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| 3 | George Cooper Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American director during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood. He was the go-to director of comedy for Creator/{{RKO}} during TheThirties. |
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| 5 | He began his career in silents as a cinematographer and later directed several Creator/LaurelAndHardy shorts where he honed his directing comedy flair. With great success, he directed many classic films of the era, like ''Film/SwingTime'', arguably the best Creator/GingerRogers and Creator/FredAstaire film, the action/adventure film to inspire ''Franchise/IndianaJones'', ''Film/GungaDin'', and pairing Creator/SpencerTracy and Creator/KatharineHepburn together in ''Film/WomanOfTheYear''. |
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| 7 | With the onset of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, he joined the Army’s Signal Corps and headed the film unit during such important events as D-Day and the liberation of the concentration camp Dachau. The latter was of utmost importance for him and the world: his motion picture evidence of the conditions of the camp and its prisoners would be used in the Nuremberg trials to condemn the war crimes of Nazi leadership. |
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| 9 | Such strong and horrifying scenes of evil changed Stevens forever, and he vowed to never make a comedy again. He made, as promised, only serious dramas thereafter. |
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| 11 | He won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Director two times: for the Creator/MontgomeryClift drama ''Film/APlaceInTheSun'' and for Creator/JamesDean's last film ''Film/{{Giant}}''. |
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| 13 | He died from a heart attack at the age of 71. |
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| 15 | !!George Stevens' films on [=TV=] Tropes: |
| 16 | [[index]] |
| 17 | * ''Literature/AliceAdams'' (1935) |
| 18 | * ''Film/SwingTime'' (1936) |
| 19 | * ''Film/GungaDin'' (1939) |
| 20 | * ''Film/PennySerenade'' (1941) |
| 21 | * ''Film/TalkOfTheTown'' (1942) |
| 22 | * ''Film/WomanOfTheYear'' (1942) |
| 23 | * ''Film/TheMoreTheMerrier'' (1943) |
| 24 | * ''Film/IRememberMama'' (1948) |
| 25 | * ''Film/APlaceInTheSun'' (1951) |
| 26 | * ''Film/{{Shane}}'' (1953) |
| 27 | * ''Film/{{Giant}}'' (1956) |
| 28 | * ''Film/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'' (1959) |
| 29 | * ''Film/TheGreatestStoryEverTold'' (1965) |
| 30 | [[/index]] |
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