Screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Burton Wohl, story by Wohl. Image Credit: Malabar/Cinema Center/Kobal/REX/Shutterstockĭirected by Howard Hawks. Walter Brennan won the first of three Best Supporting Actor Oscars playing a sweet-natured Swede. Frances Farmer give the performance of a lifetime in a dual role as the showgirl Arnold abandons and the woman’s daughter, who he falls in love with.
The result is a fine adaptation of Edna Ferber’s multigenerational novel about an ambitious lumber baron (Edward Arnold) who marries for wealth and lives to regret it. Though both men share directorial credit, Wyler never counted it among his own filmography, attributing it almost completely to Hawks.
Hawks was fired before editing was completed on “Come and Get It” by producer Samuel Goldwyn, who brought in frequent collaborator William Wyler to reshoot its last third. Starring Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan. Screenplay by Jane Murfin and Jules Furthman, based on the novel by Edna Ferber. Image Credit: Glasshouse Images/REX/Shutterstockĭirected by Howard Hawks and William Wyler. Tour our photo gallery of Hawks’ 20 greatest films, including some of the titles listed above, as well as “Twentieth Century,” “The Thing from Another World,” “Ball of Fire” and more. Additionally, Hawks competed at the DGA for “Red River,” “The Big Sky” and “Rio Bravo.” He received an Honorary Oscar for his career in 1975. Surprisingly, his only Oscar nomination as Best Director came for “Sergeant York” (he lost to rival and friend John Ford for “How Green Was My Valley”).
He proved himself to be a versatile talent, adapting his direct, fast-paced style to a variety of genres, including comedies (“Bringing Up Baby,” “His Girl Friday”), westerns (“Red River,” Rio Bravo”), film noir (“The Big Sleep,” “To Have and Have Not”), adventures (“Only Angels Have Wings”), gangster epics (“Scarface”) and war dramas (“Sergeant York,” “Air Force”).Īlthough Hawks often explored the codes of masculinity in films starring Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne and Cary Grant, he was noted for his strong-willed, fast talking female characters, coined the “Hawksian woman.” The battle of the sexes was never more evenhanded than it was in one of his films, thanks to the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Lauren Bacall and others. But how many of his titles have remained classics? Let’s take a look back at 20 of Hawks’ greatest films, ranked worst to best.īorn in 1896, Hawks had a background in engineering and aviation before turning to filmmaking during the silent era. Local actors are proving consistently eager to tackle the challenge and the fun of these classic works.Howard Hawks was the Oscar-nominated director who has become a favorite among cinephiles, praised as a master of genre entertainments.
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Often the purview only of professional theatres, eastern Iowa has been seeing a flurry of community theatre Shakespeare productions recently, including Theatre Cedar Rapids’ lauded recent production of Hamlet. The play is helmed by Director Grant Freeman. Twelfth Night is MVLCT’s first foray into the works of Shakespeare. The beloved play first appeared in print in Shakespeare’s 1623 First Folio, which will be making its own appearance at the University of Iowa libraries later this year. William Shakespeare’s early 1600s madcap comedy kicks off on Thursday, July 21 at the Uptown Theatre in the First Street Community Center (221 1st St., Mt. Mistaken identities, separated twins, cross-dressing and crossed garters will cross the stage this weekend in Twelfth Night, Or What You Will at Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Theatre. Pictured, L-R: John Zbanek Hill (Malvolio) & Nikki Scheel (Olivia) - photo by Grant Freeman Uptown Theatre - opens Thursday, July 21 at 7:30 p.m.
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