George Stevens implored his powerful friends, including Vernon Jordan and former Kennedy Center chairman Jim Johnson, to intercede with the board. Jordan declined to confirm or deny the request.

George Stevens Jr.: Well, he was — for me, this change of leaving Hollywood and having this invitation to come be part of the new frontier, Kennedy's most exciting time to be in government.

George Stevens Jr., the son of a legendary Hollywood director who joined his father in movie sets, then set off to make films of his own and later created the American Film Institute ...

George Stevens Jr. Looks Back on His Famous Director Dad – and His Own Work in Film (Guest Blog) “To see John F. Kennedy, in color, walk into a room, was much more memorable than meeting any ...

American Film Institute founder and Kennedy Center Honors creator George Stevens Jr. is adding another chapter to film history by donating hundreds of items spanning five generations of his family ...

George Stevens père also went to war, heading up the motion picture unit of the U.S. Army Signal Corps toward the end of World War II. In other words, ...

George Stevens Jr. was brought into the family business as a teenager when he worked as a production assistant on the 1953 Western classic “Shane,” which his father, George Stevens, was ...

Stevens, 87, is a member of one of Hollywood’s great families — he is the son of George Stevens, who won best director Oscars for 1951’s A Place in the Sun and 1956’s Giant, as well as a ...