Michael Curtiz : a life in film

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Academy Award-winning director Michael Curtiz (1886-1962) - whose best-known films include Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, and White Christmas - was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his unprecedented 27-year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, Westerns,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rode, Alan K., 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2017]
Series:Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
Subjects:
Curtiz, Michael, > 1886-1962.
Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • 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
  • Acknowledgments
  • Filmography
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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