We can in fact credit Roger Corman with the birth of the American New Wave in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
In case you aren’t savvy, Roger Corman has made hundreds of films and launched the careers of a legion of successful filmmakers and actors.
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Scorsese, Nicholson, Towne, Coppola and many more learned their trade by working for and with Corman and later, his producing partner and wife, Julie Corman.