- 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
General Foreman
General Foreman
- Chapter:
- (p.103) 13 General Foreman
- Source:
- Michael Curtiz
- Author(s):
Alan K. Rode
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
Curtiz settled in as a contract director at Warner Bros. The Warners bought out First National while continuing to grow into one of Hollywood’s major film studios. Under Jack Warner and Zanuck, prices were reduced and picture output doubled. From 1929 to 1934 Curtiz directed a total of thirty feature films, or six per year—a superhuman output by any measure.Curtiz became friendly with Zanuck, and the pair worked together harmoniously. Curtiz’s initial films in 1929–30, including Glad Rag Doll,The Gamblers, and Madonna of Avenue A, were successful at the box office. He directed the great Al Jolson in Mammy (1930), followed by a series of mostly unsuccessful films starring the egomaniacal Frank Fay. The descriptions and production details of his films during this period are interspersed with an account of how Curtiz had to leave the country with Bess in August 1931 to restart his entry to the United Stares toward obtaining his American citizenship.At this point he was becoming frustrated with his film assignments at Warners and yearned to direct more important films to prove himself as an American director of consequence.
Keywords: First National Pictures, Glad Rag Doll, The Madonna of Avenue A, Mammy, Al Jolson, River’s End, Charles Bickford, Dämon des Meeres, William Dieterle, Curtiz citizenship
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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
