Biographies of Paramount Players and Directors (1936)

FRANK LLOYD (Taramount Producer) As the only three-time winner of Motion Picture Academy awards, Fr?nk Lloyd, newly signed Paramount producer, today stands at the head of the film industry as a creator of both spectacle and romance. Long identified in Hollywood for the scope and sweep of his pictures, Lloyd won the directional award for "Divine Lady" in 1928-29, and again for "Cavalcade" in 1S32-33, while "Mutiny on the Bounty," which he also directed, has just been chosen the best production of 193... These achievements are based on a solid knowledge of both the stage and screen. Lloyd became identified with the English theatre when only 15 years old. He has been in Hollywood for 23 years. Llcyd was born in Glasgo.. , Scotland, in Februa y, 1889, and was educated in the public schools of England. The theatre was an attraction for him from childhood, and except for a brief period spent in Canada the dramatic world h%B been Lloyd's whole life. The future director of spectacles interrupted his theatric tl work for a time to become a wire man for the Canadian government telephone company but he soon tired of this, and in 1913 he came to Hollywood. At that time Hollywood was little more than a sageb rush-covered subdivision on tht outskirts of Los Angeles, and the film industry was in Its swaddling clothes. Cecil B. DeMille had just made "The Squaw Man" in Hollywood, but most of the cinema companies were still centrred in the east. Lloyd entered screen production by writing and directing one-rvel pictures for Universal, and as his talents became known he graduated to the direction of features for Morosco-Pallas , Fox, Goldwyn, Joseph M. SchencK, Sol Lesser and First National. Concentrating of his preference for stories pith powerful dramatics Lloyd directed m my of Hollywood's most famous early-day successes. Wider recognition came to him in 1922 when "Oliver Twist," which he directed, was