Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film

by Alan K. Rode

Book Overview

Academy Award--winning director Michael Curtiz (1886--1962) -- whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) -- was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his unprecedented twenty-seven year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, westerns, musicals, war epics, romances, historical dramas, horror films, tearjerkers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813180430
• ISBN13: 9780813180434
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 712 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"