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Michael Curtiz - A Life in Film (Hardcover)
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Michael Curtiz - A Life in Film (Hardcover)
Series: Screen Classics
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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.
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