960). She was offered a car by the studio to take her back, but she refused, preferring to spend time with her friends from the so-called 'Rat Pack' (a group of American show business figures from the 1950s and 1960s that formed around Humphrey Bogart and his wife Lauren Bacall; in the early 1960s, group leaders Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. often performed in Las Vegas clubs and on television with improvised comedic and musical numbers) and see a show.
  • According to Billy Wilder, he decided to help write the screenplay for the film as a favor to Frank Sinatra, who in gratitude gifted him a drawing by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973).
  • One of the most difficult problems the filmmakers had to solve was convincing officials from Clark County to rent them a garbage truck.
  • According to Frank Sinatra, the film's original ending was quite different: the protagonists managed to escape from Las Vegas on a chartered plane piloted by one of them, but then they all perished in a plane crash. This ending didn't appeal to anyone, so the finale was rewritten, and it turned out that the stolen money was cremated along with the body of one of Danny's friends. This idea was suggested by director Lewis Milestone (1895-1980, birth name – Leib Milstein), who had recently attended the cremation of a deceased friend.
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