Curtis Bernhardt is one more of the people the industry actually runs on, a German director with a filmography built off camera. The work is split between film and television rather than confined to either. The record opens, for most readers, with 'Possessed'. The list also holds 'Conflict'. The early work was done without much attention on it.
Curtis Bernhardt
81 years (Apr 15, 1899 – Feb 22, 1981)Worms, Germany
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Curtis Bernhardt is one more of the people the industry actually runs on, a German director with a filmography built off camera. The work is split between film and television rather than confined to either. The record opens, for most readers, with 'Possessed'. The list also holds 'Conflict'. The early work was done without much attention on it.
Curtis Bernhardt (Kurt Bernhardt) (15 April 1899 – 22 February 1981) was a German film director born in Worms, Germany. Some of his American films were called "woman's films" including the Joan Crawford film Possessed (1947). Bernhardt trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film director in 1926. Other films include A Stolen Life (1946) starring Bette Davis and Sirocco (1951) starringHumphrey Bogart. Bernhardt directed films in France and England before moving on to Hollywood to work for Warner Brothers in 1940. Bernhardt produced and directed his last Hollywood picture Kisses for My President (1964) about the nation's first female Chief Executive starring Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray.Curtis Bernhardt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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