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64 DGA QUARTERLY THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX (1939) > "There was no way that Jack Warner would entrust a picture of this magnitude to any other director than Curtiz," Rode writes. And although there were clashes aplenty between star Bette Davis and Curtiz, what the two shared, assures Rode, "was a burning desire to make the best picture possible."