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...then engaged in smuggling slaves out of the South. On this peg is hung a moving and tragic theme: that these friends, fighting side by side, are innocently feeding a flame which will soon surround them, find them enemies in an irrepressible conflict. With the help of Director Michael Curtiz' well-tempered direction and Massey's passionate interpretation of Zealot Brown. Santa Fe Trail, in spite of its hackneyed romance, becomes a brilliant and grim account of the Civil War background...
Ever since Michael Curtiz landed in Manhattan on the Fourth of July, 1928, and pretended that he thought the fireworks were in honor of his arrival, he has been a natural for joshing Warner press-agentry. Everyone in Hollywood knows that the first thing he did when he got there was to buy a Packard which he kept bringing back to the shop until a curious mechanic found that he never shifted the gears beyond second. Son of an architect, graduate of Budapest's Royal Academy of Theatre and Art, a famed European director when the Warners tapped...
...Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz, who took Flynn from bit-player ranks to make Captain Blood and has made nine pictures with him since, it should prove a high point in their profitable relationship...
Warner jokers once hung signs on a Curtiz set reading "English Broken Here," "Curtiz Spoken Here." Some Curtizisms: "Next time I send some fool for something I go myself," "Sit a little bit more femine (feminine)," "Act easy-go-lucky." Prop boys on a Curtiz set are supposed to know that "boy cows" are not steers but cow boys. Malapropism is not Curtiz' only peculiarity. He addresses everyone at Warner's up to Bette Davis as "you bum," gives the best borscht bawlings-out in the business. He takes no lunch, tried to coax actors to have...
...Fund, Midwick and Hollywood met socially with a slight hiss of conversation. For a week before the game local society and sporting pages had been ballyhooing the event. The Producers team would consist of Walter Wanger, a hard-working non-scorer; Frank Borzage of long low-goal experience; Mike Curtiz, who took "ill" at the last moment, had Oil Man Steen Fletcher sub for him; and eight-goaler Aidan Roark, Zanuck's assistant at polo and pictures. The Actors would be spirited novice Paul Kelly, Charles Farrell, Tim Holt (son of he-man Jack) and comic Guinn...