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HENHY HATHAWAY (Paramount Director)
The career of Henry Hathaway reads like an Alger story, for his is the saga of a hoy who, without friends, money or influence, began at the very bottom of the motion picture business and advanced to the position of one of the most important directors in the industry.
Hathaway' s first contact ;ith things dramatic came when he was 8 years old, and he was engaged as a child actor by Allan Dwan, with the Old American Film Co., in 1908. The company worked on the Mexican Border and produced a picture a day, five days a week, resting only over the week-ends.
When he was 14 years old he went to Universal as a property boy. He remained there until he was 17, working the last year as e juvenile actor. In 1918 he left the studio to join the army, and became an instructor in the enlisted specialists' school at Fort Winfield Scott in San Francisco, teaching gunnery. Upon his release from military service he spent a year traveling on the road for a firm of certified public accountants, but he tired of the work and in 1921 went to the Goldwyn studio to work as property man for Frank Lloyd.
After a year he came to Paramount, at which studio he has worked ever since, with the exception of one brief intervrl. His first work as an assistant director Was with the late Paul Bern, who became his best friend and mentor. In 1930, he yielded to his life-long ambition to travel end made a two year trip around the world. He hcd discussed with Bern the idea of building a motion picture around a religious pilgrimage to India.
In the course of his world cruise, seeking always the out of the v.ay spots, he bought an old car and spent nine months following r prilgriijage across India. He v.rote tie story of this unusual and colorful theme, but as a result of Paul Bern's de??th the Picture never hrs been produced.
His greatest interest in life, aside from work, and his associates know him to be indefatigable, in tr? V6l — and his thrift is prompted by the desire to mass money for more expeditions to strange p rts of the globe.