Biographies of Paramount Players and Directors (1936)

Record Details:

Title:
Biographies of Paramount Players and Directors
Date:
1936
Volume:
Biographies of Paramount Players and Directors 1936-1937
Leaf #:
000111
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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4>% future existed not in acting, but in the technical side of the film business. Accordingly j he became assistant director and was sent to Hollywood, where he worked on a series of pictures. After this engagement, he was. sent to Boston by a conparLy making a series of two-reel detective dramas. Hall directed 14 of the series. He then wont to New York and joined Paramount, for which he co-directed with Henry Kol ^r a series of pictures starring Alice Brad; . Hall and Kolker were sent to London the following year and directed a picture there and upon its completion remained abroad to direct tv/o others. When Hall returned to America, he became assistant director on Barbara La Marrfs "Sandra". After three days of production, trouble ceveloped between the director and the studio, with the result that Hall was given authority to complete the picture. He regained with the La Llarr unit until the star»s death. It was then that Hall t-u-ned to cutting pictures. After editing several productions, he was appointed head of the cutting department of First National which position he occupied until the studio amalgamated with V/arner Brothers when he found himself out of work. Paramount immediately employed him as film editor. Hi a opportunity in the directorial end came when he was assigned to assist on "Dancers in tLo Dark", later assuming complete direction of "Sinners in the sun". As a result of his work on thi3 picture, he was given a contract us a paramount director. Some of his more recent productions are: Shirley Temple's "Little Kiss Marker", Mue '.7est»s "Now I'm A Lady", ".Ainapolis Farewell'1.