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HAWKS Howard
Date of birth : May 30, 1896, Goshen, Indiana.
Date of death : December 26, 1977, Palm Springs, California.
Profession movie director.
Portrait 
* 1930 : 715 Bedford Drive, Beverly Hills 
* 1940 : 1230 Benedict Canyon, Beverly Hills
* 1941 : 10 445 Bellaggio Road, Los Angeles
* 1953 : 1150 Moraga Drive, Los Angeles.
Story
His parents were Frank Winchester Hawkes (October 16, 1864, Indiana-December 15, 1950, Los Angeles)
(
) and Helen Brown (March 10, 1871, Wisconsin-August 27, 1952, Los Angeles).
His first movies were silent.
He began his director career in 1926, mixing the styles, comedy with action and drama with comedy.
On May 28, 1928 he married Athole Shearer (November 20, 1900, Montreal, Canada-March 17, 1985, Los
Angeles 
)(
), sister of the actress Norma Shearer.
She already had a son Peter John (July 31, 1924, New York-July 22, 1989, California), born from her marriage
with her first husband John Ward (
). He would later took the name of John Peter Ward Hawkes.
Together they had 2 children : David Howard (born October 9, 1929, Los Angeles 
) and Barbara Jane (born May 20, 1936, Los Angeles).
On Decemmber 10, 1941 he married Nancy "Slim" Gross (1^July 15, 1917, California-April 6, 1990, New York)
(
,
). They had a daughter Kitty Stephen (born February 11, 1946, New York)(
,
).
They divorced in 1949.
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".
).
On February 19, 1953, he married Donna Lee Higgins (April 21, 1928, Utah-October 21, 2018, California) an
actress known under the name of Dee Hartford (
,
)(
). They had a son Gregg (born October 22, 1954). They divorced on March 4, 1960.
In 1974
he received the Academy Award Lifetime Achievement.
He directed Marilyn in "Monkey Business" (1952) (
,
,
,
) and in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
(1953) (
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,
;
;
,
).
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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