Michael Curtiz : a life in film
Motion picture producers and directors PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts) Curtiz, Michael, Biography
University Press of Kentucky
EISBN 9780813173962
Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; 1 A River Runs through It; 2 Actor to Director; 3 Transylvanian Idyll; 4 Phönix Rising; 5 A Stirred-up Anthill; 6 City of Film; 7 Monumental-Filme; 8 Exodus in Red Heels; 9 A Family Business; 10 Hungarian in the Promised Land; 11 A Loving Collaboration; 12 Hollywood's Great Deluge; 13 General Foreman; 14 Pre-Code in Synthetic Flesh; 15 Regime Change; 16 Home on the Range; 17 The Dream Team; 18 The Reason Why; 19 Falling Fruit; 20 Cash Cow; 21 Reaching Their Majority; 22 The Swash and the Buckler; 23 The "Pinochle" of His Career.
24 Fundamental Things25 "Those fine patriotic citizens, the Warner Brothers"; 26 Victory Garden; 27 A Michael Curtiz Production; 28 Vanished Dreams; 29 Doomed Masterpiece; 30 Nerve Ending; 31 Only in Hollywood; 32 Dégringolade; 33 Out on His Shield; Acknowledgments; Filmography; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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.
24 Fundamental Things25 "Those fine patriotic citizens, the Warner Brothers"; 26 Victory Garden; 27 A Michael Curtiz Production; 28 Vanished Dreams; 29 Doomed Masterpiece; 30 Nerve Ending; 31 Only in Hollywood; 32 Dégringolade; 33 Out on His Shield; Acknowledgments; Filmography; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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.
