George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)
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- 1h 50min
- Documentary, Biography
- 03 May 1985 (USA)
- Movie
Biography of the Academy Award winning director including dramatic color footage of WWII.
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Awards:
- 2 wins & 2 nominations.
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| Warren Beatty | ... |
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| Pandro S. Berman | ... |
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| Frank Capra | ... |
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| Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | ... |
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| Katharine Hepburn | ... |
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| John Huston | ... |
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| Rouben Mamoulian | ... |
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| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | ... |
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| Joel McCrea | ... |
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Ivan Moffat | ... |
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| Alan J. Pakula | ... |
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| Hermes Pan | ... |
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| Millie Perkins | ... |
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| Hal Roach | ... |
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| Ginger Rogers | ... |
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| Irwin Shaw | ... |
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Jack Sher | ... |
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Yvonne Howell | ... |
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Antonio Vellani | ... |
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| Max von Sydow | ... |
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| Fred Zinnemann | ... |
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| George Stevens Jr. | ... |
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| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Jean Arthur | ... |
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| Montgomery Clift | ... |
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| James Dean | ... |
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| Cary Grant | ... |
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| Rock Hudson | ... |
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| Sam Jaffe | ... |
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| Alan Ladd | ... |
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| Fred MacMurray | ... |
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| Jack Palance | ... |
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| George Stevens | ... |
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| Elizabeth Taylor | ... |
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| Spencer Tracy | ... |
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| Shelley Winters | ... |
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| Charles Coburn | ... |
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| Brandon De Wilde | ... |
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| Joan Fontaine | ... |
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| Oliver Hardy | ... |
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| Van Heflin | ... |
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| Adolf Hitler | ... |
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| Stan Laurel | ... |
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| Hattie McDaniel | ... |
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| Victor McLaglen | ... |
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Directed by
| George Stevens Jr. | ||
Written by
| George Stevens Jr. | ... | (written by) |
Produced by
| George Stevens Jr. | ... | producer |
| Antonio Vellani | ... | associate producer (as Toni Vellani) |
| Susan Winslow | ... | co-producer |
Music by
| Carl Davis | ... | (original music) |
Editing by
| Catherine Shields | ||
Editorial Department
| Michael Day | ... | associate editor |
| Fred Kepler | ... | assistant editor |
| Mary Nelson-Duerrstein | ... | negative cutter (as Mary Nelson) |
| Gail Schumann | ... | assistant editor |
| A.C. Warden | ... | associate editor |
| Susan Winslow | ... | supervising editor |
Production Management
| Gail Schumann | ... | production manager |
Sound Department
| Jack Higgins | ... | rerecording |
| Petur Hliddal | ... | sound recordist |
| Steve Nelson | ... | sound recordist |
| Stephen Santoyo | ... | sound restoration 2024 |
| A.C. Warden | ... | sound editor |
| Barbara Zahm | ... | sound recordist |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Gerald Cotts | ... | camera operator |
| Harrison Engle | ... | camera operator |
| Leslie Hill | ... | camera assistant |
| Tom Hurwitz | ... | camera operator |
| Don Lenzer | ... | camera operator |
| Robert Pierce | ... | camera operator |
| Larry Reibman | ... | gaffer |
| Juan Ruiz Anchía | ... | camera operator (as Juan Ruiz-Anchia) |
Music Department
| Carl Davis | ... | conductor |
| Kevin Townend | ... | orchestrator |
Additional Crew
| Susam Bridgers | ... | production secretary |
| James M. Jaffee | ... | production assistant |
| Christine Lamentia | ... | assistant to producer |
| Caroline Stevens | ... | production assistant / researcher |
Thanks
| Michael Anderson | ... | thanks |
| Jean Arthur | ... | thanks |
| Richard W. Bann | ... | thanks (as Richard Bann) |
| Howard Begle | ... | thanks |
| Kevin Brownlow | ... | thanks |
| Frank Davis | ... | thanks |
| Ann Del Valle | ... | thanks |
| John Del Valle | ... | thanks |
| Irene Dunne | ... | thanks |
| David Gill | ... | thanks |
| Sam Gill | ... | thanks |
| Robert Gottschalk | ... | thanks |
| Charles Guggenheim | ... | thanks |
| Charlton Heston | ... | thanks |
| Yvonne Howell | ... | thanks (as Yvonne Stevens) |
| Rock Hudson | ... | thanks |
| Robert Jiras | ... | thanks |
| Dick Kent | ... | thanks |
| Emile Kuri | ... | thanks |
| Ken Marthey | ... | thanks |
| Linda Mehr | ... | thanks |
| Ivan Moffat | ... | thanks |
| Hollingsworth Morse | ... | thanks |
| Jack Muth | ... | thanks |
| Werner Schumann | ... | thanks |
| James R. Silke | ... | thanks |
| James Stewart | ... | thanks |
| Grady Sutton | ... | thanks |
| Elizabeth Taylor | ... | thanks |
| John Veitch | ... | thanks |
| Shelley Winters | ... | thanks |
| Robert Wise | ... | thanks |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Rosebud Communications Releasing (1984) (United States) (theatrical)
- Castle Hill Productions (1985) (United States) (theatrical)
- American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1988) (United States) (tv)
- Warner Archive Collection (2004) (United States) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2004) (Canada) (DVD)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Atlantic/Richfield Company (grant)
- Cinema Services (opticals)
- Columbia Pictures (archive)
- Goldwyn Sound Facility (sound services)
- Library of Congress (archive)
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company (archive)
- Magno Sound (re-recording)
- Metaform Incorporated (title design)
- National Archives (archive)
- Panavision (camera equipment provided by)
- Paramount Pictures (archive)
- RKO General Pictures (archive)
- Richard Feiner & Co. Inc. (archive)
- Rodel Audio Services (sound services)
- Sherman Grinberg Film Libraries (archive)
- The National Endowment for the Arts (grant)
- The Ohio State University (archive)
- The Optical House (titles)
- Twentieth Century Fox (archive)
- Warner Bros. (archive)
Storyline
| Plot Summary |
Biography of director George Stevens by his son. It includes clips from many of his films with commentary by the actors and by directors such as Frank Capra, John Huston and Alan Pakula, among others. Also included are Stevens's war "home movies," found only after his death. Assigned by Eisenhower to film the war in Europe, Stevens used the opportunity to produce, at the same time, the only color footage ever shot in World War II. There is breathtaking film of D-Day and its aftermath; the triumphal march through Paris of the Allied liberators; and the unspeakable horrors of Dachau. This is what Goya might have done with a movie camera. On a more mundane level is a segment on Cecil B. DeMille's 1950 underhanded attempt to oust Joseph L. Mankiewicz, then president, from the Directors' Guild, which Stevens was instrumental in blocking.
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | In a 2022 interview with Hawk Koch, George Stevens Jr. reflected on the importance of the film in his career: "I think it was actually in 1984 that I did it, not that long after my father had died. I think it remains the most satisfying thing I've ever done, to have been able to do that and really show who he was and what he did and to have it respected." See more » |
| Movie Connections | Edited from George Stevens' World War II Footage (1946). See more » |
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Self - Narrator: Centuries ago an artist scrawled on a wall, "Let something of me survive." When my father died, he left these things to me. I looked through them, hoping to learn more about the man I thought I knew best in all the world. Here I found his wartime diary. He had written, "Life is a journey and it's always most interesting when you're not sure where you're going." See more » |