Name: George Stevens
Date of Birth: Grandfather of Michael Stevens Father of director George Stevens Jr.. Son of actor Landers Stevens. Interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Morning Light section, Space 3, Plot #8034. Son of actress Georgie Cooper. Grandson of actress Georgia Woodthorpe. Brother of cameraman Jack Stevens. President of the Screen Directors Guild. [1941-1943] President of the Screen Directors Guild. [1946-1948] Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 1051-1057. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. ... He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 1709 Vine St. Same birthday as Casper Van Dien who played James Dean in a film with Robert Mitchum as George Stevens. Is portrayed by Craig Barnett in James Dean (2001) (TV), by Robert Mitchum in _James Dean: Race with Destiny (1997)_ and by Eugene Roche in Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995) (TV) Directed 16 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Coburn, Jean Arthur, Oskar Homolka, Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Ellen Corby, Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Brandon De Wilde, Jack Palance, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Mercedes McCambridge and Ed Wynn. Only Coburn and Winters won Oscars for their performances in one of Stevens' movies. Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1957 President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1958 to 1959 Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1970 Won the Oscar for Best Director twice - for A Place in the Sun (1951) and for Giant (1956). Neither film won Best Picture, and both starred Elizabeth Taylor. As a cinematographer at Hal Roach Studios, he is credited with saving the film career of young British comic Stan Laurel. Laurel's pale blue eyes would register as an unnatural white on orthochromatic film, the standard film in use at that time. Stevens knew of panchromatic film and was able to get a supply of it from Chicago. This film was sensitive to blue so that Laurel's eyes would photograph more naturally. Laurel would use Stevens for his short films at Roach. When Stan Laurel was teamed up with Oliver Hardy, the team make Stevens their cameraman of choice. Read more George Stevens movies (director)
The Only Game in Town [No links available]
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Das einzige Spiel in der Stadt
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I Remember Mama [No links available]
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A Vida de um Sonho
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