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About Curtis Bernhardt
Curtis Bernhardt (15 April 1899 – 22 February 1981) was a German film director born in Worms, Germany, under the name Kurt Bernhardt. Some of his American films were called "woman's films" including the Joan Crawford film Possessed (1947). Bernhardt trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film director in 1926. Other films include A Stolen Life (1946) starring Bette Davis and Sirocco (1951) starring Humphrey Bogart.
Bernhardt made films in Germany from 1925 until 1933, when he was forced to flee the Nazi regime—who briefly had him arrested—because he was Jewish.
Bernhardt directed films in France and England before moving on to Hollywood to work for Warner Brothers in 1940. Bernhardt produced and directed his last Hollywood picture, Kisses for My President (1964), about the nation's first female Chief Executive starring Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray.
Filmography
# • Namenlose Helden (short) (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1925)
- • Torments of the Night (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1926)
- • Orphan of Lowood (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1926)
- • Kinderseelen klagen euch an (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1927)
- • Das Mädchen mit den fünf Nullen (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1927)
- • The Prince of Rogues (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1928)
- • The Last Fort (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1929)
- • The Woman One Longs For aka The Woman Men Yearn For (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1929)
- • L'homme qui assassina (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1930)
- • The Last Company (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1930)
- • Der Mann, der den Mord beging (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1931)
- • The Rebel (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1932)
- • The Tunnel (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1933)
- • Le tunnel (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1933)
- • L'Or dans la rue (1934)
- • The Beloved Vagabond (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1936)
- • Le vagabond bien-aimé (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1937)
- • Carrefour (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1938)
- • Night in December (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1941)
- • Million Dollar Baby (1941)
- • My Love Came Back (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1940)
- • Lady with Red Hair (as Kurt Bernhardt) (1940)
- • Conflict (1945)
- • Devotion (1946)
- • A Stolen Life (1946)
- • High Wall (1947)
- • Possessed (1947)
- • Sirocco (1951)
- • Payment on Demand (1951)
- • The Blue Veil (1951)
- • The Merry Widow (1952)
- • Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
- • Beau Brummell (1954)
- • Interrupted Melody (1955)
- • Gaby (1956)
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Curtis Bernhardt's Timeline
| 1899 |
April 15, 1899
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Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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| 1937 |
February 28, 1937
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England, United Kingdom
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| 1981 |
February 22, 1981
Age 81
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Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA, United States
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, United States
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