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	Barnes & Noble.com - Biography - George Stevens
		During World War II, Stevens was made an officer in the Signal Corps, filming vivid color footage of such historical milestones as the D-Day maneuvers and the liberation of the death camps; much of this footage was incorporated into the 1984 documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey, assembled by George Stevens Jr.
		While much of the film's content is dated, Stevens succeeded in transferring a bulky and verbose novel to the screen in purely visual terms; he also thrilled the bobbysoxer fans of Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor by shooting their love scenes in huge, provocatively lit closeups.
		The film was a failure for several reasons, not least of which was Stevens' curious insistence upon using big-name stars in every role (this is the movie in which John Wayne, as the centurion at the Crucifixion, proclaims "Trew-ly this man wuz the son of Gawd").
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/biography.asp?ctr=665203 (754 words)

	George Stevens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Stevens examining film from A Place in the Sun.
		George Stevens (December 18, 1904 - March 8, 1975) was an American motion picture director, producer, writer and cinematographer.
		Stevens has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1701 Vine Street.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Stevens (310 words)

	George W. Stevens
		George W. Stevens was born in Lowns County, Alabama, on July 12, 1831.
		George Stevens, along with John Hogg, received fine guns from the state legislature for their bravery in the fight.
		George Stevens also assisted the Texas Rangers, along with Denton County authorities in their pursuit of the infamous Sam Bass.
	www.sheriff.co.wise.tx.us /stevens.htm (457 words)

	American Masters . George Stevens \| PBS
		Stevens' training at the hands of figures like Hal Roach meant that by the time he was given the opportunity to direct himself, he had a wealth of technical experience to draw from.
		Stevens even hired a technical advisor for "Shane" who gave notes about everything from the costumes to the eating habits of the characters.
		More evidence for Stevens' authorial status comes from the fact that he was vehement that the film director retain control of his work and be able to affect every element of a film's production.
	www.pbs.org /hplink/redir/wnet/americanmasters/database/stevens_g.html (1770 words)

	George Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Stevens’ third ally is his own art, dealt out with incomparable grace to throw swift light across his unblinking comedy, and remove all traces of dullness from the scenes.
		Stevens’ compositions can be quite bewildering at first, because of the variety of counterpoints he obtains by every means available to him, and there is a study to be made of these means.
		Stevens has a way of isolating an element in the thronging composition, such as Uriah in the synagogue, who hears the command to walk in the light and does so, though he had been lame.
	cmulrooney.tripod.com /stevens.html (2642 words)

	Lectures and Seminars - The George Stevens Lecture - Academy Foundation - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...
		The George Stevens Lecture, established by the Academy in 1981 as a means of drawing attention to the collection of George Stevens' personal papers gifted to the Margaret Herrick Library by George Stevens Jr., is a departure from the norm for Academy Foundation Lectures.
		George Stevens was the recipient of nine Academy Award nominations and two Oscars for best directing, and he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1953.
		Stevens was a longtime member of the Academy's Board of Governors and served as the organization's 14th president.
	www.oscars.org /foundation/lectures/stevens.html (294 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- George Stevens files to run for 4th district, will challenge legal ...
		SAN DIEGO – George Stevens, the sometimes flamboyant and outspoken former councilman, filed papers Friday to declare his candidacy to reclaim his 4th District seat, ignoring a recent legal opinion by the city attorney.
		Stevens, who represented the district south of Highway 94 for three terms before bowing out in 2002, said he made his decision after receiving a differing legal opinion from attorneys Bob Ottilie and Dan Stanford.
		Stevens told reporters his top priorities if elected would be combating crime and helping "re-establish credibility" to a city that has seen its deficit-ridden employee pension system become a scandal.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/cities/20040917-1746-stevens.html (404 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
		George Stevens, creator of so many classic films—from Woman of the Year to A Place in the Sun to The Diary of Anne Frank—himself became the subject of a film in 1984 when his son, George Stevens, Jr., wrote and directed this documentary about the filmmaker's life.
		Stevens, Jr.'s choice to focus particularly on films that marked important points in his father's career creates a strong backbone for the documentary—and is certainly a more practical approach than trying to examine all of the films Stevens is remembered for.
		George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey is a skilled and often fascinating film, and it brings much-deserved attention and appreciation to a man who created many films that are both admired and loved, and which still have much insight to offer us on American life and character.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/georgestevensjourney.php (1414 words)

	George Stevens seen as a possible replacement \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Supporters of former San Diego Councilman George Stevens have begun a movement to clear the way for him to seek election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of his protégé Charles Lewis.
		Stevens was first elected to the council in a 1991 special election and was re-elected in 1994 and 1998, leaving office in December 2002.
		A Democrat, Stevens is a mixed bag politically – historically popular in his district for bringing city services to a place long neglected by City Hall, yet reviled by party activists who bristle at his opposition to homosexuality and abortion.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040810/news_1n10future.html (667 words)

	Academy to Celebrate George Stevens Centennial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Beverly Hills, CA — Oscar®-winning director George Stevens will be the subject of a centennial tribute presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday, September 30, which will serve as a kick-off for similar celebrations around the country and the world.
		Stevens headed a combat motion picture unit under General Eisenhower from 1943 to 1946 and was awarded the Legion of Merit for his service.
		Stevens enjoyed continued success and four of his films, "Swing Time," "Gunga Din," "Woman of the Year" and "Shane," have come to be regarded as classic examples of their respective genres.
	www.ampas.org /press/pressreleases/2004/04.05.05.html (433 words)

	Academy to Celebrate George Stevens Centennial
		Stevens headed a combat motion picture unit under General Dwight Eisenhower from 1944 to 1946 and was awarded the Legion of Merit for his service.
		In the ensuing years Stevens’ mastery of his craft continued to flourish and four of his films, "Swing Time," "Gunga Din," "Woman of the Year" and "Shane," have come to be regarded as classic examples of their respective genres.
		A commemorative pass for the George Stevens Centennial Tribute and all twelve films in the retrospective is available at a cost of $25 for the general public and $15 for Academy members and students with valid identification.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2004/04.09.15.html (563 words)

	George Stevens
		Stevens' directorial style displayed the same acute sense of visual dynamics that had distinguished his earlier work as a cameraman; the director refined and improved upon that style through sweat and persistence.
		Once he reached the "A" list, Stevens became one of the most meticulous and painstaking directors in the business, commencing production only after extensive research, filming take after take until perfection was achieved, and then spending as much as a full year editing the finished product.
		While George Stevens' reputation was tarnished by the disappointments of his last years, critics and fans alike have taken a "forgive and forget" stance since his death in 1975, preferring to cite his huge manifest of hits rather than his final faltering misses.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P118815 (739 words)

	The South End Newspaper - A&E - New releases enshrine legendary filmmaker George Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Stevens started out his journey as a cameraman in the 1920s, and pioneered techniques in that field, which garnered him recognition that propelled him into the director’s chair.
		Stevens and his crew enlisted in the Army and captured the events of the war.
		Stevens also dabbled in Westerns, and created “Shane” (1953), a story that not only dealt with the stereotypical gun-slinging heroes of the west, but also the mysteriousness that surround the loner character who played the title role.
	www.southend.wayne.edu /modules/news/print.php?storyid=1179 (758 words)

	George Stevens at Reel Classics
		Stevens' earliest directorial efforts were comedy shorts made for producer Hal Roach at Universal, but he soon moved to RKO where he was permitted to direct a few feature-length comedies.
		The following year, Stevens was chosen to lead the studio's most famous screen team, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in the sixth of the dancing duo's nine musicals for RKO, SWING TIME (1936).
		In 1941, Stevens directed Cary Grant to his first Oscar nomination for his performance as a cocksure newspaperman who struggles to become a responsible family man in Columbia's romantic drama PENNY SERENADE.
	www.reelclassics.com /Directors/Stevens/stevens.htm (526 words)

	My Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		George Daniel SHUPE was born on SEP 8 1814 in Second Peninsula, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.
		George Gilbert SHUPE was born on JUN 22 1869 in Mill Village, Queens County, Nova Scotia.
		George William SHUPE was born on MAR 9 1844.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~whynacht/d226.html (1428 words)

	A Salute to George Stevens
		If George Stevens had only ------ by now you're probably aware that George Stevens is, without a shadow of a doubt, my favorite director.
		Through George Stevens' uncanny ability to gently but firmly pull me in and make me an active participant in these and other films of his I learned about the value of family, friendship, moral standards, the need to stand up for what you believe in at all costs and so much more.
		George Stevens said to me at the start of each of his films: "Come with me. I want you to share this experience, these passions, this love, this yearning, this unyielding loyalty, this longing." And I did.
	dvdclassicscorner.net /stevens.htm (749 words)

	I REMEMBER MAMA + GEORGE STEVENS: A FILMMAKER'S JOURNEY - DVDs
		While the genre may be corny, Stevens' inflections are not, and they lend the characters dignity instead of denying their pain with the standard we're-the-people-and-we-keep-going crap.
		The film thus adopts the questionable position that Stevens was a serious dude long before his conversion, lavishing importance on comic sequences as if they didn't have the right to exist as simple pleasure.
		Stevens was at once white elephant and termite (to take a page from Manny Farber), and to privilege one over the other is to obscure his actual achievement(s).
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/stevenstwofer.htm (680 words)

	Stevens, George -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Both of his parents were actors, and Stevens was the stage manager of his father's company until 1921, when he went to Hollywood to become a cameraman.
		Settled in 1839 by George Stevens, it became the service centre for a lumbering community and grew in the 1870s after the arrival of the Wisconsin Central Railroad (the Soo Line).
		In a dramatization, George Washington recalls crossing the Delaware, spending the winter at Valley Forge and defeating the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9069653?tocId=9069653 (788 words)

	George Stevens and Jack Clayton Cultures
		George Stevens Oscar-winning film A Place in the Sun is based on Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy - starring Elisabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.
		Visually the hitch-hiker George and the rich-looking woman in the cream-colored luxury-convertible (Angela Vickers) are related to each other in a predictable way.
		Although Angela is not to reappear in connection with George until much later in the film, her importance as a character is emphasized here.
	webdoc.gwdg.de /edoc/ia/eese/articles/ritterbu/7_95.html (2851 words)

	Tribute honoring Oscar®-winning director George Stevens \| Academy Press Photo Area \| AMPAS
		Academy Award®-winning director George Stevens was the subject of a centennial tribute presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, October 1, 2004.
		Stevens widow, Yvonne, was greeted by Oscar® winner Warren Beatty at a pre-event reception at the Academy in Beverly Hills.
		Academy Award®-winning director-producer Steven Spielberg participated in a centennial tribute to the late Oscar®-winning director George Stevens, which was presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, October 1, 2004.
	photos.oscars.org /listanevent.php?events=350 (709 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994) is an important historical document in several ways, not the least of which is the rare opportunity to see color film taken in Europe during and immediately following World War II.
		Termed the "Stevens Irregulars," the director's film crew shot its official footage on 35mm fl-and-white film, but Stevens also shot 14 cans of 16mm Kodachrome "home" movies as he and the crew followed the Allied army across Europe.
		Stevens, who had joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1943, was put in charge of the Special Motion Pictures Unit and was assigned to follow the invasion of Normandy with the 6th Army for the purpose of recording their operations for the archives.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,85244\|85245\|85248,00.html (381 words)

	Giant: George Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		George Stevens (1904-1975) made many fine movies over a career that spanned the silent and sound eras, beginning with shorts featuring the likes of Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang and cresting in the 1950s with the now-classic films "Shane" and "Giant."
		Forced to leave high school to drive his father, a sometime actor, from audition to audition, Stevens made up for his lack of formal education by closely studying theater, literature and the then-new world of film, in which he saw the most possibilities.
		Something changed in Stevens, to be sure, but his old habits still held: He spent lots of money, took his time and made memorable art.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000745178 (533 words)

	George Stevens at Reel Classics, Page 2
		The scene in which Hepburn attends her first baseball game is one of several highlights, and under Stevens' guidance, she earned a Best Actress nomination for the performance.
		Also earning an Oscar nomination for her performance in a Stevens romantic comedy was squeaky silver screen comedienne Jean Arthur who, when forced to share her wartime apartment with Joel McCrea and Charles Coburn, cries so hard the audience just can't stop laughing.
		Some of the footage Stevens and his men shot is the only known color footage of the war in Europe, and almost twenty years after his death in 1975, Stevens' son George Stevens Jr.
	www.reelclassics.com /Directors/Stevens/stevens2.htm (509 words)

	George Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		George Stevens (December 18, 1904 - March 8, 1975) was an United StatesAmerican filmmotion picture director, producer, writer and cinematographer.
		Aris George Stevens, age 31, died Friday, October 7, 2005 in a local hospital.
		WASHINGTON: US President George W Bush and congressional Republicans are bracing for a winter of public discontent as the lingering effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita drive up home-heating bills by more than 70%.
	www.infothis.com /find/George_Stevens (617 words)

	George T. Stevens Papers
		George Thomas Stevens was born in Essex County, N.Y., on July 25, 1832, the son of Congregational minister Chauncey Coe Stevens and Lucinda Hoadley Stevens.
		By the end of 1861, Stevens was persuaded to leave his new wife to enlist as assistant surgeon to the 77th New York Infantry.
		However, Stevens provides few details of these military campaigns, and with the exception of his own maladies, describes few of the medical cases he encounters during these campaigns.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Schoff/S/Stevens.html (480 words)

	George Stevens: Interviews
		At first glance, George Stevens (1904Ð1975) appears to be the quintessential Hollywood director.
		As a leading producer and director of his era, Stevens repeatedly pushed against the Hollywood grain and clashed with censors.
		George Stevens: Interviews showcases the deep moral vision of a director who is as meticulous, discerning, and contemplative in his conversations as he is as a filmmaker.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/spring2004/george_stevens.html (291 words)

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