Curtis Bernhardt

Curtis Bernhardt Kurt Bernhardt 15 April 1899 22 February 1981 was a German film director born in Worms Germany Some of his American films were called womans films including the Joan Crawford film Possessed 1947 Bernhardt trained as an actor in Germany and performed on the stage before starting as a film director in 1926 Other films include A Stolen Life 1946 starring Bette Davis and Sirocco 1951 starringHumphrey Bogart Bernhardt directed films in France and England before moving on to Hollywood to work for Warner Brothers in 1940 Bernhardt produced and directed his last Hollywood picture Kisses for My President 1964 about the nations first female Chief Executive starring Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray Description above from the Wikipedia article Curtis Bernhardt licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia