The Vaudeville of Michael Curtiz
December 24 is the birthday of the great film director Michael Curtiz (Mihály Kertész, 1886-1962). Curtiz was born to Jewish parents in Budapest, in what was then Austria-Hungary. His birth name was Manó Kaminer; he changed it to Mihály Kertész as a young man in order to sound more Hungarian, then changed it once again to sound […]