George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)
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The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject intimately: the film was written, produced and directed by George Stevens Jr. Utilizing pristine-quality filmclips and interviews, Stevens Jr. details Stevens Sr.'s… More The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject intimately: the film was written, produced and directed by George Stevens Jr. Utilizing pristine-quality filmclips and interviews, Stevens Jr. details Stevens Sr.'s rise from silent-film cameraman to one of the top producer/directors in Hollywood. We are treated to snippets of Stevens' camerawork on the Laurel and Hardy films at Hal Roach Studios, then we are transported to his salad days as a feature director at RKO. Among the films highlighted from this first chapter of Stevens' directorial life are Alice Adams (1935), Swing Time (1936) and Gunga Din (1939) (one would like to have heard a bit more background info concerning Stevens' Wheeler and Woolsey comedies). Next we find Stevens as an autonomous entity at Columbia Pictures, producing and directing such classics as The More the Merrier (1943). The war years are thoroughly covered via Stevens' vivid color footage of the invasion of Europe. The last stages of Stevens' Hollywood career is traced through generous portions of A Place in the Sun (1951), Shane (1953), Giant (1956) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). The many interviewees include Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Warren Beatty. As an added filip, A Filmmaker's Journey includes rare home-movie sequences showing George Stevens at home and at work--all filmed with as much care and professionalism as Stevens' "mainstream" pictures. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- George Stevens Jr.
- Genres
- Documentary, Television
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Sep 25, 1984 Wide
- On DVD
- Dec 7, 2004
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Cast
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George Stevens Jr.
as Himself, Narrator
- Montgomery Clift
- Brandon De Wilde
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Fred Astaire
as Himself
- James Dean
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Cary Grant
as Himself
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
as Himself
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Katharine Hepburn
as Herself
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Rock Hudson
as Himself
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Sam Jaffe
as Himself
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Jean Arthur
as Herself
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Fred MacMurray
as Himself
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Jack Palance
as Himself
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Joel McCrea
as Himself
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Ginger Rogers
as Herself
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Elizabeth Taylor
as Herself
- Spencer Tracy
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Max von Sydow
as Himself
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Shelley Winters
as Herself
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Warren Beatty
as Himself
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Frank Capra
as Himself
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John Huston
as Himself
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Rouben Mamoulian
as Himself
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
as Himself
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Alan J. Pakula
as Himself
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Fred Zinnemann
as Himself
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Pandro S. Berman
as Himself
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Hermes Pan
as Himself
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Ivan Moffat
as Himself
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Hal Roach
as Himself
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Jack Sher
as Himself
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Millie Perkins
as Herself
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Irwin Shaw
as Himself
- Alan Ladd
