HOWARD HAWKS JADA BYRD BACKGROUND Born May 30

HOWARD HAWKS JADA BYRD

BACKGROUND • Born May 30 1896 • Goshen, Indiana • Graduated from Cornell • Moved from Indiana to California with family

INVOLVEMENT • Started at the Mary Pickford Company • Assistant Prop man before joining military • Story editor • First script was Tiger Love (1924)

GENRE • Film Noir • Crime • Western • Comedy • Science fiction

STYLE • ‘Hawksian’ women • Strong Female leads • Witty/ takes action • Fades in 50’s

FILMOGRAPHY • The Big Sleep (1946) • His Girl Friday (1940) • Rio Bravo (1959) • Bringing Up Baby (1938)

TOP MOVIE • The Big Sleep • Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.

THE BIG SLEEP • Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe • Lauren Bacall as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge • convoluted plot • The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler • Backlog of war movies

RECEPTION • “The Big Sleep is one of those pictures in which so many cryptic things occur amid so much involved and devious plotting that the mind becomes utterly confused. And, to make it more aggravating, the brilliant detective in the case is continuously making shrewd deductions which he stubbornly keeps to himself. What with two interlocking mysteries and a great many characters involved, the complex of blackmail and murder soon becomes a web of utter bafflement. Unfortunately, the cunning script-writers have done little to clear it at the end. ” •

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REFLECTION

SOURCES • http: //sensesofcinema. com/2002/great-directors/hawks/ • http: //www. tcm. com/tcmdb/person/83089%7 C 71302/Howard-Hawks/ • http: //www. biography. com/people/howard-hawks-9331796#transition-into-the-filmindustry