Curtis Bernhardt

Highest Rated: 89% Possessed (1947)

Lowest Rated: 89% Possessed (1947)

Birthday: Apr 15, 1899

Birthplace: Worms, Germany

Some praised the American films of German director Curtis Bernhardt as "women's pictures"; others derided them as "weepers." Trained for an acting career at Frankfurt-am-Main's State School for Dramatic Arts, Bernhardt was a theatrical performer and producer in Berlin before turning to directing films with 1926's Die Was von Lowood, a Gernan version of Jane Eyre. In 1929, he helmed UFA studio's first talking picture, Die Letzte Kompagnie. Exiting Germany when Hitler came to power, Bernhardt directed films in France and England before being signed by Hollywood's Warner Bros. in 1940. Among the formidable female stars with which Bernhardt was associated during his Warners years were Miriam Hopkins (The Lady With Red Hair, 1940), Olivia de Havilland and Ida Lupino (Devotion, 1946), Barbara Stanwyck (My Reputation, 1946), Bette Davis (A Stolen Life, 1946) and Joan Crawford (Possessed). In the 1950s, Bernhardt directed Jane Wyman in The Blue Veil (1952), Rita Hayworth in Columbia's Miss Sadie Thompson (1954) and Lana Turner in MGM's The Merry Widow (1955). After a brief flurry of filmmaking in Europe in the early 1960s, Curtis Bernhardt produced and directed one last Hollywood picture in 1964: Kisses for My President, a Polly Bergen/Fred MacMurray vehicle all about the nation's first female Chief Executive.

Highest Rated Movies

Possessed
89%

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
No Score Yet	Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt (Three Loves)	Director	—	2010
No Score Yet	Kisses For My President	Director Producer	—	1964
No Score Yet	Damon and Pythias	Screenwriter Director	—	1962
No Score Yet	Interrupted Melody	Director	—	1955
No Score Yet	Beau Brummell	Director	—	1954
No Score Yet	Miss Sadie Thompson	Director	—	1953
No Score Yet	The Merry Widow	Director	—	1952
No Score Yet	The Blue Veil	Director	—	1951
No Score Yet	Sirocco	Director	—	1951
No Score Yet	Payment on Demand	Screenwriter Director	—	1951
No Score Yet	The Doctor and the Girl	Director	—	1949
No Score Yet	High Wall	Director	—	1947
89%	Possessed	Director	—	1947
No Score Yet	A Stolen Life	Director	—	1946
No Score Yet	Devotion	Director	—	1946
No Score Yet	My Reputation	Director	—	1946
No Score Yet	Conflict	Director	—	1945
No Score Yet	Juke Girl	Director	—	1942
No Score Yet	Million Dollar Baby	Director	—	1941
No Score Yet	Lady with Red Hair	Director	—	1940
No Score Yet	My Love Came Back	Director	—	1940
No Score Yet	Der Mann, Der Den Mord Beging	Director	—	1931
No Score Yet	Woman Men Yearn For	Director	—	1929

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