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Anatomy of a Murder earned 7 Academy Award nominations, and Duke Ellington's jazz score won 3 Grammys.
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Marquette, Michigan
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Duke Ellington celebrated his 60th birthday in the Upper Peninsula while scoring Anatomy of a Murder during location filming.
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Anatomy of a Murder (1959), starring James Stewart, was filmed entirely in Michigan's Upper Peninsula — Big Bay, Marquette, and Ishpeming — based on a real 1952 murder case.
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Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder — with Jimmy Stewart as a small-town UP lawyer — earned seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and is consistently ranked among the greatest courtroom dramas in American film.
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Anatomy of a Murder is based on the true 1952 murder of Maurice Chenoweth in Big Bay, written as a novel by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver.