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George Stevens
George Cooper Stevens was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for A Place in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956).
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Born 18 December 1904 · Died 8 March 1975 · Q51490
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
WABI-TV: George Stevens Academy boys soccer team is ready to challenge for state title
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WABI-TV: George Stevens Academy varsity baseball field named ‘Bill Gray ’83 Baseball Field’
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2024· 1 entry
Bangor Daily News: George Stevens boys soccer moves to 1st place with 5-2 win over Orono
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2011· 1 entry
Directors Guild of America: Giant: George Stevens, A Life on Film
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2008· 1 entry
Stevens's footage was selected for preservation in the U
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1984· 1 entry
And is the father of Stevens's grandson Michael Stevens (1966–2015), who was also a television and film producer-director
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1975· 2 entries
Died 1975-03-08.
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Stevens died of a heart attack on his ranch in Lancaster, California, north of Los Angeles, at the age of 70
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1974· 1 entry
Stated, "It was set in San Francisco, and I was a kid there during that period
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1973· 1 entry
Stevens was a member of the jury at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival
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1970· 2 entries
The competition was cancelled and no major prizes were awarded
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Stevens was appointed as the president of the jury at the 20th Berlin International Film Festival
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1968· 1 entry
Stevens read Frank Gilroy's script for The Only Game in Town, which he adapted from his own play
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1960· 2 entries
Including Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters
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Stevens collaborated with Ivan Moffat and James Lee Barrett on the script, and then hired Carl Sandburg to revise the script
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1958· 1 entry
While filming The Diary of Anne Frank, Stevens became aware that Fox held the screen rights to Fulton Oursler's 1949 novel The Greatest Story Ever Told
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for Giant (1957).
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1954· 3 entries
Ferber flew out to Los Angeles and volunteered to write unsalaried on the script adaptation
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Awarded Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for cinematographic trajectory (1954).
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Stevens learned that Twentieth Century-Fox had held the film rights to The Diary of Anne Frank
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for A Place in the Sun (1952).
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1951· 1 entry
For A Place in the Sun and in 1956 for Giant
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1949· 2 entries
On the Paramount backlot and then moved to Lake Tahoe, Nevada
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Paramount relented, and Stevens advanced the project into development, in which he hired Michael Wilson to write the script
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1945· 1 entry
And approached Paramount Pictures, which had produced a 1931 filmed version, about a new adaptation
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1944· 1 entry
Frank Capra approached Stevens to join his new independent production company, Liberty Films
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1943· 4 entries
Stevens was transferred to Iran (then known as Persia)
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Stevens's draft board explained he would be "sent by the Special Service Division of the War Department on a mission outside the continental limits of the United States for an indefinite period
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The More the Merrier was positively received by film critics
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For The More the Merrier, in 1954 for Shane, and in 1959 for The Diary of Anne Frank
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1941· 1 entry
The United States entered World War II, in which Stevens joined the U
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1940· 1 entry
Stevens signed a three-picture deal with Columbia
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1937· 1 entry
With Ginger Rogers and James Stewart, who had been loaned out from MGM
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1936· 1 entry
Edward Small had acquired the film rights for his independent studio, Reliance Pictures
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1934· 1 entry
Stevens returned to RKO to direct Bachelor Bait, which he filmed from April 30 to May 18
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1933· 1 entry
“In reading over a screenplay I constantly look for the little things of a story; small situations, common incidents, or places where the shrug of a shoulder properly done will give an audience a chance to laugh. For, despite the prolonged depression, everyone is still anxious to laugh.”
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1928· 1 entry
Met Yvonne Howell in Oliver Hardy's home; they were married on January 1, 1930
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1921· 1 entry
The family relocated once more to Glendale so Landers could pursue work in Hollywood
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1904· 2 entries
In Oakland, California, the son of Landers Stevens and Georgie Cooper, both stage actors
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Born 1904-12-18.
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