Edward Dmytryk
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Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian-born American film director.
He was known for his 1940s noir films and was nominated for Best Director for Crossfire (1947).
He was named as one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who refused to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their probes during the McCarthy-era 'Red Scare'.
All of them were sentenced to prison for contempt of Congress.
Dmytryk did testify to HUAC in 1951 but rehabilitated his career.
Dmytryk was first hired again by independent producer Stanley Kramer in 1952, and the Caine Mutiny (1954), a critical and commercial success.
At the 1955 Oscar Awards, it was named for Best Picture and several others.
Dmytryk was nominated for the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures by the Directors Guild.
Personal life and death
On May 12, 1948, Dmytryk married actress Jean Porter, his second wife. He died in Encino, California, at the age of 90, from heart and kidney disease. He was buried in Hollywood at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Career
When attending Hollywood High School, Dmytryk served as a messenger for Famous Players-Lasky (the forerunner of Paramount Pictures). He went from projectionist, film editor, and then, a director and a naturalized citizen of the United States, by age 31, he was on his way to projectionist, film editor, and, eventually, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Dmytryk worked in film production on films including The Dance of Life (1929), Only Saps (1930), Make Me a Star (1932), If I Had a Million (1932). He worked on two Leo McCarey films: Duck Soup (1933) and Six of a Kind (1934). He edited College Rhythm (1934), and later wrote Ruggles of Red Gap (1935).
Dmytryk made his directorial debut with The Hawk (1935), a low-budget, independent Western. He returned to editing at Paramount, but he was assigned to B films: Three Cheers for Love (1936), Murder Goes (1937), and The Navy Spirit (1937). Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) and Prison Farm (1938) were edited by Dmytryk. He migrated to Zaza (1938), directed by George Cukor. Leo McCarey was sent by RKO to edit Love Affair (1939). He returned to Some Like It Hot (1939) is Bob Hope's editor.
On Million Dollar Legs (1939) with Betty Grable, Dmytryk did some uncredited directing. Paraphrased He followed it with Emergency Squad (1940), Golden Gloves (1940), and Mystery Sea Raider (1940) with Carole Landis.
The musical Her First Romance (1940) was directed by Dmytryk at Monogram Pictures.
He went to Columbia to direct for its B picture unit (1941), The Devil Commands (1941), Under Age (1941), a documentary about Boris Karloff (1941), Leo Wolf (1941), Secrets of the Lone Wolf (1941), a "Lone Wolf" film.
Dmytryk joined RKO, where he continued to produce B movies, beginning with Seven Miles From Alcatraz (1942). However, he made Hitler's Children (1943), which proved to be a huge "sleeper" hit and earned over $3 million.
It didn't immediately change his career; he continued doing B movies, such as The Falcon Strikes Back (1943), and then went to Universal for Captive Wild Woman (1943). He directed Behind the Rising Sun (1943), a Hitler's Children's Children-style thriller about the Japanese. Dmytryk was promoted to A films in what was another box-office hit.
Ginger Rogers, RKO's biggest celebrity, was directed by Dmytryk in the melodrama Tender Comrade (1943), which was a big hit. My Sweet (1944), directed by Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely (1944), was based on Raymond Chandler's book Farewell, My Sweet (1944): The actor was Dick Powell, whose appearance as Philip Marlow completely renewed Powell's career. Dymtryk produced Back to Bataan (1945), a war film starring John Wayne, before being reunited with Powell, Paxton, and Scott for the famous film noir Cornered (1945). He produced Till the End of Time (1946), a drama about soldiers returning from war, which was a huge success, and went to England to make So Well Remembered (1947) with Paxton and Scott.
Dmytryk, Scott, and Paxton later worked on the massively profitable thriller Crossfire (1947), for which Dmytryk received a Best Director Oscar Award nomination. He was appointed as RKO's top producer.
Many Americans were alarmed by Soviet actions in Europe and reports of clandestine communist activity in the United States, which culminated in the war. The Second Red Scare has been dubbed the Second Red Scare. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigated Communist Party clout in the film industry, and Dmytryk was one of those called to testify against it before HUAC in 1947. In 1944 and 1945, Dmytryk had been a member of the Communist Party for a brief period of time. In a public refusal not to testify, he was persuaded by his former party associates to join nine other Hollywood celebrities. The Hollywood Tendency was found guilty of contempt of Congress and sentenced to prison time. Dmytryk was fired from RKO.
Dmytryk escaped to England and was officially excluded from England. He made two films for producer Nat Bronstein (1949), including a thriller Obsession (1949), and Give Us This Day (1949), a neo-realistic film based on the novel Christ in Concrete. Christ in Concrete, a triumph in Europe, was released in the United States and quickly dissuaded. Dmytryk returned to the United States, where he was arrested and imprisoned. In Millspoint Prison, West Virginia, he served for four months and 17 days.
For the second time on April 25, 1951, Dmytryk appeared before HUAC for the second time and answered all questions. He discussed his brief participation in 1945 and identified party members, including seven film directors: Arnold Manoff, Frank Tuttle, Herbert Biberman, Jack Berry, Bernard Verhous, Jules Dassin, and Michael Gordon. He said that the Alger Hiss case, the finding of spies in the United States and Canada, and the invasion of South Korea had prompted him to change his mind. John Howard Lawson, Adrian Scott, Albert Maltz, and others, he said, had pressured him to include communist elements in his films. His testimony in numerous court suits that others of the "Ten" had filed have lost.
In his 1996 book Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Tension, he related his experiences of the time in his book, Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten.
After his testimony, Dmytryk's first film after his admission was Mutiny (1952) from the King Brothers. Stanley Kramer, an independent American, was hired by Dmytryk to direct three low-budget films for Kramer's company, including The Sniper (1952), Eight Iron Men (1952), and The Juggler (1953), with Kirk Douglas. He produced Three Lives (1953), a short film for the United Jewish Appeal, in between.
In The Caine Mutiny (1954), a World War II naval drama based on Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning book that was a huge cultural and commercial success for Columbia Pictures, Kramer then selected Dmytryk to direct Humphrey Bogart and Van Johnson. In 1955, it came second among the year's top-grossing films, and Best Picture and Best Actor were nominated for Best Picture and Best Actor.
Dmytryk directed Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner in Broken Lance (1954), which was later removed from twentieth century Fox. He went to England for The End of the Affair (1955) for Columbia, then back to Fox to make Soldier of Fame (1955) with Clark Gable, The Left Hand of God (1955) with Tracy and Wagner (1956). The latter was made by Dmytryk.
He went to MGM, then under new RKO boss Dore Schary to make Raintree County (1957) with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. He produced The Young Lions (1958), a well-known war film starring Clift and Marlon Brando, before the Western Warlock (1959) (which he produced), and a flop remake of The Blue Angel (1959).
Dmytryk created Walk on the Wild Side (1962) for producer Charles Feldman. The Reluctant Saint (1962) was created and directed by him. With The Carpetbaggers (1964) from Harold Robbins' book for producer Joseph E. Levine, he had a huge success. He was given Where Love Has Gone (1964), Levine's second Robbins adaptation. The Gregory Peck thriller Mirage (1965), the William Holden Western Alvarez Kelly (1966), a war film Anzio (1968) and Shalako (1968), a Western with Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot, was followed by a Western.
Richard Burton and Dmytryk wrote and directed Bluebeard (1972). He was He Is My Brother (1975), and the 'Human' Factor (1975). Not Only Strangers (1979), his last film, was Not Only Strangers (1979).
Dmytryk's academic life began in the 1980s. At the University of Texas in Austin and the University of Southern California film school, he taught film and directing. Several books on film-making (such as On Film Editing and On Screenwriting) have been published). He has also appeared on the lecture circuit, appearing at numerous colleges and theaters, such as Orson Welles Cinema.