The Many Cinemas of Michael CurtizDirector Michael Curtiz was the mastermind behind some of the most iconic films of classical HollywoodCasablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Sea Hawk, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce, to name only a few. The most prolific and consistently successful Hollywood generalist with an all embracing interest in different forms of narrative and spectacle, Curtiz made around a hundred films in an astonishing range of genres: action, biopics, melodramas film