The Life and Times of John Garfield / Four Daughters / USA 1938
One of the most highly regarded films in the Hollywood career of John Garfield is, in fact, his debut, which launched a productive collaboration with directing legend of Hungarian origin, Michael Curtiz (Casablanca). The breezy, joyful atmosphere in the home of music professor Adam Lemp (Claude Rains) and his four talented, musical daughters shifts towards stirring realism with the unexpected arrival of embittered, young Mickey Borden, long-time buddy of one of the girls’ suitors. The likeable outsider with his sarcastic vision of the world, shrouded in a darkly romantic cloud, is the first of Garfield’s irresistible “rebels with a cause”, whom fate didn’t deal an enviable hand. The film earned five Academy Award nominations, one of which went to novice John Garfield.
Karel Och
90 min / Black & white, 35 mm
Director Michael Curtiz
/ Screenplay Julius J. Epstein, Lenore J. Coffee
/ Dir. of Photography Ernest Haller
/ Music Max Steiner
/ Sound Stanley Jones
/ Editor Ralph Dawson
/ Art Director John Hughes
/ Producer Hal B. Wallis
/ Production First National Pictures
/ Cast Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield, Frank McHugh, May Robson, Gale Page
/ Sales Park Circus Group
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Michael Curtiz (1886, Budapest – 1962, Los Angeles). Selected filmography: Queen of Sin and the Spectacle of Sodom and Gomorrah (1922), 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Casablanca (1942), Night and Day (1946), The Breaking Point (1950), We’re No Angels (1955).
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