• Michael Curtiz is the classic example of a studio director in that he could turn his hand to almost anything.
    • Michael Curtiz, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, and Betty Haynes in White Christmas
    • Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, and Michael Curtiz in Касабланка (1942)
    • Michael Curtiz and Lil Dagover in The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
  • Film historian Alan K. Rode’s rich and absorbing biography Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film (University Press of Kentucky), now in its second printing...
  • Michael Curtiz is considered one of the most illustrious directors in the history. When the studio system was prevalent, he directed a number of films during...
  • And foremost among them was Michael Curtiz. Thrillers, weepies, war movies, comedies, horror, film noir - the Hungarian-born Curtiz tackled them all."
  • Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 — April 10, 1962), born Manó Kaminer, was a Hungarian-American film director.
  • (From left) Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942), directed by Michael Curtiz.
  • Mike did everything. ... Robertson, James C., The Casablanca Man: The Cinema of Michael Curtiz (London and New York: Routledge, 1993).
  • Even his great friend Hal Wallis often described Michael Curtiz as difficult, but stressed that Curtiz had the power to create cinematic magic.
  • One of the most prolific directors in the history of the cinema, Hungarian-born Michael Curtiz thrived in the studio system as the top helmsman at Warner Bros.