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Howard Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. The critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name." Roger Ebert called Hawks "one of the greatest American directors of pure movies, and a hero of auteur critics because he found his own laconic values in so many different kinds of genre mat…
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entertainment · American film director (1896–1977) · screenwriter · film producer · film director · actor · aircraft pilot · film editor · director · writer · producer · film screenwriter · also Howard Hawks, Howard Winchester Hawks, Hawks
Born 30 May 1896 · Died 26 December 1977 · Q51581
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We just did it because the girl was so damn good-looking. It taught me a great lesson, that if you make a good scene, if we could do something that was fun, the audience goes right along with you.
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2026· 3 entries
“We just did it because the girl was so damn good-looking. It taught me a great lesson, that if you make a good scene, if we could do something that was fun, the audience goes right along with you.”
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“We had trouble with Kate at first. The great trouble is people trying to be funny. If they don”
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2007· 1 entry
Total Film magazine ranked Hawks as No
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1996· 1 entry
Howard Hawks was voted No
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1977· 2 entries
At the age of 81, from complications arising from a fall when he tripped over his dog at his home in Palm Springs, California
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Died 1977-12-26.
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award presented by cinematographic trajectory (1975).
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1966· 1 entry
Hawks directed El Dorado, starring Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and Caan, which was released the following year
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1965· 1 entry
Featuring a young James Caan in his first leading role
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1964· 1 entry
Hawks made his final comedy, Man's Favorite Sport
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1962· 1 entry
Peter Bogdanovich suggested that the Museum of Modern Art do a retrospective on Howard Hawks, who was in the process of releasing Hatari
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1959· 1 entry
Hawks worked with John Wayne in Rio Bravo, also starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as four lawmen "defending the fort" of their local jail in which a local criminal is awaiting a trial while his family
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1955· 1 entry
Hawks made Land of the Pharaohs, a sword-and-sandal epic about ancient Egypt that stars Jack Hawkins and Joan Collins
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1953· 1 entry
Hawks made Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which famously featured Marilyn Monroe singing "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"
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1952· 1 entry
Hawks worked with Grant for the fifth and final time in the screwball comedy Monkey Business, which also starred Marilyn Monroe and Ginger Rogers
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1951· 1 entry
Hawks produced, and according to some, directed, a science-fiction film, The Thing from Another World
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1949· 2 entries
The Big Sky in 1953, and Rio Bravo in 1960
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Hawks reteamed with Grant in the screwball comedy I Was a Male War Bride, also starring Ann Sheridan
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1948· 1 entry
Hawks made Red River, an epic Western reminiscent of Mutiny on the Bounty starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in his first film
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1945· 1 entry
And 1946 with The Big Sleep, based on the Philip Marlowe detective novel by Raymond Chandler
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1942· 1 entry
For Sergeant York, but he received his only Oscar in 1974 as an Honorary Award from the academy
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1941· 2 entries
Hawks began work on the Howard Hughes-produced (and later directed) film The Outlaw, based on the life of Billy the Kid and starring Jane Russell
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Hawks made Sergeant York, starring Gary Cooper as a pacifist farmer who becomes a decorated World War I soldier
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1939· 1 entry
For Columbia Pictures and starring Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell, Rita Hayworth and Richard Barthelmess
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1938· 1 entry
Hawks made the screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby for RKO Pictures
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1936· 2 entries
Made the aviation adventure Ceiling Zero with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien
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Hawks began filming Come and Get It, starring Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer and Walter Brennan, but he was fired by Samuel Goldwyn in the middle of shooting, and the film was completed by William Wyler
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1935· 1 entry
Hawks made Barbary Coast with Edward G
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1934· 1 entry
Hawks went to Columbia Pictures to make Twentieth Century, starring John Barrymore and Hawks' distant cousin Carole Lombard
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1933· 1 entry
Hawks signed a three-picture deal at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, the first of which was Today We Live in 1933
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1932· 2 entries
Directed Tiger Shark, starring Edward G
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After such other pivotal early gangster films as The Public Enemy and Little Caesar
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1930· 1 entry
Hughes hired Hawks to direct Scarface, a gangster film loosely based on the life of Chicago mobster Al Capone
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1928· 2 entries
Charles Lindbergh was the world's most famous person and Wings was one of the most popular films of the year
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Howard Hawks was married three times: to actress Athole Shearer, sister of Norma Shearer, from 1928 to 1940; to socialite and fashion icon Slim Keith from 1941 to 1949; and to actress Dee Hartford from 1953 to 1959.
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1926· 1 entry
And Joseph von Sternberg's Underworld in 1927, famous for being one of the first gangster films
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1925· 1 entry
When Thalberg hesitated to keep his promise, Hawks broke his contract at MGM and left
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1923· 2 entries
Famous Players–Lasky president Jesse Lasky was looking for a new Production Editor in the story department of his studio, and Thalberg suggested Hawks
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By which time Hawks had decided that he wanted to direct rather than produce
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1919· 1 entry
And the two of them moved to Hollywood together to pursue their careers
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1916· 1 entry
Hawks met Victor Fleming, a Hollywood cinematographer who had been an auto mechanic and early aviator
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1914· 1 entry
Hawks returned to Glendora and graduated from Pasadena High School that year
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1912· 1 entry
The Hawks family moved to nearby Glendora, California, where Frank Hawks owned orange groves
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1911· 1 entry
Hawks' youngest sibling, Helen, died suddenly of food poisoning
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1898· 1 entry
The family moved back to Neenah where Frank Hawks began working for his father-in-law's Howard Paper Company
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-05-30.
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