Anatole Litvak
Anatole Litvak Anatole Litvak born as Mikhail ( born May 10, 1902 in Kiev, † December 15, 1974 in Neuilly -sur -Seine near Paris) was a native of Ukraine filmmaker who wrote films in a variety of countries and languages , turned and produced.
Life
Initially Litvak, son worked a Jewish family, at a theater in Saint Petersburg. Besides his studies in philosophy, he also took acting classes. After the October Revolution he was a member of a theater company and turned in the St. Petersburg North Cinema Studios, today's Lenfilm Studios films since 1923. In 1925 he left the Soviet Union and went to Germany, where he was cut by GW Pabst's social drama took over The Joyless Street among others. 1927 Litvak was assistant director for the large-scale French costume drama Casanova. At the beginning of the sound film era, he successfully directed some comedies with Dolly Haas, before he emigrated to 1933. He then worked successfully in England and France, where in 1935 the film Mayerling staged, the, played by Charles Boyer and his lover, played by Danielle Darrieux, showed the dramatic last years of Crown Prince Rudolf. All three parties were given after the international success of invitations to Hollywood. Especially the work on Tovarich, the film adaptation of a Broadway hits with Claudette Colbert and Boyer in the lead roles, Litvak paved the way to a successful career. In 1938, he turned with Bette Davis melodrama Three sisters from Montana. The two came together again in 1940 at work to grave, where is thy victory, a dramatic love story between a governess and a baron, played by Charles Boyer. The film was a commercial success and brought the Litvak directed the adaptation of This Above All a, patriotic portrayal of a love story between Tyrone Power and Joan Fontaine. The highlight of his career he reached in 1948, when he led Barbara Stanwyck by the crime drama Sorry, Wrong Number to its fifth Oscar nomination. In the same year he turned - from the novel by Mary Jane Ward - The Snake Pit with a movie, the first cast a worried glance at the intolerable conditions in American mental hospitals. Olivia de Havilland played a young woman who ends up wrongly in Psychiatry and has to contend with electric shock treatments and sadistic guards.
Among the best known films of his later years was the film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea 1955 with Vivien Leigh and Anastasia, for which Ingrid Bergman won her second Oscar in 1956. With Bergman, he turned a few years later, you still you love Brahms? , Based on the novel Aimez -Vous Brahms? based Francoise Sagan. The later career of Litvak was unspectacular.
One of the wives of Litvak was the actress Miriam Hopkins.
For his services he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.