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

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.

* 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.

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.

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

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

* 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.

* 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 ).

", The Big Sleep directed by Howard Hawks ( 1946 ), The Lady Eve directed by Preston Sturges ( 1941 ), The Shop Around the Corner directed by Ernst Lubitsch ( 1940 ), White Heat directed by Raoul Walsh ( 1949 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), and Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock, ( 1946 ).

** 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.

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?

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.

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

Category: Films directed by Michael Curtiz

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.

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 ".

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

Demonstrating the primitive African rhythmic backgrounds of the Blues was Michael Babatunde Olatunji, who plays such native drums as the konga and even does a resounding job slapping his own chest.

Michael and Mary was adapted to cinema in 1931.

The first Sheriff, Mr Samuel Smart, was wounded during the robbery, and on 2 May 1838 one of the offenders, Michael Magee, became the first person to be hanged in South Australia.

Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.

Alexander Jagellon never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favor principally upon his fellow Lithuanians, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michael Glinski, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck ( 5 August 1506 ), news of which was brought to Alexander on his deathbed in Vilnius.

Under Michael VII Doukas Parapinakes ( 1071 – 1078 ) and Nikephoros III Botaneiates ( 1078 – 1081 ), he was also employed, along with his elder brother Isaac, against rebels in Asia Minor, Thrace, and in Epirus.

First married to Michael VII Doukas and secondly to Nikephoros III Botaneiates, she was preoccupied with the future of her son by Michael VII, Constantine Doukas.

During this time, Alexios was rumored to be the lover of Empress Maria of Alania, the daughter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia, who had been successively married to Michael VII Doukas and his successor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, renowned for her beauty.

At that point the deposed emperor was ransomed by Michael I of Epirus, who sent him to Asia Minor, where Alexios ' son-in-law Theodore I Laskaris of the Empire of Nicaea was holding his own against the Latins.

* Eirene Angelina, who married ( 1 ) Andronikos Kontostephanos, and ( 2 ) Alexios Palaiologos, by whom she was the grandmother of Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.

He was the last Byzantine Emperor to reign in Constantinople before the establishment of the Latin Empire, which controlled the city for the next 57 years, until it was recovered by the Nicaean Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.

Andronikos III was the son of Michael IX Palaiologos and Rita of Armenia ( renamed Maria ).

He was the eldest surviving son of Michael VIII Palaiologos and Theodora Doukaina Vatatzina, grandniece of John III Doukas Vatatzes.

He was acclaimed co-emperor in 1261, after his father Michael VIII recovered Constantinople from the Latin Empire, but he was crowned only in 1272.

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

In the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.

In the 2001 NFL Draft, the Falcons orchestrated a trade with the San Diego Chargers, acquiring the first overall pick ( which was used on quarterback Michael Vick ) in exchange for wide receiver / return specialist Tim Dwight and the fifth overall pick ( used on running back LaDainian Tomlinson ).

In 2004, a new head coach, Jim L. Mora, was hired and Michael Vick returned for the full season.