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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 film was directed by Michael Curtiz.
It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer.
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.
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.
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.
Directed by Hungarian-turned-Hollywood filmmaker Michael Curtiz and based on a story by Robert Buckner, it was filmed in early Technicolor.
Michael Curtiz ( December 24, 1886 April 10, 1962 ) was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director.
Curtiz was born Kertész Kaminer Manó to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary ( then Austria-Hungary ).
Curtiz left Hungary when the film industry was nationalised in 1919, during the brief Hungarian Soviet Republic, and soon settled in Vienna.
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.
During the 30s, Curtiz was often credited on four films in a single year, although he was not always the sole director on these projects.
One of his regular polo partners was Hal B. Wallis, who had met Curtiz on his arrival in the country and had established a close friendship with him.
Curtiz was frequently unfaithful, and had numerous sexual relationships with extras on set ; Meredyth once left him for a short time, but they remained married until 1961, shortly before Curtiz's death.
Curtiz was not popular with most of his colleagues, many of whom thought him arrogant.
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 ".
Michael Curtiz was nominated twice for Best Director, one for this film and the other for the box office hit comedy melodrama Four Daughters.
After many false starts he was finally cast in a supporting, yet crucial role as a tragic young composer in a Michael Curtiz film titled Four Daughters.

Curtiz and worked
While in Denmark, Curtiz worked as the assistant director for August Blom on Denmark's first multi-reel feature film, Atlantis.
She worked with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock on Stage Fright ( 1950 ), Frank Capra on Here Comes the Groom ( 1951 ) and Michael Curtiz on The Story of Will Rogers ( 1952 ).
Many notable directors worked with Dunne's screenplays, including Carol Reed, John Ford, Jacques Tourneur, Elia Kazan, Otto Preminger, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Michael Curtiz, among others.

Curtiz and took
He took the anglicised name " Michael Curtiz ".
However, Curtiz would not win, as Frank Capra took the Oscar for You Can't Take It With You.
In fact Charlie Chaplin took credit for penning the line, " In two words: im-possible "; and the quote, " the next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself ," has also been attributed to Michael Curtiz.
For Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz, who took Flynn from bit-player ranks to make Captain Blood and has made nine pictures with him since, it should prove a high point in their profitable relationship.

Curtiz and part
Curtiz paid part of his own salary into the European Film Fund, a benevolent association which helped European refugees in the film business establish themselves in the US.
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 and several
Offered a role in film as a prize for winning a magazine beauty competition in 1921, she appeared in several silent films before being offered her first leading role in Das Spielzeug von Paris ( 1925 ) by Hungarian-born director Michael Curtiz, whom she married in 1925 ( they divorced a year later ).
After several months, Mitchell eventually made two films for Warner Brothers, including Raoul Walsh's Colorado Territory, before following Curtiz to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The success of Rendezvous landed MacLane a contract with Warner Bros. and brought him to the attention of several renowned film directors, including Fritz Lang, Michael Curtiz, and William Keighley.

Curtiz and time
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.
Director Michael Curtiz did not want Crawford and told Jack Warner, " She comes over here with her high-hat airs and her goddamn shoulder pads ... why should I waste my time directing a has-been?

Curtiz and under
She retired permanently from acting following her appearance in This is the Army ( 1943 ), again under the direction of Michael Curtiz.
The second assistant was the young Hungarian director Mihály Kertész, who under the name Michael Curtiz became one the most well-known Hollywood directors through films such as Casablanca and White Christmas.
He also made his appearance in films under the direction of Veit Harlan, Artur Brauner, Jesús " Jess " Franco, René Clement, Michael Curtiz, Richard Fleischer, Jean-Pierre Mocky and many others.

Curtiz and .
* 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.
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.
* 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 ).
** 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.
" Curtiz demanded Crawford prove her suitability by taking a screen test.
After the test, Curtiz agreed to Crawford's casting.
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American swashbuckler film directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley.

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