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HAWKS Howard Winchester
Date of birth : May 30th 1896, Goshen, Indiana.
Date of death : December 26th 1977, Palm Springs, California.
Practise : director.
Portrait :
Story
His first movies were silent.
He began his director career in 1926, mixing the styles, comedy with action and drama wuth comedy.
He directed
"Scarface"
(1932), " Twentieth Century" (1934), "Barabary Coast" (1935), "Bringing
Up Baby" (1938), "His Girl Friday" (1940), "The Big Sleep"
(1946), "Red River" (1948),"Rio Bravo" (1958).
For 30 years, he worked with the best people, trying to provoke presonal relationship between the actors he engaged, like Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in "The Big Sleep".
In 1974
he received the Academy Award Lifetime Achievment.
He directed Marilyn in "Monkey Business" (1952) (
,
,
) and in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
(1953) (
,
;
;
).
During the shooting of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", his exasperation confronted with Marilyn's repeated lateness, her nervous fragility and her dependency towards Natasha Lytess, was full. He banned the coach from the set but had to go back over his position, because Marilyn's lateness had no limit.
He finished the
movie and managed to obtain a natural interpretation form an extremely
tensed Marilyn. One of the reason of the success of the movie, maybe
was the fact he trusted the musical direction to Jack
Cole, with who hit it off.
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