These films did poorly, however, whether as part of the changes in the film industry in this period or because Curtiz " had no skills in shaping the entirety of a picture ".

Curtiz was always extremely active: he worked very long days, took part in several sports in his spare time, and was often found to sleep under a cold shower.

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.

Sidney Rosenzweig argues that Curtiz did have his own distinctive style, which was in place by the time of his move to America: " high crane shots to establish a story's environment ; unusual camera angles and complex compositions in which characters are often framed by physical objects ; much camera movement ; subjective shots, in which the camera becomes the character's eye ; and high contrast lighting with pools of shadows ".

Either way, as Curtiz himself said, " You are only appreciated so far as you carry the dough into the box office.

The play adaptation of Life With Father was made into a film in 1947, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring William Powell and Irene Dunne as Clarence and his wife, supported by Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, ZaSu Pitts, Jimmy Lydon and Martin Milner.

He was talked into taking his first role, in the 1922 Austrian film Sodom und Gomorrah, by his friend and the film's director, Michael Curtiz.

* The Egyptian, motion picture ( 1954, directed by Michael Curtiz, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ), based on the novel by Mika Waltari.

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In 1948, after being persuaded by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and her agent at the time, Al Levy, she auditioned for Michael Curtiz, which led to her being cast in the female lead role in Romance on the High Seas.

The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, and was based on the Maxwell Anderson play, Elizabeth the Queen, which had been successful on Broadway with Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in the lead roles.

The novel was adapted by screenwriters Herbert Baker and Michael V. Gazzo as the 1958 movie King Creole for Elvis Presley, co-starring Walter Matthau and Carolyn Jones and directed by Michael Curtiz, which was loosely based on the novel.

He is the author of psychological dramas such as: Lady of the Sunflower ( 1912 ; filmed in 1918 by Michael Curtiz ), and of pieces such as: Dance of Masks in the Attic ( 1922 ), which reflect the influence of Luigi Pirandello on Vojnović.

* The Fishing Bell, a 1917 Hungarian film directed by Michael Curtiz

The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by Hal Wallis and featured a strong cast, including Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson.

( In 1938, Michael Curtiz was nominated twice, for Angels with Dirty Faces and Four Daughters, but did not win for either film.

* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1960 film ), directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Eddie Hodges

After the success of the studio's 1929 First National film Noah's Ark, Harry agreed to make Michael Curtiz a major director at the Burbank studio.

** Michael Curtiz, Austrian-born film director ( b. 1886 )

" In 1950, Michael Curtiz directed the film Young Man with a Horn, starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day.

The film was directed by Michael Curtiz.

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and, despite not being nominated, Michael Curtiz received the second-greatest number of votes for Best Director, solely as a write-in candidate.

The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American swashbuckler film directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley.

Rains later credited director Michael Curtiz with teaching him the more understated requirements of film acting, or " what not to do in front of a camera ".

* The Egyptian ( film ), a 1954 film by Michael Curtiz, based on Waltari's novel

When film director Michael Curtiz adapted Mildred Pierce for the big screen in 1945, he lived up to the cinemagoers ' and the producers ' expectations by adding a murder that is not in the novel.

Michael Curtiz ( December 24, 1886 April 10, 1962 ) was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director.

While in Denmark, Curtiz worked as the assistant director for August Blom on Denmark's first multi-reel feature film, Atlantis.

Curtiz left Hungary when the film industry was nationalised in 1919, during the brief Hungarian Soviet Republic, and soon settled in Vienna.

* Lulu ( 1918 film ), a film directed by Michael Curtiz

Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O ' Brien, the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft.

Michael Curtiz was nominated twice for Best Director, one for this film and the other for the box office hit comedy melodrama Four Daughters.

Curtiz would later reteam with Humphrey Bogart for his landmark film, that won him an Oscar, Casablanca.

Although director Curtiz was famous for being a taskmaster, he also gave his actors some latitude, and Cagney and other players improvised a number of " bits of business ," as Cagney called them.

* 1886 – Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director ( d. 1962 )

Directors such as Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, and Michael Curtiz brought a dramatically shadowed lighting style and a psychologically expressive approach to visual composition, or mise-en-scène, with them to Hollywood, where they would make some of the most famous of classic noirs.

By 1931, Curtiz had already been in Hollywood for half a decade, making as many as six films a year.

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He adds that " studio directors like Michael Curtiz and Raoul Walsh ... were heroes of mine.

* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).

" Curtiz demanded Crawford prove her suitability by taking a screen test.

After the test, Curtiz agreed to Crawford's casting.

It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer.

Coffee and Julius J. Epstein from the Fannie Hurst novel Sister Act, and was directed by Michael Curtiz.

It was followed by 1939's Daughters Courageous, also directed by Michael Curtiz and co-starring Claude Rains and John Garfield, though it is a story about a different family.

The screenplay was adapted by Ranald MacDougall, William Faulkner, and Catherine Turney and directed by Michael Curtiz.

The movie was written by Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph, and directed by Michael Curtiz.