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Mark Robson, (born December 4, 1913, Montreal, Quebec, Canada—died June 20, 1978, London, England), Canadian-born U.S. film director. As an assistant editor at RKO, he worked on Orson Welles’s first two movies, Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). In 1943 Robson made his directorial debut with The Seventh Victim. In the ensuing years he became known for his versatility, helming boxing dramas, war movies, and socially conscious fare as well as melodramas. His notable films included Home of the Brave (1949), Return to Paradise (1953), The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), The Harder They Fall (1956), and The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958). In addition, he directed the commercial blockbusters Peyton Place (1957) and Valley of the Dolls (1967).

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Directing, the craft of controlling the evolution of a performance out of material composed or assembled by an author. The performance may be live, as in a theatre and in some broadcasts, or it may be recorded, as in motion pictures and the majority of broadcast material. The term is also used in
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Film, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film