Out of Africa (film) American Film Institute recognition Out of Africa (film) Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is based loosely on the autobiographical book "Out of Africa" written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), which was published in 1937, with additional material from Dinesen's book "Shadows on the Grass" and other sources. The book was adapted into a screenplay by the writer Kurt Luedtke, and directed by the American Sydney Pollack. Streep played Karen Blixen; Redford played Denys Finch
Thanks for the Memory (film) out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé. Thanks for the Memory (film) Thanks for the Memory is a 1938 film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Bob Hope and Shirley Ross. The film represented Paramount Pictures' attempt to capitalize on the overwhelmingly positive response to the Oscar winning song, "Thanks for the Memory," as performed by Hope and Ross in "The Big Broadcast of 1938", released by the studio earlier the same year. The film plot, based on a 1930 stage play "Up Pops the Devil"