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  1. Apr 6, 2024 · Michael Curtiz (born December 25, 1886, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now in Hungary]—died April 10, 1962, Hollywood, California, U.S.) was a Hungarian-born American motion-picture director whose prolific output as a contract director for Warner Brothers was composed of many solid but run-of-the-mill genre films along with a string of motion picture classics that included Angels with Dirty ...

  2. Michael Curtiz. Director: Casablanca. Curtiz began acting in and then directing films in his native Hungary in 1912. After WWI, he continued his filmmaking career in Austria and Germany and into the early 1920s when he directed films in other countries in Europe. Moving to the US in 1926, he started making films in Hollywood for Warner Bros. and became thoroughly entrenched in the studio ...

  3. Jan 24, 2022 · A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. Votes: 605,187 | Gross: $1.02M. 2.

  4. Biography. One of the most prolific directors in the history of the cinema, Hungarian-born Michael Curtiz thrived in the studio system as the top helmsman at Warner Bros. Studio in the 1930s and 40s. Tirelessly hammering out four or five films a year, Curtiz relentlessly tackled both low-budget pictures and more prestigious Oscar-baiting fare ...

  5. Apr 10, 2012 · Curtiz (born Kertész Kaminer Manó in Hungary in 1886), was a journeyman, a man who flourished in the studio system after being picked out by Jack Warner for his Austrian Biblical epic “Moon of ...

  6. That year Curtiz also directed the melodrama Flamingo Road and the romantic comedy The Lady Takes a Sailor. Michael Curtiz - Hollywood Director, War Films, Casablanca: By 1938 Curtiz had become Warner Brothers’ most reliable moneymaker. He began the year inauspiciously with Gold Is Where You Find It, but then came The Adventures of Robin Hood ...

  7. 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 ...

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