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Bessie Love (sister-in-law) [1] Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name." [2]
Aside from their displays of great craftsmanship, the answer is director Howard Hawks, one of the most celebrated of American filmmakers, who ironically, was little celebrated by his peers in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences during his career.
Howard Hawks (1896–1977) was an American film director who made 40 films between 1926 and 1970. He is responsible for classic films in genres ranging from film noir, screwball comedy, crime, science fiction, and Western.
May 26, 2024 · Howard Hawks, American motion-picture director who maintained a consistent personal style within the framework of traditional film genres in work that ranged from the 1920s to the ’70s. His movies included Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, To Have and Have Not, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Rio Bravo.
Aug 7, 2023 · Howard Hawks is a legendary Hollywood filmmaker with such varied classics as western Rio Bravo and screwball comedy His Girl Friday to his name. Which Howard Hawks movies are the most iconic? Screen Rant
May 27, 2016 · Howard Hawks: 10 essential films + 3 underrated ones. Across film noir, action-adventure, westerns and screwball comedies, Howard Hawks made some of the most flat-out entertaining movies you could ever see. Sometimes championing 10 just isn't enough...
When Howard Hawks came to visit the Chicago Film Festival in 1968, they asked Charles Flynn to get up on the stage and introduce him. And Flynn, who was helping to run Doc Films at the University of Chicago at the time, gave an introduction that was so simple in its eloquence that I remembered it the other day, when I learned Hawks had died.
