Juarez

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Juarez

film by Dieterle [1939]

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John Huston
Early work
Clitterhouse (1938), and William Dieterle’s Juarez (1939) before directing his father in A Passage to Bali on Broadway in 1940.
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Clitterhouse (1938), and William Dieterle’s Juarez (1939) before directing his father in A Passage to Bali on Broadway in 1940.
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William Dieterle
Warner Brothers
Dieterle returned to biopics with Juarez (1939). Although positioned to be another Zola, it floundered, in part because of Muni’s impassive interpretation of the charismatic Mexican leader. In 1939 Dieterle remade The Hunchback of Notre Dame for RKO, and it was one of his finest (if least typical) works. The…
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Dieterle returned to biopics with Juarez (1939). Although positioned to be another Zola, it floundered, in part because of Muni’s impassive interpretation of the charismatic Mexican leader. In 1939 Dieterle remade The Hunchback of Notre Dame for RKO, and it was one of his finest (if least typical) works. The…
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Paul Muni
…national hero Benito Juárez in Juarez (1939). However, the drama, which also starred Bette Davis, did not match the success of Muni’s earlier biopics.
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…national hero Benito Juárez in Juarez (1939). However, the drama, which also starred Bette Davis, did not match the success of Muni’s earlier biopics.
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