![]() ![]() He had also once borne the name Mihály Kertész, and before that Emmanuel Kaminer. Although he was in charge of what may be the most treasured film ever made in Hollywood, there was still confusion at his studio whether his name was spelled “Curteese,” “Curtess,” or even “Curtis.” Some people never quite grasped Curtiz’s English, wrapped up as it was in his flamboyant Hungarian accent. No one on the Warner Brothers project received as much as its director, Michael Curtiz-he made $73,400. ![]() The producer, Hal Wallis, took away $52,000 Humphrey Bogart received $36,667 and for loaning Ingrid Bergman for the picture, her proprietor David O. Six writers were paid for script work on Casablanca, and in total they received $47,281. So it’s valuable to note the insouciant flexibility of Michael Curtiz, the Captain Renault (that’s Claude Rains in Casablanca) of movie directors. ![]() And now…well, directors have to be all things. Next, he or she was raised to the status of auteur, artist, or genius. First, it was someone who hardly existed then, a mighty egotist later a professional in charge of a factory product. We used to think we knew what a film director was. Michael Curtiz directing Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman on the set of Casablanca, 1942 ![]()
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