Leslie Browne
Leslie Browne( born June 29, 1957) is an American prima ballerina and actress.
She was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York City from 1986 until 1993.
She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as a Golden Globe Award at age 20, for portraying a young dancer invited to join a large New York ballet company in" The Turning Point"( 1977).
Herbert Ross
Herbert David Ross( May 13, 1927 – October 9, 2001) was an American actor, choreographer, director and producer who worked predominantly in the stage and film.
Jerry Jost
Jerry Jost( died December 30, 2014) was an American sound engineer.
He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film" The Turning Point".
Deadline at Dawn
Deadline at Dawn is a 1946 film noir, the only film directed by stage director Harold Clurman.
It was written by Clifford Odets and based on a novel of the same name by Cornell Woolrich( as William Irish).
The RKO Pictures film release was the only cinematic collaboration between Clurman and his former Group Theatre associate, screenwriter Odets.
The director of photography was RKO regular Nicholas Musuraca.
The musical score was by German refugee composer Hanns Eisler.
Isabel Mirrow Brown
Isabel Mirrow Brown( June 9, 1928- August 2014) was an American ballerina.
A fictionalized version of her life was documented in the 1977 film" The Turning Point", in which she was portrayed by Shirley Maclaine, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.
Cheering Section
Cheering Section is a 1977 film.
Mario Brunello
Mario Brunello( born 1960) is an Italian cellist and musician.
The turning point in his artistic life was the 1986 victory of the International Tchaikovsky Competition.
Arthur Laurents
Arthur Laurents( July 14, 1917 – May 5, 2011) was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter.
After writing scripts for radio shows after college and then training films for the U.S. Army during World War II, Laurents turned to writing for Broadway, producing a body of work that includes" West Side Story"( 1957),( 1959), and" Hallelujah, Baby!"( 1967), and directing some of his own shows and other Broadway productions.
His early film scripts include" Rope"( 1948) for Alfred Hitchcock, followed by" Anastasia"( 1956)," Bonjour Tristesse"( 1958)," The Way We Were"( 1973), and" The Turning Point"( 1977).
The Turning Point (1977 film)
The Turning Point is a 1977 American drama film centered on the world of ballet in New York City, written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross.
The film stars Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft, along with Leslie Browne, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Tom Skerritt.
The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
The script is a fictionalized version of the real- life Brown family and the friendship between ballerinas Isabel Mirrow Brown( whose daughter, Leslie Browne, stars in the film) and Nora Kaye.
Harold Clurman
Harold Edgar Clurman( September 18, 1901 – September 9, 1980) was an American theatre director and drama critic," one of the most influential in the United States".
He was most notable as one of the three founders of New York City's Group Theatre( 1931 – 1941).
He directed more than 40 plays in his career and, during the 1950s, was nominated for a Tony Award as director for several productions.
In addition to his directing career, he was drama critic for" The New Republic"( 1948 – 52) and" The Nation"( 1953 – 1980), helping shape American theater by writing about it.
Clurman wrote seven books about the theatre, including his memoir" The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties"( 1961).

Question: Do both Deadline At Dawn and The Turning Point (1977 Film) films have the directors from the same country?
Answer: yes