Bibliograph

Michael Curtiz, a life in film, Alan K. Rode

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Michael Curtiz, a life in film, Alan K. Rode

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Michael Curtiz

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

974475401

Responsibility statement

Alan K. Rode

Series statement

Screen classics

Sub title

a life in film

Summary

In the first biography of Michael Curtiz, 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

Table Of Contents

A river runs through it -- Actor to director -- Transylvanian idyll -- Phönix rising -- A stirred-up anthill -- City of film -- Monumental-Filme -- Exodus in red heels -- A family business -- Hungarian in the promised land -- A loving collaboration -- Hollywood's great deluge -- General foreman -- Pre-code in synthetic flesh -- Regime change -- Home on the range -- The dream team -- The reason why -- Falling fruit -- Cash cow -- Reaching their majority -- The swash and the buckler -- The "pinochle" of his career -- Fundamental things -- "Those fine patriotic citizens, the Warner Brothers" -- Victory garden -- A Michael Curtiz production -- Vanished dreams -- Doomed masterpiece -- Nerve ending -- Only in Hollywood -- Dégringolade -- Out on his shield

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