HUSTON John
John Marcellus Huston.
Date of birth : August 5, 1906, Nevada, Missouri.
Date of death : August 28, 1987, Middletown, Rhode Island.
Addresses
* 1926 : 675 Marview Avenue, Los Angeles
* 1930 : 20 Lafayette Street, New York
* 1939-1940 : 2211 Maravilla Drive, Los Angeles
* 1950 : 1215 Alta Loma, Beverly Hills
Profession movie director.
Story
Many of his movies were selected for the Academy Awards.
His first movie
"The Maltese Falcon" (1941), immediately well received, was the
beginning of a fruitful collaboration with Humphrey Bogart : "The
Treasure of the Sierra
Madre" (1947),"Key Largo" (1948), "The African Queen" (1952).
His other movies :"The Roots of Heaven" (1958), "The Unforgiven"(1959), "Freud"
(1962) "The Night of The Iguana" (1964), "The Man Who Would Be King" (1975), "Prizzi's Honor" (1985).
December 31, 1948, he attended the New Year's Eve party at producer Sam Spiegel's house ,
He proposed his first part to Marilyn in 1950 in "The Asphalt Jungle". In
1949 he had suggested her for "We Were Strangers" but the Columbia had refusesd to pay a screen-test.
Despite his reputation of hard director, Marilyn brought pleasant memories about the shooting of "The Asphalt Jungle", compared with other shootings. She considered him as a genius and appreciated the way he directed
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He appeared on the list established in 1955 of the directors with who she agreed to work with, but they only met again in 1960.
The project of "The Misfits" had difficulties, notably the stormy separation of Marilyn and Arthur Miller, the
tensions between Miller and Huston, the 10 days hospitalization of
Marilyn for nervous breakdown, the significant cost overrun, the
endless changes demanded by Huston and Marilyn, the oppressive heat
prevailing on the set, in the desert, and the many dangerous scenes
causing injuries to the stuntmen and the stand-ins (let alone the
tribute payed by Clark Gable who did his own stunts and died from a
heart attack less than 2 weeks after the end of the shooting).
Shooting
with Arthur Miller
with Marilyn
with Montgomery Clift
casino
party for Huston's birthday, on August 5, 1960
alone
Several biographies about Marilyn declare that the threats that were overhanging the movie depended more on Huston's propensity to smoke, drink and gamble that Marilyn's one to swallow sedatives.
He often stayed near the game tables until 5.00 AM, loosing up to 20 0000$ in a night.
Even after the difficult experience of "The Misfits", he had thought to bring together again Marilyn and Montgomery Clift in a a movie that would recount Freud's life (a movie which actually was made in 1962). Upon her analyst's advice, Marilyn refused.
He was the narrator in the documentary released in 1966 "The Legend of Marilyn Monroe".Bibliography