John Huston

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John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film producer, screenwriter, actor, and illustrator.

Huston was a citizen of the United States from birth but renounced US citizenship to become an Irish citizen and permanent resident.

He returned to the United States, where he lived the remainder of his life.

He wrote the screenplays for the majority of the 37 film scripts he directed, several of which are now considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1951), The Secret City (1971), The Man Who Would Be King (1978), and Prizzi's Honor (1986).

Huston earned 15 Oscar nominations during his 46-year career, including twice, and also directed Walter Huston and his daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar winnings. In his early years, Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris.

Throughout his career, he investigated the physical aspects of his films, sketching each scene on paper and then specifically framing his characters during the shooting.

Though most filmmakers rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston created his films when they were being shot, with no editing required. As in Moby Dick's "The Red Badge of Courage," some of Huston's films were based on classic books, often depicting a "heroic journey."

In several films, various groups of people are pursuing a common goal, but others are also struggling toward becoming "destructive partnerships," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension.

Many of his films were based on themes such as faith, meaning, truth, liberation, psychology, colonialism, and war. "A titan," "a rebel," and a "renaissance man" in Hollywood film history, Huston has been referred to as "a hero."

"cinema's Ernest Hemingway," author Ian Freer's words, a filmmaker who was "never afraid to discuss difficult topics head on."

Early life

In Nevada, Missouri, John Huston was born on August 5, 1906. He was the only child of Rhea (née Gore) and Walter Huston, a Canadian-born boy. His father was a vain reporter and then in films, first in vainville and then in films. His mother worked as a sports editor for several publications before he was born but stopped after John was born. His father, in turn, left stage acting for stable employment as a civil engineer, but within a few years, he returned to stage acting within a few years. He went on to be extremely popular on Broadway and then in motion pictures, then in motion pictures. He was born in Scotland, Scotish, English, and Welsh.

In 1913, Huston's parents divorced when he was six years old. He enrolled and studied in boarding schools for a large part of his childhood. During summer vacations, he traveled separately with each of his parents, as well as his father on vaindeville tours, and with his mother to horse races and other sporting activities. Young Huston enjoyed a lot from watching his father perform on stage, and he was later attracted to acting.

Lawrence Grobel and others disagree that his relationship with his mother may have led to his husband's divorce five times and that maintaining relationships is proving difficult. "When I interviewed some of the women who had adored him, they inevitably referred to his mother as the key to unlocking Huston's psyche." "She [his mother] was the central figure," actress Olivia de Havilland said. I always thought that witches were ridden by witches. He seemed to be pursued by something that was potentially lethal. It wasn't his mother, but his mother was concerned.

Huston was often sick as a child; he was often sick; he was referred to as a result of an enlarged heart and kidney disease. He recovered after an extended bedridden stay in Arizona and moved with his mother to Los Angeles, where he attended Abraham Lincoln High School. After two years as a young boy, he went out to become a professional boxer. He was a top-ranking amateur lightweight boxer in California by age 15. After suffering a broken nose, he ended his brief boxing career.

He also worked on a variety of topics, including ballet, English and French literature, opera, horseback riding, and Los Angeles's Art Students League. Huston, a Los Angeles resident, became infatuated with the recent film industry and motion pictures as a spectator. "Charlie Chaplin was a god" to Huston.

Huston, a little boy who was acting in off-Broadway productions, and his father, who was playing in off-Broadway plays, has returned to New York City to live with his father, who was also appearing in off-Broadway films, and he had only been in small roles. He later discovered that when watching his father rehearse, he became fascinated with actor mechanics: he learned about them later.

Huston traveled alone to Mexico after a short time of being on stage and having undergone surgery. He gained a spot as an honorary member of the Mexican cavalry after two years of service as a result of various adventures. Dorothy Harvey, a high school friend, came back to Los Angeles and married Dorothy Harvey, a girl from high school. Their marriage lasted seven years (1926-1933).

Personal life and death

Huston, a producer, embodied "intellect, charm, and physical beauty" in the film industry, according to producer George Stevens, Jr. "He was the most charismatic of the directors I knew," he says, speaking in a soothing, melodic voice that was often imitated, but not unique to him."

Huston struck and killed a pedestrian on Sunset Boulevard on September 25, 1933, while driving inebriated on Sunset Boulevard, Brazil's Tosca Roulien, wife of Raul Roulien. Huston was forced to withdraw from public service temporarily and instead work as a screenwriter due to the resulting media frenzy. Huston was cleared of any responsibility for the fire by a subsequent inquiry. Huston crashed into a parked car, injuring his passenger Zita Johann before this crash, although driving inebriated. Johann was hit in the head when she was thrown through the windshield. Huston was charged with driving while inebriated.

When living in Ireland, Huston loved the outdoors, particularly hunting. Among his lifetime's adventures before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a Mexican cavalry rider, and a documentary film maker during World War II. He loved hard liquor and women in addition to sports and adventure. Stevens likes him as someone who "lived life to its fullest." Even Barson claims that Huston's "flamboyant life" as a rebel might make for "an even more enjoyable story than most of his films."

His daughter, Anjelica Huston, said he did not like Hollywood and that "especially despised Beverly Hills" was misappropriated from the ground up. He didn't like any of those things; he was not interested or attracted by it." "He liked to be in the wild places," she said, whereas "he loved animals as much as he liked people."

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John Huston is believed to have been an atheist, but his religious convictions are difficult to determine. He denied that he had no orthodox faith. Anjelica, his mother, was raised Roman Catholic. 234 He was raised Roman Catholic.

Huston has been married for the second time in a row.

His five wives were:

Dorothy Harvey (m. 1925; div. Lesley Black (m. 1937) Lesley Black (div. Div.) 1945 (M. 1946) Evelyn Keyes (div. div. m. 1945) Div. 1950s Enrica Soma (m. 1950; died in 1969) Celeste Shane (m. 1972) Enrica Soma (m. 1969) [div.

1977)

George Hodel, Orson Welles, and Ernest Hemingway were among his colleagues. Humphrey Bogart was one of his closest friends, and Huston reacted with eulogy at his funeral.

Huston came to Ireland in 1951 and stayed at Luggala, County Wicklow's home of Garech Browne, a Guinness family member. He returned to Ireland several times after returning to Greece, and on one of these visits, he bought and restored a Georgian home, St Clerans, of Craughwell, County Galway. He was Master of Fox Hounds (MFH) of County Galway Hunt, from 1960 to 1971, and whose kennels are at Craughwell. In 1964, he renounced his American citizenship and became an Irish citizen. Anjelica's daughter spent time in Kylemore Abbey, Ireland, for many years. On the NUI Galway campus, a film school has been named to him.

"Nothing has played a more significant part in my life" Huston wrote in his autobiography. He attended the Smith School of Art in Los Angeles as a young man but then dropped out in a matter of a few months. He later attended the Art Students League of New York. He painted throughout his life and had studios in each of his homes. He had amassed a large collection of works of art, including a notable collection of Pre-Columbian paintings.

Huston, a heavy smoker, was diagnosed with emphysema in 1978. He couldn't breathe for more than 20 minutes without needing oxygen by the end of his life in the last year. He died in his rented home in Middletown, Rhode Island, on August 28, 1987, from pneumonia as a result of lung disease. Huston's mother is buried in Hollywood's Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

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Early career as writer

Huston wrote Frankie and Johnny, based on the ballad of the same name, during his stay in Mexico. He discovered that writing would be a lucrative career after selling it quickly, and he concentrated on it. When H. L. Mencken, editor of the well-known magazine American Mercury, purchased two of his books, "Fool" and "Figures of Combat Men," his self-confidence was raised. Huston's stories and feature articles were published in Esquire, Theatre Arts, and The New York Times during the previous years. He also worked on the New York Graphic for a short time. In 1931, when he was 25, he returned to Los Angeles in the hopes of writing for the burgeoning film industry. The silent films had given way to "talkies," and writers were in demand. His father had worked in film before and had already achieved success in a number of television sets.

Huston was offered a script editing gig with Samuel Goldwyn Productions, but after six months of no assignments, he left to work for Universal Studios, where his father was a character. He started working in the script department and began writing dialogue for a number of films in 1932, including Murders in the Rue Morgue, A House Divided, and Law and Order. Walter Huston, Walter Huston, appeared on both sets. William Wyler, who gave Huston his first "inside view" of the filmmaking process at all stages of development, directed a House Divided. Wyler and Huston were close friends and collaborators on a number of major films.

During his first years as a writer in Hollywood, Huston renounced himself as a "lusty, hard-drinking libertine." Huston characterized those years as a "slew of misadventures and disappointments." In 1933, he was in a romantic union with actress Zita Johann. Johann was killed by a parked car as a passenger, knocking Johann through the glass windshield. Huston was charged with head injury and driving while inebriated. When actor Tosca Roulien's wife, actor Raul Roulien, was killed while driving inebriated, his brief stint as a Hollywood writer ended abruptly. Clark Gable was suspected of the assault and run, according to rumors, but MGM general manager Eddie Mannix paid Huston to shoulder the blame. However, it's only a rumor because Gable was on location filming a film, but the incident left him "traumatized." He moved to London and Paris as a "drifter."

By 1937, the 31-year-old Huston was back to Hollywood, intent on being a "serious writer." He married Lesley Black again. He started as a scriptwriter at Warner Brothers Studio, and he began writing his own scripts. He co-wrote scripts for major films such as Jezebel, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Juarez, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, and Sergeant York (1941). Both Ehrlich and Sergeant York were nominated for Academy Awards for his screenplays. Sergeant York, which was directed by Howard Hawks, has "gone down" as one of Howard Hawks' best pictures, according to Huston, and Gary Cooper did a good job playing the teenage mountaineer.

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Huston was regarded and respected as a screenwriter. Warners persuaded him to direct under the condition that his next script be a hit.

Huston wrote:

Raoul Walsh directed High Sierra (1941), his next script. Huston's film became a hit. Humphrey Bogart's debut as a gunman on the run made him a star in his first major role. Warners stuck to their side of the bargain and gave Huston his pick of subject.

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