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Bessie Love (sister-in-law) [1] Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name." [2]
Howard Hawks (1896–1977) was an American film director who made 40 films between 1926 and 1970. He is responsible for classic films in genres ranging from film noir, screwball comedy, crime, science fiction, and Western.
YearTitleStudioGenre1926Drama1926Comedy1927Comedy1927ComedyAside from their displays of great craftsmanship, the answer is director Howard Hawks, one of the most celebrated of American filmmakers, who ironically, was little celebrated by his peers in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences during his career.
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May 26, 2024 · Howard Hawks, American motion-picture director who maintained a consistent personal style within the framework of traditional film genres in work that ranged from the 1920s to the ’70s. His movies included Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, To Have and Have Not, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Rio Bravo.
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- Scarface (1932) Lookit! They got machine-guns you can carry!” The quintessential pre-code prototype for the gangster movie: past, present and future. A rise-and-fall narrative that flips the bird at a studio-mandated title card disavowing a misread amorality.
- Twentieth Century (1934) I never thought I should sink so low as to become an actor.” It may not be the most quicksilver (His Girl Friday?) or the most subversive (Monkey Business?)
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939) Who’s Joe?” Death is a cloud that hangs low and heavy over the mountain outpost of Hawks’s 1939 masterpiece; an impregnable fog that chokes its peaks, its merciless claims defiantly answered with second-hand steaks and glasses raised to the strains of an old joanna.
- To Have and Have Not (1944) Was you ever bit by a dead bee?” “I can make a movie out of the worst thing you ever wrote,” said Hawks to Ernest Hemingway, who offered up To Have and Have Not for $10,000.
A user-created list of 25 films directed by Howard Hawks, an influential American filmmaker of the classical Hollywood era. The list ranks the films from best to worst based on personal preference and includes ratings, summaries, and cast information.
Aug 30, 2019 · Directed by Howard Hawks, Henry Koster, Henry Hathaway, Jean Negulesco and Henry King, 1952
