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Henry Hathaway

August 17, 2023

Henry Hathaway (March 13, 1898 – February 11, 1985) was an American film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring Randolph Scott and John Wayne. He directed Gary Cooper in seven films.

Henry Hathaway
Born
Marquis Henri Léopold de Fiennes

(1898-03-13)March 13, 1898
Sacramento, California,
United States
DiedFebruary 11, 1985(1985-02-11) (aged 86)
Hollywood, California,
United States
Resting placeHoly Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California
Occupations
Years active1925–1974
SpouseBlanche "Skip" Gonzales (married 1932–1985)
Children1

Background

Born Henri Léopold de Fiennes Hathaway in Sacramento, California,[1] he was the son of an American actor and stage manager, Rhody Hathaway (1868–1944), and a Hungarian-born Belgian aristocrat, the Marquise Lillie de Fiennes (Budapest, 1876–1938), who acted under the name Jean Hathaway.

This branch of the De Fiennes family came to America in the 19th century on behalf of King Leopold I of Belgium and was part of the negotiations with the Belgian Prime Minister, Charles Rogier (1800–1885), to secure the 1862 treaty[2] between Belgium and what was then known as the Sandwich Islands and is now called Hawaii.

The title Marquis, commissioned by the King of the Belgians, comes from his grandfather, Marquis Henri Léopold de Fiennes, who settled in San Francisco after failing to acquire the Sandwich Islands for his King.

Hathaway served in the United States Army during World War I.

Early career

In 1925, Hathaway began working in silent films as an assistant to directors such as Victor Fleming and Josef von Sternberg and made the transition to sound with them. He was the assistant director to Fred Niblo in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur starring Francis X. Bushman and Ramon Novarro. During the remainder of the 1920s, Hathaway continued as an assistant, helping direct actors such as Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Fay Wray, Walter Huston, Clara Bow, and Noah Beery.

First films as director

Randolph Scott Westerns

Henry Hathaway made his directorial debut with a Western film production at Paramount, Heritage of the Desert (1932). Based on a Zane Grey novel, Hathaway gave Randolph Scott his first starring role in the film leading to his lengthy career in cowboy roles.

It began a series of Hathaway-directed Scott Westerns from Grey novels, Wild Horse Mesa (1932), The Thundering Herd (1933), Sunset Pass (1933), To the Last Man (1933), Man of the Forest (1933) and The Last Round-Up (1934).

Hathaway directed an action film set in the Philippines, Come On Marines! (1934) starring Richard Arlen and Ida Lupino, followed by a drama The Witching Hour (1934), and an early Shirley Temple film, Now and Forever (1934). The latter also starred Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper

Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) and Action Films

Hathaway's next film was with Cooper, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935). Hathaway got the job because the film changed directors and Cooper, who had director approval, admired Hathaway's films.[3][4] The movie was a hit and received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and for which Hathaway won his only nomination for the Academy Award for Directing.

Hathaway was now established as one of the main directors on the Paramount lot. He made another with Cooper, Peter Ibbetson (1935). This was followed by The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936), his first color movie, for which Walter Wanger borrowed him, paying him $1000 a week.[5] He also worked on the troubled I Loved a Soldier (1936) which was never finished, and did a Mae West movie, Go West, Young Man (1936).

Hathaway was back with Cooper for the anti-slaving adventure story, Souls at Sea (1937), co-starring George Raft. With Raft and Henry Fonda he made Spawn of the North (1938).

The Real Glory (1939), with Cooper, was a reprise of Bengal Lancers set in the Philippines. After this he had a fight with Paramount and left to join Fox.[6]

20th Century Fox

Hathaway worked for 20th Century Fox directing the studio's biggest male star, Tyrone Power, in Johnny Apollo (1940) and Brigham Young (1940). Hathaway adored working for Darryl Zanuck calling him the finest filmmaker in America. He says he never turned down a script Zanuck offered him. "Some dogs, yes, but a lot of good ones too," he said.[7]

He returned to Paramount to direct John Wayne in The Shepherd of the Hills (1941). For Walter Wanger, he made another Imperial action film, Sundown (1941).

Back at Fox he made Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942), China Girl (1942), Wing and a Prayer (1944), Home in Indiana (1944) and Nob Hill (1945).

During the 1940s, Hathaway began making films in the semidocumentary genre, often using the film noir style. These included The House on 92nd Street (1945), for which he was nominated for a Best Director award by the New York Film Critics Circle, The Dark Corner (1946), 13 Rue Madeleine (1947), Kiss of Death (1947) and Call Northside 777 (1948), in which Hathaway presented one of the first on-screen uses of a Fax machine.

Hathaway returned to adventure films with Down to the Sea in Ships (1949). He was reunited with Power for The Black Rose (1950). Hathaway had some time off for a cancer operation then returned to make The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951) was a biopic of General Rommel. It was followed by Fourteen Hours (1951), a noir about a man going to commit suicide, You're in the Navy Now (1951), a military comedy with Cooper, and two with Power: Rawhide (1951), a Western, and Diplomatic Courier (1952).

Hathaway directed the film noir Niagara (1953) which was Marilyn Monroe's breakthrough role and White Witch Doctor (1953) with Susan Hayward and Robert Mitchum. He was reunited with Cooper on Garden of Evil (1954), a Western, then did the swashbuckler Prince Valiant (1954).

After The Racers (1955), with Zanuck's mistress Bella Darvi, Hathaway left Fox.[8]

Post-Fox career

He made two thrillers with Van Johnson: The Bottom of the Bottle (1956) and 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956).

John Wayne hired him to make Legend of the Lost (1957) for Wayne's company. Back at Fox he made the Western, From Hell to Texas (1958). During the movie, Dennis Hopper attempted to assert himself artistically on the set. Perhaps influenced by his recent experience with fellow actor James Dean's rebellious attitude on the sets of Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956), Hopper forced Hathaway to shoot more than 80 takes of a scene before he acquiesced to Hathaway's demands. After the shoot, Hathaway reportedly told the young actor that his career in Hollywood was over. Hopper later admitted he was wrong to have disrespected Hathaway as a youth and called him "the finest director I have ever worked with," working again with Hathaway on The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) and True Grit (1969).

Hathaway then made a melodrama Woman Obsessed (1959) and thriller Seven Thieves (1960). He was reunited with Wayne on the comedy-action "northern," North to Alaska (1960).

Later career

Hathaway was one of three directors on the Cinerama Western, How the West Was Won (1962), directing the bulk of the film, including the river, prairie and train robbery sequences. He was meant to direct McLintock but the producers would not meet his salary.[9]

He visited Spain to work with Wayne again on Circus World (1964). Wayne asked Hathaway to cast John Smith in the role of Steve McCabe in the film; from 1959 to 1963, Smith had played the part of rancher Slim Sherman on NBC's Laramie series. According to Smith's Internet biography, Hathaway developed an intense dislike for Smith and stopped him from landing choice roles thereafter in Hollywood.[10]

Circus World was a box-office disappointment but Wayne and Hathaway's next movie together, The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), was a hit. So too was Nevada Smith (1966), a Western starring Steve McQueen that was extrapolated from a brief section of Harold Robbins' novel The Carpetbaggers.

He visited Africa to make The Last Safari (1967), then did the Western 5 Card Stud (1968) with Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum. It was a mild success, but True Grit (1969), produced by Hal B. Wallis, was a success at the box-office and won John Wayne a Best Actor Oscar.

He stepped in for George Seaton in directing some winter outdoor scenes for the all-star Airport (1970), which starred Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin. He did it as a favour for Seaton but took no money.[11]

Hathaway made a war movie with Richard Burton, Raid on Rommel (1971), then made another Western for Wallis, Shoot Out (1971). Hathaway's 65th and final film was Hangup (1974), a blaxploitation movie. He turned down Rooster Cogburn as he did not like the script.[12]

Death

Hathaway died from a heart attack in 1985 in Hollywood and is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. His body of work earned him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1638 Vine Street.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "Hollywood Star Walk: Henry Hathaway". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
    • a "Born March 13, 1898 in Sacramento, California."
  2. ^ "Kingdom of Hawaii Treaty with Belgium – 1862". hawaiiankingdom.org.
  3. ^ "BECALMED HOLLYWOOD SHAKES OUT HER SAILS". New York Times. July 29, 1934. ProQuest 101195511.
  4. ^ Eyman p 6
  5. ^ Eyman p 6
  6. ^ Eyman p 7
  7. ^ Eyman p 10
  8. ^ "HESTON KEPT BUSY IN 4 SCREEN ROLES". New York Times. August 23, 1954. p. 2.
  9. ^ Eyman p 12
  10. ^ "John Smith Biography". tonygill.co.uk. Retrieved October 11, 2012.
  11. ^ Eyman p 12
  12. ^ Eyman p 12

Notes

  • Eyman, Scott (September–October 1974). "'I made movies' an interview with Henry Hathaway". Take One. p. 6-10.

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Henry Hathaway news newspapers books scholar JSTOR August 2008 Learn how and when to remove this template message Henry Hathaway March 13 1898 February 11 1985 was an American film director and producer He is best known as a director of Westerns especially starring Randolph Scott and John Wayne He directed Gary Cooper in seven films Henry HathawayBornMarquis Henri Leopold de Fiennes 1898 03 13 March 13 1898Sacramento California United StatesDiedFebruary 11 1985 1985 02 11 aged 86 Hollywood California United StatesResting placeHoly Cross Cemetery Culver City CaliforniaOccupationsFilm directorFilm producerYears active1925 1974SpouseBlanche Skip Gonzales married 1932 1985 Children1 Contents 1 Background 2 Early career 3 First films as director 3 1 Randolph Scott Westerns 3 2 Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935 and Action Films 4 20th Century Fox 5 Post Fox career 6 Later career 7 Death 8 Filmography 9 References 10 Notes 11 External linksBackground EditBorn Henri Leopold de Fiennes Hathaway in Sacramento California 1 he was the son of an American actor and stage manager Rhody Hathaway 1868 1944 and a Hungarian born Belgian aristocrat the Marquise Lillie de Fiennes Budapest 1876 1938 who acted under the name Jean Hathaway This branch of the De Fiennes family came to America in the 19th century on behalf of King Leopold I of Belgium and was part of the negotiations with the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Rogier 1800 1885 to secure the 1862 treaty 2 between Belgium and what was then known as the Sandwich Islands and is now called Hawaii The title Marquis commissioned by the King of the Belgians comes from his grandfather Marquis Henri Leopold de Fiennes who settled in San Francisco after failing to acquire the Sandwich Islands for his King Hathaway served in the United States Army during World War I Early career EditIn 1925 Hathaway began working in silent films as an assistant to directors such as Victor Fleming and Josef von Sternberg and made the transition to sound with them He was the assistant director to Fred Niblo in the 1925 version of Ben Hur starring Francis X Bushman and Ramon Novarro During the remainder of the 1920s Hathaway continued as an assistant helping direct actors such as Gary Cooper Marlene Dietrich Adolphe Menjou Fay Wray Walter Huston Clara Bow and Noah Beery First films as director EditRandolph Scott Westerns Edit Henry Hathaway made his directorial debut with a Western film production at Paramount Heritage of the Desert 1932 Based on a Zane Grey novel Hathaway gave Randolph Scott his first starring role in the film leading to his lengthy career in cowboy roles It began a series of Hathaway directed Scott Westerns from Grey novels Wild Horse Mesa 1932 The Thundering Herd 1933 Sunset Pass 1933 To the Last Man 1933 Man of the Forest 1933 and The Last Round Up 1934 Hathaway directed an action film set in the Philippines Come On Marines 1934 starring Richard Arlen and Ida Lupino followed by a drama The Witching Hour 1934 and an early Shirley Temple film Now and Forever 1934 The latter also starred Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935 and Action Films Edit Hathaway s next film was with Cooper The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935 Hathaway got the job because the film changed directors and Cooper who had director approval admired Hathaway s films 3 4 The movie was a hit and received seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and for which Hathaway won his only nomination for the Academy Award for Directing Hathaway was now established as one of the main directors on the Paramount lot He made another with Cooper Peter Ibbetson 1935 This was followed by The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1936 his first color movie for which Walter Wanger borrowed him paying him 1000 a week 5 He also worked on the troubled I Loved a Soldier 1936 which was never finished and did a Mae West movie Go West Young Man 1936 Hathaway was back with Cooper for the anti slaving adventure story Souls at Sea 1937 co starring George Raft With Raft and Henry Fonda he made Spawn of the North 1938 The Real Glory 1939 with Cooper was a reprise of Bengal Lancers set in the Philippines After this he had a fight with Paramount and left to join Fox 6 20th Century Fox EditHathaway worked for 20th Century Fox directing the studio s biggest male star Tyrone Power in Johnny Apollo 1940 and Brigham Young 1940 Hathaway adored working for Darryl Zanuck calling him the finest filmmaker in America He says he never turned down a script Zanuck offered him Some dogs yes but a lot of good ones too he said 7 He returned to Paramount to direct John Wayne in The Shepherd of the Hills 1941 For Walter Wanger he made another Imperial action film Sundown 1941 Back at Fox he made Ten Gentlemen from West Point 1942 China Girl 1942 Wing and a Prayer 1944 Home in Indiana 1944 and Nob Hill 1945 During the 1940s Hathaway began making films in the semidocumentary genre often using the film noir style These included The House on 92nd Street 1945 for which he was nominated for a Best Director award by the New York Film Critics Circle The Dark Corner 1946 13 Rue Madeleine 1947 Kiss of Death 1947 and Call Northside 777 1948 in which Hathaway presented one of the first on screen uses of a Fax machine Hathaway returned to adventure films with Down to the Sea in Ships 1949 He was reunited with Power for The Black Rose 1950 Hathaway had some time off for a cancer operation then returned to make The Desert Fox The Story of Rommel 1951 was a biopic of General Rommel It was followed by Fourteen Hours 1951 a noir about a man going to commit suicide You re in the Navy Now 1951 a military comedy with Cooper and two with Power Rawhide 1951 a Western and Diplomatic Courier 1952 Hathaway directed the film noir Niagara 1953 which was Marilyn Monroe s breakthrough role and White Witch Doctor 1953 with Susan Hayward and Robert Mitchum He was reunited with Cooper on Garden of Evil 1954 a Western then did the swashbuckler Prince Valiant 1954 After The Racers 1955 with Zanuck s mistress Bella Darvi Hathaway left Fox 8 Post Fox career EditHe made two thrillers with Van Johnson The Bottom of the Bottle 1956 and 23 Paces to Baker Street 1956 John Wayne hired him to make Legend of the Lost 1957 for Wayne s company Back at Fox he made the Western From Hell to Texas 1958 During the movie Dennis Hopper attempted to assert himself artistically on the set Perhaps influenced by his recent experience with fellow actor James Dean s rebellious attitude on the sets of Rebel Without a Cause 1955 and Giant 1956 Hopper forced Hathaway to shoot more than 80 takes of a scene before he acquiesced to Hathaway s demands After the shoot Hathaway reportedly told the young actor that his career in Hollywood was over Hopper later admitted he was wrong to have disrespected Hathaway as a youth and called him the finest director I have ever worked with working again with Hathaway on The Sons of Katie Elder 1965 and True Grit 1969 Hathaway then made a melodrama Woman Obsessed 1959 and thriller Seven Thieves 1960 He was reunited with Wayne on the comedy action northern North to Alaska 1960 Later career EditHathaway was one of three directors on the Cinerama Western How the West Was Won 1962 directing the bulk of the film including the river prairie and train robbery sequences He was meant to direct McLintock but the producers would not meet his salary 9 He visited Spain to work with Wayne again on Circus World 1964 Wayne asked Hathaway to cast John Smith in the role of Steve McCabe in the film from 1959 to 1963 Smith had played the part of rancher Slim Sherman on NBC s Laramie series According to Smith s Internet biography Hathaway developed an intense dislike for Smith and stopped him from landing choice roles thereafter in Hollywood 10 Circus World was a box office disappointment but Wayne and Hathaway s next movie together The Sons of Katie Elder 1965 was a hit So too was Nevada Smith 1966 a Western starring Steve McQueen that was extrapolated from a brief section of Harold Robbins novel The Carpetbaggers He visited Africa to make The Last Safari 1967 then did the Western 5 Card Stud 1968 with Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum It was a mild success but True Grit 1969 produced by Hal B Wallis was a success at the box office and won John Wayne a Best Actor Oscar He stepped in for George Seaton in directing some winter outdoor scenes for the all star Airport 1970 which starred Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin He did it as a favour for Seaton but took no money 11 Hathaway made a war movie with Richard Burton Raid on Rommel 1971 then made another Western for Wallis Shoot Out 1971 Hathaway s 65th and final film was Hangup 1974 a blaxploitation movie He turned down Rooster Cogburn as he did not like the script 12 Death EditHathaway died from a heart attack in 1985 in Hollywood and is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City California His body of work earned him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1638 Vine Street Filmography EditThe Ten Commandments assistant for Cecil B DeMille uncredited 1923 Ben Hur A Tale of the Christ assistant for B Reeves Eason amp assistant director uncredited 1925 The Rough Riders assistant director 1927 Heritage of the Desert 1932 Wild Horse Mesa 1932 The Thundering Herd 1933 Under the Tonto Rim 1933 Sunset Pass 1933 Man of the Forest 1933 To the Last Man 1933 The Witching Hour 1934 The Last Round Up 1934 Now and Forever 1934 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935 Peter Ibbetson 1935 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1936 Souls at Sea 1937 Spawn of the North 1938 The Real Glory 1939 Johnny Apollo 1940 Brigham Young 1940 The Shepherd of the Hills 1941 Sundown 1941 Ten Gentlemen from West Point 1942 China Girl 1942 Wing and a Prayer 1944 The House on 92nd Street 1945 The Dark Corner 1946 Kiss of Death 1947 13 Rue Madeleine 1947 Call Northside 777 1948 Down to the Sea in Ships 1949 The Black Rose 1950 The Desert Fox The Story of Rommel 1951 Fourteen Hours 1951 Rawhide 1951 Diplomatic Courier 1952 O Henry s Full House 1952 Niagara 1953 Garden of Evil 1954 Prince Valiant 1954 The Bottom of the Bottle 1956 23 Paces to Baker Street 1956 Legend of the Lost director amp producer 1957 From Hell to Texas 1958 Woman Obsessed 1959 Seven Thieves 1960 North to Alaska director amp producer 1960 How the West Was Won the segments that he directed are The Rivers The Plains and The Outlaws 1962 Circus World 1964 The Sons of Katie Elder 1965 Nevada Smith director amp producer 1966 The Last Safari 1967 5 Card Stud 1968 True Grit 1969 Airport some winter outdoor scenes only 1970 Raid on Rommel 1971 Shoot Out 1971 Hangup 1974 References Edit Hollywood Star Walk Henry Hathaway Los Angeles Times Retrieved July 20 2013 a Born March 13 1898 in Sacramento California Kingdom of Hawaii Treaty with Belgium 1862 hawaiiankingdom org BECALMED HOLLYWOOD SHAKES OUT HER SAILS New York Times July 29 1934 ProQuest 101195511 Eyman p 6 Eyman p 6 Eyman p 7 Eyman p 10 HESTON KEPT BUSY IN 4 SCREEN ROLES New York Times August 23 1954 p 2 Eyman p 12 John Smith Biography tonygill co uk Retrieved October 11 2012 Eyman p 12 Eyman p 12Notes EditEyman Scott September October 1974 I made movies an interview with Henry Hathaway Take One p 6 10 External links EditHenry Hathaway at IMDb Henry Hathaway at Find a Grave Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Henry Hathaway amp oldid 1158797528, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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