- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Prologue
-
1 A River Runs through It -
2 Actor to Director -
3 Transylvanian Idyll -
4 Phönix Rising -
5 A Stirred-up Anthill -
6 City of Film -
7 Monumental-Filme -
8 Exodus in Red Heels -
9 A Family Business -
10 Hungarian in the Promised Land -
11 A Loving Collaboration -
12 Hollywood’s Great Deluge -
13 General Foreman -
14 Pre-Code in Synthetic Flesh -
15 Regime Change -
16 Home on the Range -
17 The Dream Team -
18 The Reason Why -
19 Falling Fruit -
20 Cash Cow -
21 Reaching Their Majority -
22 The Swash and the Buckler -
23 The “Pinochle” of His Career -
24 Fundamental Things -
25 “Those fine patriotic citizens, the Warner Brothers” -
26 Victory Garden -
27 A Michael Curtiz Production -
28 Vanished Dreams -
29 Doomed Masterpiece -
30 Nerve Ending -
31 Only in Hollywood -
32 Dégringolade -
33 Out on His Shield - Acknowledgments
-
Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
- Screen Classics
Exodus in Red Heels
Exodus in Red Heels
- Chapter:
- (p.54) 8 Exodus in Red Heels
- Source:
- Michael Curtiz
- Author(s):
Alan K. Rode
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
MathildeFoerster suedKertész for child support. Humiliated by the bad publicity, he held a grudge against Foerster. His latest child—a daughter, Sonja—was born to the actress Teresa DallaBona in 1923. Because of the implosion of the European film industry, Kolowrat and Kertész decided to go all in with another biblical epic, The Moon of Israel (1924), based on H. Rider Haggard’s novel. The film, starring his friend’s wife Maria Corda and featuring a climactic parting of the Red Sea, becameKertész’s outstanding silent epic.It was a hit in Europe, but the mogul Adolph Zukor, head of Famous Players Lasky (Paramount), bought the American rights and refused to exhibit the film because of the potential competition with his studio’s The Ten Commandments (1923). Kertész pivoted to direct a new series of films starring Lili Damita, with whom he had a passionate affair but did not marry. His production of Das Spielzeug von Paris (The Toy of Paris)(1925) coincided with the birth of his second son, Michael, with the actress FranziVondrak. He completed two more films with Damita, Fiaker No. 13 and The Golden Butterfly, and thenHarry Warner offered him a contract to direct in Hollywood.
Keywords: The Moon of Israel, H. Rider Haggard, Maria Corda, Adolph Zukor, Lili Damita, Das Spielzeug von Paris, Fiaker No. 13
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Prologue
-
1 A River Runs through It -
2 Actor to Director -
3 Transylvanian Idyll -
4 Phönix Rising -
5 A Stirred-up Anthill -
6 City of Film -
7 Monumental-Filme -
8 Exodus in Red Heels -
9 A Family Business -
10 Hungarian in the Promised Land -
11 A Loving Collaboration -
12 Hollywood’s Great Deluge -
13 General Foreman -
14 Pre-Code in Synthetic Flesh -
15 Regime Change -
16 Home on the Range -
17 The Dream Team -
18 The Reason Why -
19 Falling Fruit -
20 Cash Cow -
21 Reaching Their Majority -
22 The Swash and the Buckler -
23 The “Pinochle” of His Career -
24 Fundamental Things -
25 “Those fine patriotic citizens, the Warner Brothers” -
26 Victory Garden -
27 A Michael Curtiz Production -
28 Vanished Dreams -
29 Doomed Masterpiece -
30 Nerve Ending -
31 Only in Hollywood -
32 Dégringolade -
33 Out on His Shield - Acknowledgments
-
Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
- Screen Classics
