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1. White Christmas (1954)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger
White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A veritable warehouse full ... More
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2. Casablanca (1943)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre
One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard ... More
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3. Life With Father (1947)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring William Powell, Irene Dunne, Monte Blue, ZaSu Pitts, Clara Blandick, Johnny Calkins, Emma Dunn, Edmund Gwenn, Elizabeth Taylor
The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947. William Powell is a tower ... More
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4. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Donald Crisp, Nigel Bruce
Of the many film versions of Alfred Lord Tennyson's narrative poem, 1936's Charge of the Light Brigade has the least relationship to the facts ... More
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5. The Comancheros (1961)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Lee Marvin
Michael Curtiz's The Comancheros was a deceptively complex movie -- so enjoyable, that it masked some of the best character development seen in a ... More
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6. King Creole (1958)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger
Elvis Presley delivers one of his finest early performances in King Creole. Elvis plays a teenager named Danny Fisher, who is forced to drop out of ... More
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7. Francis of Assisi (1961)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman, Pedro Armendáriz, Cecil Kellaway
This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious drama on the life of St ... More
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8. Santa Fe Trail (1940)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a simplistic retelling of the ... More
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9. Trouble Along the Way (1953)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn, Tom Tully, Sherry Jackson
"Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing." These words were spoken not by Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi but by Steve Williams, the ... More
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10. Night and Day (1946)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Cary Grant, John Alvin, Alexis Smith, Eve Arden, Herman Bing, Monty Woolley, Jane Wyman, Paul Cavanagh, Dorothy Malone, Tom D'Andrea
Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole Porter, one Hollywood ... More
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11. This Is the Army (1943)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring George Murphy, Joan Leslie, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, George Tobias, Charles Butterworth, Julie Oshins
The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was a reworking of Berlin's ... More
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12. Jim Thorpe - All American (1951)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran, Phyllis Thaxter, Dick Wesson
Burt Lancaster stars as Jim Thorpe, the Native American sports whiz whom many consider the greatest athlete of the 20th century. We first see Thorpe ... More
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13. Four Daughters (1938)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Claude Rains, May Robson, Priscilla Lane, Lola Lane, Rosemary Lane
Fannie Hurst's Sister Act was the source for this money-making Warners weeper. The four daughters of the title are played by the Lane Sisters- ... More
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14. Mildred Pierce (1945)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth
Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M. Cain novel concerns a ... More
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15. Captains of the Clouds (1942)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale, George Tobias
James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays Brian MacLean, a ... More
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16. The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan, Helen Vinson
Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his fourth screen appearance ... More
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17. The Proud Rebel (1958)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Dean Jagger, David Ladd, Cecil Kellaway
A gentler but no less resourceful Alan Ladd stars in The Proud Rebel. Ladd is cast as civil war veteran John Chandler, while the star's son David ... More
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18. The Sea Hawk (1940)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp
In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf the British crown -- ... More
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19. The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson, Gene Evans, Alan King
Ann Blyth plays famed "torch singer" Helen Morgan, from her humble beginnings as a carnival dancer to the height of her nightclub fame in the 1920s. ... More
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20. The Hangman (1959)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Robert Taylor, Fess Parker, Jack Lord, Gene Evans
The Hangman is a stock western with a thin plot and cardboard characters, about a rigid, U.S. Marshal. Mackenzie Bovard (Robert Taylor) takes his job ... More
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21. Young Man With a Horn (1950)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez
The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk Douglas plays the ... More
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22. Bright Leaf (1950)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Jack Carson, Patricia Neal, Donald Crisp
Bright Leaf, a sprawling saga of the tobacco industry in North Carolina, began as a novel by Foster Fitzsimmons, a native Carolinian who for many ... More
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23. The Jazz Singer (1953)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, Mildred Dunnock, Eduard Franz, Tom Tully
This second screen adaptation of the Samson Rafaelson play The Jazz Singer is better than the first, though not as historically important (the early ... More
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24. I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Doris Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy, Patrice Wymore, James Gleason
The ultra-sentimental I'll See You in My Dreams is based on the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. The story is told from the point of view of Kahn' ... More
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25. British Agent (1934)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Leslie Howard, Kay Francis, William Gargan, Phillip Reed, Irving Pichel
British Agent starred the Hungarian/British actor Leslie Howard in the title role, was directed by full-fledged Hungarian Michael Curtiz, and ... More
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