Howard Hawks

...and it was a cover shot for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar in 1943 that first got her noticed. The cover was spotted by Howard Hawks' remarkable socialite wife Nancy, who saw potential in Bacall's elegant presence and persuaded her...

In this article: Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Oscar, Cancer, How to Marry a Millionaire, To Have and Have Not, and Juliette Binoche

...1944's To Have and Have Not, when she was just 19 and he was 44. At first, she said "it didn't thrill me" when director Howard Hawks said Bogart was her co-star. "If he'd said maybe Cary Grant, I'd have said, 'Well …Now you're talking!' "...

In this article: Roger Corman, Academy Awards, Lauren Bacall, Gordon Willis, Ron Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Jeff Bridges, Quentin Tarantino, The Godfather, and Inglourious Basterds

...expressions: looking left, looking right, and looking straight ahead. " (The quality of his performances working with directors like Howard Hawks and Fred Zinnemann contradict his humble assertion.) To another reporter, he showed his blunt,...

In this article: Robert Mitchum, Max Cady, Sean Connery, and Robert Young

...York" is widely considered a classic American film. Among its writers were John Huston and Stanley Koch; it was directed by Howard Hawks. Among the supporting cast were Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Noah Beery Jr., June Lockhart and Howard...

In this article: Alvin York, Gary Cooper, Academy Awards, Alvin C. York, Sergeant York, World War I, and Tennessee

...did for space, John Carpenter's The Thing did for Antarctica. One of the greatest remakes ever made, this dared to tread on the Howard Hawkes classic The Thing From Another World and made a far superior film that still holds up today.

In this article: Alien, Disney, Hollywood, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Space, B movie, Heroes, Alien series, and James Cameron

...like people on a self-imposed diet who can't resist just a sliver of dessert, the UCLA series inserted a few classics into the mix. Howard Hawks' uber-masculine "Only Angels Have Wings" is on the program, which should make dedicated...

In this article: Carole Lombard, Hollywood, UCLA, Gone with the Wind, Idiot's Delight, The Wizard of Oz, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Deanna Durbin, and Scarlett

...was that he made many different kinds of movies, rather than being identified with one genre as were Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks and other favourites of "auteur critics." But the more Sragow examined the evidence, the more he...

In this article: Victor Fleming, MGM, Gone with the Wind, Clark Gable, Rhett Butler, Oscar, Hollywood, The Wizard of Oz, and Vivien Leigh

Grand Illusion, 1403 N.E. 50th St., Seattle; 206-523-3935 or www.grandillusioncinema.org. Metro Classics continues this week with Howard Hawks' 1959 Western "Rio Bravo," starring John Wayne, Walter Brennan, and Rat Packers Dean Martin and...

In this article: Seattle, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Rio Bravo, The Grand Illusion, Halloween, Cops, and Icons

...sharp and displays his wicked sense of humor. Back story: The first movie Montgomery Clift made (but second released) was Howard Hawks' all-time Western Red River. In the interim, director Fred Zinnemann stole some thunder by showcasing...

In this article: DVD, Montgomery Clift, Muhammad Ali, Blu-ray, Mira Nair, Monsoon Wedding, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Stephen Frears, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Michael Bay

...a strong attraction to both building planes and making movies. In retrospect, it makes perfect sense that such directors as Howard Hawks and William Wellman were flyers in World War I. The difference between flight crew and film crew was...

In this article: James Stewart, Robert Redford, World War I, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Wings, Hollywood, Cary Grant, and The Aviator