- 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
Hungarian in the Promised Land
Hungarian in the Promised Land
- Chapter:
- (p.71) 10 Hungarian in the Promised Land
- Source:
- Michael Curtiz
- Author(s):
Alan K. Rode
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
Curtiz arrived in New York City via the ocean liner Leviathan on June 10, 1926; the story that his ship docked on July 4 and he thought the holiday fireworks were a celebration of his American arrival was a PR fiction that would be repeated for decades by Warner, Hal Wallis, and Curtiz. Curtiz arrived in Hollywood with his treatment of Noah’s Ark, but instead Jack Warner assigned him a crime drama, The Third Degree (1926), based on a 1908 stage play. He scrambled to learn about American criminal procedures by spending time in the L.A. County Jail and having the script translated into Hungarian. He added a great deal of unscripted material to the picture, a harbinger of future strife between him and the studio.As he completed more pictures for Warner Bros., including A Million Bid and The Desired Woman, he began his long association with Darryl F. Zanuck.He also met the screenwriter Bess Meredyth,who would become his second wife. His immigration status proved to be a problem, as it had to be extended each year by Warner Bros. until he could become a legal resident.
Keywords: The Third Degree, Charles Klein, Henry Blanke, Hal Mohr, Vitaphone, Michael Romanoff, A Million Bid, Good Time Charley, Will Hays
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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
