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Flexible studio talent who began his career as a critic, becoming a scenarist in 1926 and a director in 1932. Leaving Germany the year Hitler took power, Koster made several films in Europe before going to Hollywood. His US debut with "Three Smart Girls" (1937), the first in a series of Deanna Durbin vehicles, was a resounding success and helped bolster the straitened Universal studios.

Koster is perhaps best known for the charming "Harvey" (1950), in which James Stewart played opposite an invisible six-foot rabbit; he also directed the rather stodgy but well-remembered "The Robe" (1953), notably primarily as the first film to be shot in CinemaScope....

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Filmography

100 Men and a Girl - ( Director / 2001 / Released / )
The Singing Nun - ( Director / 1966 / Released / )
Dear Brigitte - ( Director / 1965 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Dear Brigitte - ( Producer / 1965 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Take Her, She's Mine - ( Director / 1963 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Take Her, She's Mine - ( Producer / 1963 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation - ( Director / 1962 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Flower Drum Song - ( Director / 1961 / Released / Universal )
The Story of Ruth - ( Director / 1960 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
The Naked Maja - ( Director / 1959 / Released / )
My Man Godfrey - ( Director / 1957 / Released / )
D-Day the Sixth of June - ( Director / 1956 / Released / )
The Power and the Prize - ( Director / 1956 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
A Man Called Peter - ( Director / 1955 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Good Morning, Miss Dove - ( Director / 1955 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
The Virgin Queen - ( Director / 1955 / Released / )
Desiree - ( Director / 1954 / Released / )
O. Henry's Full House - ( Director / 1952 / Released / )
Harvey - ( Director / 1950 / Released / )
The Rage of Paris - ( Director / 1938 / Released / Universal )
First Love - ( Director / / Released / Universal )
Three Smart Girls - ( Director / / Released / )

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Flexible studio talent who began his career as a critic, becoming a scenarist in 1926 and a director in 1932. Leaving Germany the year Hitler took power, Koster made several films in Europe before going to Hollywood. His US debut with "Three Smart Girls" (1937), the first in a series of Deanna Durbin vehicles, was a resounding success and helped bolster the straitened Universal studios.

Koster is perhaps best known for the charming "Harvey" (1950), in which James Stewart played opposite an invisible six-foot rabbit; he also directed the rather stodgy but well-remembered "The Robe" (1953), notably primarily as the first film to be shot in CinemaScope.


Profession(s):
director, screenwriter, film critic, cartoonist, reporter, painter
Sometimes Credited As:
Hermann Kosterlitz
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Family
son:Robert J Koster
wife:Peggy Moran (married 1942)

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Education
Academy of Fine Arts Berlin, Germany
Milestones (Back to top)

1953 Directed first cinemascope movie "The Robe"
1937 US directing debut "Three Smart Girls"
1933 Moved to France
1932 Directing debut with "Das Abenteuer der Thea Roland"
1924 Screenwriting debut
Immigrated to USA via France

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