Film director
Michael Curtiz was born in
1886 in
Budapest,
Hungary (then
Austria-Hungary) and died in
1962 in
Hollywood. In
1912 he began his acting and directing career as
Mihály Kertész in Hungary (43 films) and, after
World War I, continued his work (another 21 titles) first in
Vienna,
Austria (e.g. with the monumental
1922 silent film Sodom and Gomorrha[?]) and then in
Germany.
In 1926 Curtiz emigrated to the United States. The interesting thing about his Hollywood career is that he did not specialize in any one genre. His lifelong struggle with the English language has been confirmed in numerous anecdotes.
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