Fame hasn't been kind to Melvin Dummar. He was the subject of a Oscar-winning movie, "Melvin and Howard," in 1980, and he even had a cameo. But he received a mere pittance from the film depicting ...

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Dummar, who made international headlines and inspired the film “Melvin and Howard” (1980 ... New York Times movie critic Vincent Canby wrote that the filmmakers “take Melvin’s tale ...

That movie was based on the story of Melvin Dummar, a Utah gas station owner who claimed that Howard Hughes, in a handwritten will, had left him a share of his vast fortune. Vincent Canby ...

Phillips expanded into producing in 1974. His first movie as a producer was Universal’s 1980 film Melvin and Howard, for which Phillips hired then-little known filmmaker Jonathan Demme to direct ...

Deadpool & Wolverine was the top film at the weekend box office for the fifth time in six weeks. Click to find out which new film made it to the top five. You Gotta Believe, starring Luke Wilson ...

Dummar, who made international headlines and inspired the 1980 film “Melvin and Howard” with claims that ... New York Times movie critic Vincent Canby wrote that the filmmakers “take Melvin ...

Phillips expanded into producing in 1974. His first movie as a producer was Universal’s 1980 film Melvin and Howard, for which Phillips hired then-little known filmmaker Jonathan Demme to direct ...