All This, Jack Warner, and Bette Davis, Too

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan R. Ellenberger
Keyword(s):  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Michael Curtiz ◽  
Virginia City ◽  
Red Hair ◽  
Bette Davis ◽  
Anatole Litvak ◽  
Political Differences

Jack Warner cancels All This, and Heaven Too, a decision that Hopkins doesn’t take well. They agree that when the film is produced, Hopkins will do it. When her divorce is granted, she returns to Hollywood and is blackmailed by Jack Warner. At an impasse, Hopkins relinquishes All This, and Heaven Too and accepts a role opposite Errol Flynn. On Virginia City, Hopkins battles with Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. Zuckmayer returns to Vermont; Hopkins is devastated. Warner Bros. produces All This, and Heaven Too with Bette Davis. Hopkins is almost broke. She appears in The Guardsman for Bela Blau, but her political differences with Fascist costar Tullio Carminati postpones production and Blau sues Hopkins. Once resolved, Hopkins agrees to do a play by a new writer, Tennessee Williams, but not until she makes her next film, Lady with Red Hair. Hopkins’s battles continue at the studio. She reunites with ex-husband Anatole Litvak, until a scandal ends their relationship.

Tola

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan R. Ellenberger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Film ◽  
Gone With The Wind ◽  
Bette Davis ◽  
Anatole Litvak ◽  
Theatre Guild

On her return to the United States, Hopkins meets Russian-born director Anatole Litvak. They become close, and she stars in his first American film, The Woman I Love. Her costar Paul Muni is bothered by Hopkins’s interference, and fights ensue. Hopkins buys the former estate of John Gilbert. Warner Bros. plans to make Jezebel, a part Hopkins wants, however, she is tricked into selling her rights and the role is given to Bette Davis. Discouraged, Hopkins returns to Goldwyn and makes Woman Chases Man. Polls claim that Hopkins is the number one choice to play Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind, but David O. Selznick has other plans. Hopkins moves into her new Tower Grove home. She elopes with Anatole Litvak and appears in Wine of Choice for the Theatre Guild, but it fails to meet her standards. She is devastated at the death of her ex-husband “Billy” Parker. After the funeral, she collapses and is admitted to the hospital.

Angels Battle in Boston

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan R. Ellenberger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Bette Davis ◽  
First Time

Hopkins goes to New York for rehearsals in Battle with Angels, a play by first-time playwright Tennessee Williams. The play, however, is a failure, and the experience erodes Hopkins’s self-confidence, professionally and personally. She is offered several films before finally accepting the lead in A Gentleman after Dark. Hopkins accepts a role opposite Bette Davis in Old Acquaintance, a part that will bring Davis no end of problems.

Reaching Their Majority

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan K. Rode
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Hotel Room ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Virginia City ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Secondary Role ◽  
Bette Davis ◽  
Sons Of Liberty

Curtiz was assigned to finishBlackwell’s Island.This was followed by his direction of Sons of Liberty, a patriotic short championed by the brothers Warner.The film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject, and Curtiz was given a $3,000 bonus from a grateful Jack Warner. Building on the original success of Four Daughters, he established a successful franchise with Daughters Courageous and Four Wives. Curtiz also beganhis relationship with the renowned cinematographer James Wong Howe, who would shoot four films for him. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essexwas a difficult production because of the dueling egos of Errol Flynn and Bette Davis and the dissatisfaction of Olivia de Havilland, whom Jack Warner deliberately cast in a secondary role to punish her.Curtiz made the picture beautifully, but it was a box-office disappointment. Curtiz also had to cope with a family calamity when his daughter Kitty cut her wrists in a Hollywood hotel room. He was also short of cash owing to his and Bess’s careless financial management. Borrowing money from Jack Warner, he got his mother and two of his brothers out of Hungary and resettled in Hollywood. After directing Virginia City, amid the outbreak of war in Europe, Curtiz prepared for an epic swashbuckler.

West Hollywood to Burbank

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan R. Ellenberger
Keyword(s):  
Academy Awards ◽  
Box Office ◽  
West Hollywood ◽  
Bette Davis ◽  
Anatole Litvak ◽  
The Right ◽  
Old Maid

Samuel Goldwyn loans Hopkins to Warner Bros. for a four-picture deal. Hopkins is slipping at the box office, so Anatole Litvak suggests that they cast her in their new property Dark Victory. But Bette Davis is assigned to the role and Hopkins hires a new agent, Charles Feldman, and battles with Warner Bros. over her parts, even offering to reduce her salary to be given better roles. Hopkins newfound liberal beliefs, a result of her marriage to Litvak, attract the FBI’s attentions. Litvak has a weekend affair with Bette Davis, Hopkins finds out, and threatens to divorce him and name Davis as correspondent. Jack Warner talks her out of it and searches for the right role for her, going back and forth on several projects, until finally they agree on The Old Maid, costarring . . . Bette Davis. Tests on the film continue until Academy Awards night, when Bette Davis receives the Best Actress Oscar for Jezebel; Hopkins reacts by trashing her own home.

Michael Curtiz

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan K. Rode
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Robin Hood ◽  
Michael Curtiz ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Bette Davis ◽  
Comprehensive Examination ◽  
Movie Star ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Noah's Ark

Michael Curtiz directed some of the greatest American films of the twentieth century but has been largely forgotten. He does not fitthe conventional definition of a cinematic auteur, and many of his pictures, including The Adventures of Robin Hood,Casablanca,Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, and White Christmas, left an enduring imprint on American popular culture. Curtiz remains the greatest film director that nobody every heard of. The heretofore unreported account of Curtiz’s early years in silent Hungarian cinema, which evolved into direction of distinguished European films, is juxtaposed against his Pygmalion-like marriage to the actress Lucy Doraine, whom he made into a movie star. His relationships with four different women that resulted in an equal number of out-of-wedlock children were aspects of a tumultuous personal life that always remained secondary to his filmmaking. His marital collaboration with the screenwriter Bess Meredyth proved integral to his ascent as the top director at Warner Bros. Highlights includerevelatory accounts of his alleged drowning of extras during Noah’s Ark (1928), the reputed abuse of horses in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1935), and his often tumultuous relationships with Jack Warner, Darryl Zanuck, Hal Wallis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Bette Davis,and others,whichare meticulously detailed, as well as a comprehensive examination of his vast résumé of 181films. Supported by scrupulous research and numerous interviews, Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film is the long-awaited biography that separates fact from fiction about Hollywood’s most prolifically accomplished director.

Conflict of international and regional strategies and the future of wars in the Arab region "Political stability or political chaos"

2019 ◽  
pp. 190
Author(s):  
Ahmed Fadel Jassim Dawood
Keyword(s):  
Political Stability ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
Regional Powers ◽  
Regional Strategies ◽  
Regional Competition ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Political Differences

The Arab region is of great importance as an important part of the Middle East for both international and regional powers.This importance has placed it and its peoples in the suffering of international and regional interventions and has placed it in a state of permanent instability as it witnessed international and regional competition that increased significantly after the US intervention in Iraq in 2003. Accordingly, the research aims to shed light on the strategic directions of the global and regional powers by knowing their objectives separately, such as American, Russian, Turkish, Israeli and Iranian. The course aims at determining the future of this region in terms of political stability and lack thereof. Therefore, the hypothesis of the research comes from [that the different strategic visions and political and economic interests between the international and regional powers have exacerbated the conflicts between those forces and their alliances within the Arab region.. The third deals with the future of the Arab region in light of the conflict of these strategies. Accordingly, the research reached a number of conclusions confirming the continuation of international and regional competition within the Arab region, as well as the continuation of the state of conflict, tension, instability and chaos in the near term, as a result of the inability of Arab countries to overcome their political differences on the one hand and also their inability to advance their Arab reality. In the face of external challenges on the other.

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