Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride (also known as Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) is a 2005 British-American stop-motion animated musical dark comedy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton with a screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler based on characters created by Burton and Carlos Grangel. The plot is set in a fictional Victorian era village in Europe. Johnny Depp leads the cast as the voice of Victor, while Helena Bonham Carter voices Emily, the titular bride. "Corpse Bride" is the third stop-motion feature film produced by Burton and the first directed by him (the previous two films, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "James and the Giant Peach", were directed by Henry Selick). This is also the first stop-motion feature from Burton that was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was dedicated to executive producer Joe Ranft, who died in a car accident during production.
Charles Grodin
Grodin had a small but pivotal part playing an obstetrician in the 1968 horror film, "Rosemary's Baby". In 1964, he played Matt Stevens on the ABC soap opera "the Young Marrieds". During the late 1960s, he also co-wrote and directed "Hooray! It's a Glorious Day...and All That", a Broadway play, and directed "Lovers and Other Strangers" and "Thieves", also on Broadway. He also directed Simon and Garfunkel's television special "Songs of America" in 1969. However, he turned down the part of Benjamin Braddock in "The Graduate" because of the low salary offered by producer Lawrence Turman, although Turman assured him that the part would make him a star, as it ultimately did for Dustin Hoffman.