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Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 — April 10, 1962), born Manó Kaminer, was a Hungarian-American film director. He had early credits as Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész. He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the United States. The best-known were The Adventures of Robin Hood, Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas. He thrived in the heyday of the Warner Bros. studio in the 1930s and '40s.
Curtiz was less successful from the late 1940s onwards, when he attempted to move from studio direction into production and freelance work, but he continued working until shortly before his death.
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21 September 1930
A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
14 October 1954
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business.
15 January 1943
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
22 December 1939
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
09 June 1934
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
13 April 1931
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
14 March 1928
Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout.
09 January 1932
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party.
23 March 1940
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers.
16 October 1923
At the urging of his dying aunt, a young man of limited means forgoes marriage into comfortable society.
06 March 1926
The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman.
30 October 1930
A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.
31 January 1945
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
29 June 1929
A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge.
29 April 1943
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
21 July 1960
From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
13 May 1938
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
09 September 1933
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband.
12 February 1938
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands.
22 March 1914
Goldigger is about the California Gold Rush. Xarkrow, the lead character, leaves his home in Fortanska, a fictional city in Hungary, to go to California to dig for gold in the hills of the Sierra Nevada.
23 June 1939
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman.
29 May 1942
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
10 September 1920
Early Curtiz feature. Sequel to The Star of Damascus
05 October 1918
The Devil, in the guise of a human, meets a young couple who remark upon looking at a Renaissance painting of a martyr that Evil could never triumph over Good.
27 May 1927
To satisfy her controlling mother and secure both of their futures, a daughter hesitantly enters a loveless marriage to a wealthy businessman.
12 March 1951
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview.
14 August 1943
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer.
20 October 1945
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
09 April 1917
Early Hungarian silent film from Michael Curtiz
25 August 1954
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah.
28 September 1956
Ray Henderson joins Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team.
04 December 1918
Early Curtiz feature
24 August 1951
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
24 December 1932
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
16 December 1961
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
16 October 1916
Early Hungarian feature from Michael Curtiz
07 December 1917
Early Curtiz film from Hungary
17 July 1952
Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers
06 November 1916
Early Hungarian feature from Michael Curtiz
05 October 1923
Patriotic Austrian costume drama, about the martyr Medardus who opposed Napoleon's occupation of Vienna in 1809.
14 February 1953
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
07 July 1955
Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town.
10 March 1919
Early Curtiz feature
02 July 1958
Delinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform.
22 October 1917
Early Hungarian film from Michael Curtiz
11 November 1933
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
08 January 1917
Early Hungarian feature from Michael Curtiz
01 December 1926
Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. Fifteen years later, Annie Martin, Alicia's deserted daughter, is a trapeze performer in a sideshow at Coney Island, operated by Mr.
11 March 1944
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
01 November 1928
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
01 July 1958
Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned down the family home--a Confederate veteran finds himself facing a 30-day jail sentence when he's unfairly accused of starting a brawl in a small town.
06 December 1918
Early Curtiz feature
01 January 1918
It is a variation on the original legend of Alraune in which a Mad Scientist creates a beautiful but demonic child from the forced union between a woman and a Mandrake root.
02 July 1946
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital.
