Biography
Friends and Family
Frank Capra
[Friend]
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William Wyler
[Friend]
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Jack Stevens
[Brother]
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Georgie Cooper
[Mother]
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Lander Stevens
[Father]
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Elizabeth Taylor
[Friend]
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Shelley Winters
[Friend]
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 [on Jean Arthur] One of the greatest comediennes the screen has ever seen. When she works she gives everything that`s in her, and she studies her roles more than most of the actresses I`ve known. [on James Dean] All in all, it was a hell of a headache to work with him.
If a director is lucky enough to work with Irene Dunne, his worries disappear. Every scene she`s in matches; she`s the film editor`s delight. I would say she`s just about as "careless" as George Arliss.
[from a 1967 interview] "I just knew that if you engaged the audience with a promise that something would develop, you were in business. If not, you had to contrive automatic ridiculousness continuously. Comedy, in this sense, is all about preparation. Things have to be arranged and set up - cause and effect - and if the cause is apparent to the audience, they`ll stick with it until their sagacity is rewarded. It`s their intelligence that foresees things, while the comic character doesn`t."
[on The Talk of the Town (1942)]: "I knew it was going to come off all along: it didn`t have that element of hazard in it. It was more of an understood flight with a take-off time and an arrival time and not too much headwind."
[On `CinemaScope`] "It`s fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man."
Trivia
As a cinematographer at Hal Roach Studios, he is credited with saving the film career of young British comic Stan Laurel. Laurel`s pale blue eyes would register as an unnatural white on orthochromatic film, the standard film in use at that time. Stevens knew of panchromatic film and was able to get a supply of it from Chicago. This film was sensitive to blue so that Laurel`s eyes would photograph more naturally. Laurel would use Stevens for his short films at Roach. When Stan Laurel was teamed up with Oliver Hardy, the team make Stevens their cameraman of choice.
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Won the Oscar for Best Director twice - for A Place in the Sun (1951) and for Giant (1956). Neither film won Best Picture, and both starred Elizabeth Taylor.
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Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1970
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President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1958 to 1959
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Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1957
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Directed 16 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Coburn, Jean Arthur, Oskar Homolka, Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Ellen Corby, Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Brandon De Wilde, Jack Palance, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Mercedes McCambridge and Ed Wynn. Only Coburn and Winters won Oscars for their performances in one of Stevens` movies.
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Is portrayed by Craig Barnett in James Dean (2001) (TV), by Robert Mitchum in _James Dean: Race with Destiny (1997)_ and by Eugene Roche in Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995) (TV)
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Same birthday as Casper Van Dien who played James Dean in a film with Robert Mitchum as George Stevens.
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He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 1709 Vine St.
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President of the Screen Directors Guild. [1941-1943] and [1946-1948]
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Brother of cameraman Jack Stevens.
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Grandson of actress Georgia Woodthorpe.
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Son of actress Georgie Cooper.
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Interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Morning Light section, Space 3, Plot #8034.
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Son of actor Landers Stevens.
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Father of director George Stevens Jr..
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Grandfather of Michael Stevens
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Married twice.
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