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Henry Koster: Movie
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Koster was introduced to cinema about 1910 when his uncle opened a very early movie theater in Berlin. Koster's mother played the piano to accompany the films, leaving the young boy to occupy himself by watching the films. After working initially as a short story writer, Koster was subsequently hired by a Berlin movie company as scenarist, became assistant to director Curtis Bernhardt. Bernhardt became sick one day and asked Koster to take over as director. In about 1931 or 1932, Koster directed two or three films in Berlin for UFA.
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The Bishop's Wife is a 1947 movie directed by Henry Koster and based on the Richard Nathan novel of the same name. The film won an Academy Award for is sound recording and was ... nominated for Best Picture, director, editing, and musical score. Cary Grant starred as Dudley, an angel sent to guide Episcopalian Bishop, Henry Brougham who has lost sight of what really matters. Dudley wins over everyone including Henry's wife, Julia (Loretta Young), all except Henry who believes Dudley is trying to replace him in his family and work. The movie was remade in 1996 as The Preacher's Wife starring Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington.
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Diana Durbin, then a 14-year-old ingénue, was in the movie, and Koster, who didn't yet speak English, coached her. Soon after, it was Koster who discovered Abbot and Costello in a New York Nightclub. He got them their first movie, One Night in the Tropics -- where they first did their famous Who's on First? routine in film.
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In an interview years later, Koster recalled his casting of Elisabeth Mueller, a beautiful Swiss actress who had appeared in a handful of German movies and was making her Hollywood debut. "Her character was running an office of Jewish refugees in London," said Koster. "I was interested in that because I had gone through that, and experienced quite a bit of the consequences of Hitler's dictatorship in Europe.
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"Dad had a bad temper," Koster's son, Robert, says, "He was directing a movie in Berlin in 1933 when a Nazi SS officer said some very silly things relating to Dad's family and heritage. Dad knocked him out, and was forced to leave the country during his lunch hour."
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