My Favorite Directors

Listed below are my favorite directors and my favorite films that they created.  They are in no particular order after Gene Kelly.

1. Alfred Hitchcock

(North by Northwest, Rear Window, Vertigo)

2. Frank Capra

(It Happened One Night, Its a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)

3. Vincente Minnelli

(An American in Paris, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon)

4. Gene Kelly

(often teamed with Stanley Donen)

(Singin' in the Rain; On the Town; Hello, Dolly)

5. Billy Wilder

(Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, Double Indemnity)

6. Howard Hawks

(Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, His Girl Friday)

7. Michael Curtiz

(Casablanca, White Christmas, The Adventures of Robin Hood)

8. Buster Keaton

(The General; Sherlock, Jr.; The Navigator)

9. Victor Flemming

(Red Dust, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of OZ)

10. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

(Guys and Dolls, All About Eve, Cleopatra)