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17. Mai 2022 · AFI Founder George Stevens Jr.’s Memoir Spans Hollywood and Washington. The 90-year-old filmmaker and producer, who also founded the Kennedy Center Honors, has carved out a life outside the ...
George Stevens, Jr. once confessed that as a young man, his dream was not to follow in his esteemed father’s footsteps, as many expected, but to become a sportswriter. Although a series of unexpected offers led him to abandon that dream, the sports world’s loss was the film world’s gain. Stevens is distinguished not only as movie royalty (his mother’s parents were also in the business ...
7. Juni 2022 · George Stevens Jr.: He had — he had a sense of the audience. I mean, he was an interesting and thoughtful man. In 1951, after my father had made "A Place in the Sun," we went to the Academy ...
14. Mai 2022 · Scott Simon talks to writer and director George Stevens Jr. about his life, growing up in Hollywood, and even Elizabeth Taylor, in his memoir, "My Place In The Sun."
George Stevens Jr. has had a lifelong passion for American film and its ability to enlighten audiences. In his book, My Place In The Sun, he gives an intuitive view of Hollywood's Golden Age and Washington spanning 60 years. He brings to life a gleaming era of American culture and history, highlighting the notable figures who inspired him along ...
The Stevens family has a proud history of five generations in the performing arts — a legacy that had a strong impact on the life and work of George Stevens, Jr. that was passed on to his children. While carving out his own creative path spanning seventy years, he dedicated much of his personal time shepherding the cinematic achievements of ...
My Place in the Sun offers the reader a front-row seat to the birth of the American Century through the lens of a model cultural citizen. In both wartime and peacetime, through national celebrations and tragedies, George Stevens Jr.’s meticulously documented, even-handed portraits of a century’s worth of filmic and political historymakers is a must-read for anyone interested in human affairs.
