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Which Howard Hawks film became his biggest box-office hit?
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Howard Hawks (right) directing (from left to right) John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo (1959).
The Howard Hawks film that became his biggest box-office hit was the 1941 biographical drama Sergeant York. Starring Gary Cooper as the World War I hero Alvin York, the film earned Cooper an Academy Award for best actor and provided Hawks with the only Academy Award nomination for best director of his career.1