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Writer and director George Stevens Jr.'s life has long been at the center of culture and politics. He details his extraordinary life and fascinating career i...
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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. 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 ...
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 Cooper Stevens (George Stevens, Jr.’s father), was born on December 18, 1904, the same year the Nickelodeon made its debut in New York and would provide a movie career for George and in time prominence as one of Hollywood’s most admired film directors.
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.
