- 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
A Michael Curtiz Production
A Michael Curtiz Production
- Chapter:
- (p.389) 27 A Michael Curtiz Production
- Source:
- Michael Curtiz
- Author(s):
Alan K. Rode
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
Curtiz pressed Jack Warner to support the start-up of hisproduction company while directing Life with Father, his longest production at Warner Bros. Life with Father was complicated by the contractual power of Clarence Day Jr.’s widow as well as Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, who exercised creative control over the entire production. The back story of the movie is supplemented by a firsthand account from the actor Jimmy Lydon. After Life with Father became another box-office hit,and a mini-scandal involving one of his Hungarian assistants and his daughter Kitty was covered up by the studio, Curtiz got the go-ahead to set up his production company on the Warner lot.After selling the Canoga Ranch and moving to a smaller spread in Encino, he produced his first independent film, The Unsuspected. Curtiz sought stars—including Orson Welles, Ava Gardner, and Dana Andrews—but ended up with Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, and a newcomer, Michael North. The picture was a visual delight, but it didn’t fare well at the box office. Curtiz needed another picture with a new star in order to keep his new company running.
Keywords: Life with Father, Katherine Day, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Irene Dunne, William Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Jimmy Lydon, Conference of Studio Unions (CSU), The Unsuspected, Michael Curtiz Productions
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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
