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Curtiz, Michael |
Date of birth
24 December 1886, Budapest, Hungary
Date of death
10 April 1962, Hollywood, California, USA
Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 — April 10, 1962)
Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 — April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American director.[1] 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 Christmas. He thrived in the heyday of the Warner Bros. studio in the 1930s and '40s.
He was less successful from the late 1940s onwards, when he attempted to move from studio direction into production and freelance work, but he continued working until shortly before his death.
“The only things you regret are the things you don't do.”
Curtiz was born Manó Kertész Kaminer to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary (then Austria-Hungary). He claimed to have been born December 24, 1886.
Both the date and the year are open to doubt: he was fond of telling tall stories about his early years, including that he had run away from home to join the circus and that he had been a member of the Hungarian fencing team at the 1912 Olympic Games, but he seems to have had a conventional middle-class upbringing.
He studied at Markoszy University and the Royal Academy of Theater and Art, Budapest, before beginning his career as an actor and director as Mihály Kertész at the National Hungarian Theater in 1912.[2]
Details of his early experience as a director are sparse, and it is not clear what part he may have played in the direction of several early films, but he is known to have directed at least one film in Hungary before spending six months in 1913 at the Nordisk studio in Denmark honing his craft. While in Denmark,
Curtiz worked as the assistant director for August Blom on Denmark's first multi-reel feature film, Atlantis. On the outbreak of World War I, he briefly served in the artillery of the Austro-Hungarian Army, but he had returned to film-making by 1915.
In that or the following year he married for the first time, to actress Lucy Doraine. The couple divorced in 1923.
Curtiz left Hungary when the film industry was nationalised in 1919, during the brief Hungarian Soviet Republic, and soon settled in Vienna.
He made at least 21 films for Sascha Films, among them the Biblical epics Sodom und Gomorrha (1922) and Die Sklavenkönigin (1924).
The latter, released in the US as Moon of Israel, caught the attention of Jack Warner, who hired Curtiz for his own studio with the intention of having him direct a similar film for Warner Brothers -- Noah's Ark, which was eventually produced in 1928.
Curtiz's second marriage, to another actress, Lili Damita, lasted from 1925 to 1926. When he went to America, Curtiz left behind at least one illegitimate son and one illegitimate daughter. (Wikipedia)
Selected filmography of
Curtiz, Michael
1961
The Comancheros (1961)
1960
A Breath of Scandal (1960)
1960
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
1958
King Creole (1958)
1957
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
1955
We're No Angels (1955)
1954
The Egyptian (1954)
1954
White Christmas (1954)
1951
I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
1951
Force of Arms (1951)
1942
Casablanca (1942)
1940
The Sea Hawk (1940)
1938
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
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