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Curtis Bernhardt is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Allemand born on 15 april 1899 at Worms (German)
Curtis Bernhardt est un réalisateur américain d'origine allemande, né le 15 avril 1899 à Worms et mort le 22 février 1981 à Pacific Palisades (Californie).
Il est parfois crédité Kurt Bernhardt, son nom de naissance.
(1955)
(Director)
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Nationality German
Birth 15 april 1899 at Worms (German)
Death 22 february 1981 (at 81 years) at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 15 april 1899 at Worms (German)
Death 22 february 1981 (at 81 years) at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles (USA)
Il est parfois crédité Kurt Bernhardt, son nom de naissance.
Biography
Bernhardt naît dans une famille juive ashkénaze de Worms. Il doit quitter l'Allemagne en 1933, après l'arrivée au pouvoir du national-socialisme. Il travaille ensuite à Paris et en Angleterre avant de s'installer à Hollywood.Best films
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Kisses for My President (1964)
, 1h53Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Polly Bergen, Eli Wallach, Arlene Dahl, Edward Andrews, William Walker
Rating55%
The United States elects its first female President in the form of Leslie McCloud. She and her first gentleman, Thad, move into the White House with their daughter Gloria and son Peter.
Damon and Pythias (1962)
, 1h39Directed by Alberto Cardone, Curtis Bernhardt
Origin Italie
Genres Adventure, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films based on mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Guy Williams, Ilaria Occhini, Liana Orfei, Arnoldo Foà, Carlo Giustini, Enrico Glori
Rating50%
This script must be run from the command line
Gaby (1956)
, 1h36Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Leslie Caron, John Kerr, Cedric Hardwicke, Ruta Lee, Taina Elg, Margalo Gillmore
Rating60%
Gaby (Caron) is a ballet dancer in 1944 London who runs into corporal Gregory Wendell (Kerr) while rushing to catch the bus. Greg is mesmerized by Gaby and goes to the ballet to see her on stage, but Gaby wants nothing to do with Greg. He persists, and by the end of the day, she agrees to marry him.
Interrupted Melody (1955)
, 1h46Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway, Peter Leeds, Walter Baldwin
Rating66%
The story traces Marjorie's (Eleanor Parker) long, hard road to the top, her success on two continents, and her turbulent marriage to American doctor Thomas King (Glenn Ford). While touring South America in 1941, Lawrence is stricken with polio, which not only abruptly ends her career but briefly robs her of the will to live.
Beau Brummell (1954)
, 1h53Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Stewart Granger, Peter Ustinov, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Morley, James Donald, James Hayter
Rating63%
Au début du XIX siècle, à Londres, George, alias « Beau » Brummell, un jeune roturier devenu militaire, consacre toute son énergie à l'emporter sur ses rivaux mondains par l'élégance et par l'esprit. Il parvient ainsi à gagner l'amitié éblouie du régent, le prince de Galles, rejeton obèse, futile et despotique du roi fou George III. Désormais favori à la cour, il se demande aussi, entre deux choix cornéliens de cravate, s'il convient d'épouser sa maîtresse, l'ensorcelante Lady Patricia...
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
, 1h31Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray, Russell Collins, Charles Bronson, Diosa Costello
Rating58%
A bar girl from Hawaii, a religious zealot and a love-struck Marine struggle with sin and salvation just after World War II while Sadie Thompson kicks out several songs, including the Oscar-nominated "Blue Pacific Blues".
The Merry Widow (1952)
, 1h45Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Monde imaginaire, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel, Richard Haydn, Thomas Gomez, John Abbott
Rating57%
The young widow Crystal Radek is invited to Marshovia, a small European kingdom, to attend the unveiling of a statue in honour of her deceased husband. The royal coffers are seriously in need of her money so the king sends out count Danilo to seduce her.
The Blue Veil (1951)
, 1h53Directed by Busby Berkeley, Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson, Agnes Moorehead, Don Taylor
Rating71%
Following the death of her newborn baby, war widow LouLou Mason accepts a temporary two-week assignment as nursemaid to the infant son of corset manufacturer Frederick K. Begley, who lost his wife in childbirth. She ingratiates herself with the family and eventually becomes a permanent fixture. When she declines Frederick's proposal, he marries his secretary Alicia Torgersen, who fires LouLou following her honeymoon.
Payment on Demand (1951)
, 1h30Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Kent Taylor, Jane Cowl, Frances Dee, Betty Lynn
Rating68%
Sirocco (1951)
, 1h38Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Märta Torén, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane, Gerald Mohr, Zero Mostel
Rating61%
In 1925 Damascus, the Syrians are engaged in a guerrilla war against the French rule of Syria. Harry Smith (Humphrey Bogart) is an amoral American black marketeer secretly selling them weapons. As the situation deteriorates, French General LaSalle (Everett Sloane) orders that civilians be executed each time his soldiers are killed, but his head of military intelligence, Colonel Feroud (Lee J. Cobb), persuades him to rescind the plan. Feroud presses for negotiations with rebel leader Emir Hassan (Onslow Stevens) instead. LaSalle reluctantly lets him try to arrange a meeting, but refuses to let Feroud make contact directly. The young officer sent in his place is later found with his throat cut.
The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
, 1h38Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Glenn Ford, Charles Coburn, Gloria DeHaven, Janet Leigh, Bruce Bennett, Arthur Franz
Rating68%
Michael Corday comes from a family of physicians, and upon completing his own medical degree, he moves back to New York City and starts an internship at Bellevue Hospital.
Possessed (1947)
, 1h48Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, Moroni Olsen
Rating70%
A woman (Joan Crawford) is found wandering Los Angeles, unable to say anything other than "David". Admitted to a hospital, she is coaxed into recounting her life.
High Wall (1947)
, 1h39Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall, Dorothy Patrick, H. B. Warner, Warner Anderson
Rating68%
Steven Kenet catches his unfaithful wife in the apartment of Willard I. Whitcombe, her boss, and apparently strangles her. Believing he killed her, he attempts to commit suicide by driving his car into the river, even though they have a 6-year-old son. Kenet survives but is sent to the county psychiatric hospital for evaluation to determine if he is sane enough to be charged with murder. He has no memory of what happened, likely due to a pre-existing brain injury from the war.
Devotion (1946)
, 1h47Directed by Edward Chodorov, Robert Buckner, Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about writers, Films about families
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Nancy Coleman, John Arthur Kennedy
Rating65%
The story takes place in the early 1800s, when the Brontë sisters Charlotte and Anne have made the decision to leave their family - their sister Emily, their brother Branwell, their aunt and their vicar father - to take positions as governesses in other families. The two sisters long to break free from their tedious life and get experiences from the outside world, to prepare for their careers as writers.
My Reputation (1946)
, 1h34Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Eve Arden, Lucile Watson, Warner Anderson, Scotty Beckett
Rating69%
200px When her beloved husband dies after a long illness, Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is comforted by the executor of her husband's estate, lawyer Frank Everett (Warner Anderson), who's been a family friend for years and, later, shows an interest in dating "Jess". Her mother (Lucile Watson) has worn black for decades, since her husband passed, and would love for her daughter to follow her example. Jess has two young boys: Kim (Scotty Beckett), who is fourteen, and Keith (Bobby Cooper), who's twelve. Both go off to school leaving their newly widowed mother at home alone to deal with her loneliness. She tries to reconnect with the "old gang" that she and her husband socialized with while he was alive, but finds they remind her too much of him. She's even accosted by one of them, George Van Orman (Jerome Cowan), when he brings her home one night. Fortunately, she has a real friend in Ginna Abbott (Eve Arden), whom she runs to, and stays with, the night she was accosted. Ginna and her husband Cary (John Ridgely) invite Jess to spend a week's vacation at Lake Tahoe with them.