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WHO'S WHO IN HOLLYWOOD
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JACK L. WARNER
EDWARD F. CLINE
W a r n e r's vicepresident in charge of production, under whose regime company has pioneered scores of innovat i o n s , developed new b i g names. Level headed, makes quick decisions, knows his public. Started as small theater operator, learned the
show business from the ground up and never stopped for breath till he made the grade. First experience in Hollywood was in short comedies with Al St. John. Knows every phase of film-making and selling. Has uncanny sense of possible audience reaction to scenes. Does final editing on every picture that bears his firm's name. Usually calm and unruffled, conducts the mammoth task of producing GO pictures a year without fuss or flurry. Plain, unassuming in manner, a good mixer. A natural go-getter, on a grand scale.
WILLIAM LE BARON
Managing direc tor of production fci Paramount and a former editor of Collier's. Born in Elgin, 111., and a graduate of New York University. Was general manager of Cosmopolitan Film Productions five years. Became associate producer for Famous Players-Lasky in 1924, for three years. In 1927, he went to Hollywood as F.B.O. producer. Became vicepresident in charge of production for Radio when that studio absorbed F.B.O. In 1932 he joined Paramount as associate producer and made "She Done Him Wrong," "I'm No Angel," Mae West hits. Produced "Cimarron," "Humoresque," "Beau Geste," "College Humor." Authored such famed Broadway musical shows and dramas as well-remembered "Apple Blossoms," "Her Regiment," "The Love Letter." Has siring of race horses. Likes golf, tennis.
Paramount supervisor. Born in Kenosha, Wis., Nov. 4, 1892. A trouper with traveling shows at 11. Schooling included spell at a Lake Forest, IlL, military academy. To I California with a show which went I broke, whereupon | he conceived the i idea of opening a
song shop in Long Beach. It failed. Next an extra job at Paramount. Later became a Keystone Kop. Originated the famous Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties! Directed first pictures of Buster Keaton, Jackie Coogan, Baby Peggy, Wheeler and Woolsey, Charlie Ruggles and Irene Dunne! Affiliations: Fox, Columbia, Sol Lesser, RKO, Universal, Warner, Paramount. Signed to present studio position in May, 1935.
MERVYN LE ROY
Producer of Mervyn LeRoy Productions for Warners and a picture maker who has directed an outstanding feature in well nigh every cycle. As a boy, sold papers outside the eld Alcazar in Frisco. Got a small part in "Barbara Frietchie" and won applause by accidentally falling out of a tree. Made the grade in vaudeville in the act "Two Boys at a Piano." Attracted by the promise of the movies, went into the Lasky wardrobe department at S12.50 a week. Met Al Green and wheedled him into a bit in "Ghost Breaker." Suggested several good gags and Green kept him on. At First National, talked his way into a job as director. His first assignment was "No Place to Go." The rest is history. Young, keen, natural showman, resourceful and progressive.
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