Michael Curtiz (eBook)

A Life in Film

Alan K. Rode (Autor)

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2017
712 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-7397-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Academy Award--winning director Michael Curtiz (1886--1962) -- whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) -- was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his unprecedented twenty-seven year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, westerns, musicals, war epics, romances, historical dramas, horror films, tearjerkers, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces. The director's staggering output of 180 films surpasses that of the legendary John Ford and exceeds the combined total of films directed by George Cukor, Victor Fleming, and Howard Hawks.In the first biography of this colorful, instinctual artist, Alan K. Rode illuminates the life and work of one of the film industry's most complex figures. He begins by exploring the director's early life and career in his native Hungary, revealing how Curtiz shaped the earliest days of silent cinema in Europe as he acted in, produced, and directed scores of films before immigrating to the United States in 1926. In Hollywood, Curtiz earned a reputation for his explosive tantrums, his difficulty communicating in English, and his disregard for the well-being of others. However, few directors elicited more memorable portrayals from their casts, and ten different actors delivered Oscar-nominated performances under his direction.In addition to his study of the director's remarkable legacy, Rode investigates Curtiz's dramatic personal life, discussing his enduring creative partnership with his wife, screenwriter Bess Meredyth, as well as his numerous affairs and children born of his extramarital relationships. This meticulously researched biography provides a nuanced understanding of one of the most talented filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age.

Autor

lt;P>Writer and film scholar Alan K. Rode is the author of Charles McGraw: Film Noir Tough Guy. He is the host and producer of the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, California, and director-treasurer of the Film Noir Foundation. He lives in Woodland Hills, California.

Inhalt

PrologueA River Runs Through ItActor to DirectorTransylvanian IdyllPhönix RisingA Stirred-up AnthillCity of FilmMonumental-FilmeExodus in Red HeelsA Family BusinessHungarian in the Promised LandA Loving CollaborationHollywood's Great DelugeGeneral ForemanPre-Code in Synthetic FleshRegime ChagneHome on the RangeThe Dream TeamThe Reason WhyFalling FruitCash CowReaching Their MajorityThe Swash and BucklerThe Pinochle of His CareerFundamental ThingsThose fine patriotic Americans, the Warner BrothersVictory GardenA Michael Curtiz ProductionVanished DreamsDoomed MasterpieceNerve EndingOnly in HollywoodDégringoladeOut on His ShieldAcknowledgementsFilmographyNotesBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Screen Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Screen Classics
• Zusatzinfo: 78 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Academy Award • Bess Meredyth • Bette Davis • Bing Crosby • Casablanca • casey robinson • Censorship • Classical Hollywood Cinema • Darryl Zanuck • Director • Errol Flynn • Golden Age • Golden age of Hollywood • Hal Wallis • Hollywood • Hollywood's Golden Age • Hollywood Studio System • Humphrey Bogart • James Cagney • John Barrymore • John Garfield • john meredyth lucas • Olivia de Havilland • production code authority • Review • robert buckner • Silent Films • steve trilling • Studio Era • tc wright • Technicolor • Warner Bros • Warner Brothers • White Christmas • yankee doodle dandy
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-7397-3 / 0813173973
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7397-9 / 9780813173979