Howard Hawks circa 1939 color added 2015
by David Lee Guss
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Howard Hawks circa 1939 color added 2015
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 - December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him 'the greatest American director who is not a household name.'
Hawks was a versatile director whose career included comedies, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, and westerns. His own functional definition of what constitutes a 'good movie' is characteristic of his no-nonsense style: 'Three great scenes, no bad ones.' Hawks also defined a good director as 'someone who doesn't annoy you.' His most popular films include Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), The Thing from Another World (1951), Monkey Business (1952), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and Rio Bravo (1959). His frequent portrayals of strong, tough-talking female characters came to define a type 'the Hawksian woman.'
In 1942, Hawks was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York, and in 1975 he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award as 'a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema.' His work has influenced some of the most popular and respected directors such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, John Carpenter, and Quentin Tarantino."
"After making the World War II film Air Force in 1943 starring John Garfield, Hawks did two films with real-life lovers Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. To Have and Have Not, made in 1944, stars Bogart, Bacall and Walter Brennan and is based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. Hawks was a close friend of Hemingway and made a bet with the author that he could make a good film out of Hemingway's 'worst book.' Hawks, William Faulkner and Jules Furthman collaborated on the script about an American fishing boat captain working out of French Martinique in the Caribbean and various situations of espionage after the Fall of France in 1940."
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