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Jan 4, 2018 · “Michael Curtiz: A Life in Films,” a thoroughly researched, 681-page biography by Alan K. Rode, has just been published and a collection of critical essays, “The Many Cinemas of Michael ...
Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 — April 10, 1962), born Manó Kaminer, was a Hungarian-American film director. He had early credits as Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész. He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the United States. The best-known were The Adventures of Robin Hood, Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White ...
Director Michael Curtiz Stars Kay Francis George Brent Glenda Farrell. 14. Mandalay. 1934 1h 5m Passed. 6.6 (1.1K) Rate. Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid.Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of ...
Aug 5, 2014 · But Curtiz himself need not be the end of any conversation about substance and theme in his works. Ford, after all, assessed his own career with the understated “I direct Westerns,” and Hawks ...
Michael Curtiz - Film Director, Casablanca, Adventures: The drama Bright Leaf was unremarkable, but Curtiz’s two other efforts in 1950 were better received. Young Man with a Horn starred Kirk Douglas as a character based on jazz great Bix Beiderbecke, and with The Breaking Point Curtiz fashioned what some critics believe to be the best adaptation of any novel by Ernest Hemingway, in this ...
Michael Curtiz was a prolific filmmaker who directed over 170 films during his career, spanning from the silent era to the 1960s. He was known for his versatility and ability to work in a variety of genres, including musicals, Westerns, swashbucklers, and dramas. Some of his most notable and beloved films include: “Casablanca” (1942)
