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Biographies Of Film Directors
ADOLFI, John G. E. Xew York Cit}'.
He has been in the film business for six years, dividing his time between stage and screen productions. He has established a great partnership with George Arliss and has directed the last four of that star's films.
Directed : In the Headlines (Warner), Evidence (Warner), Dumbbells in Ermine (Warner), Fame (Warner), Penny Arcade (Warner), Letters (Warner), College Lovers (F.N.), Recaptured Love (Warner), Sinner's Holiday (Warner), The Millionaire (Warner), Alexander Hamilton (Warner), The Silent Voice (Warner), Compromised (F.N.), A Successful Calamity (Warner), We Three (F.N.).
ARCHAINBAUD, George. B. Paris,
France, May 7, 1890. Brown and grey
hair, brown eyes. Ht 5 ft. 11 in. Wt.
13 St. Ed. University, Paris. M.
Katherine R. Johnston.
Has been connected with the screen for
seventeen years. Previously an actor and
stage manager on the European stage.
Became a film director in Hollywood in
1915 with World Films. Has also worked
for Fox, First National, Tiffany and
Columbia. Now has contract with Radio.
One of his most notable works is The Lost
Squadron (Radio, 1932).
Also Directed : Framed (Radio), Silver Horde (Radio), Shooting Straight (Radio), Men of Chance (Radio), Broadway Hoofer (Col), Lawful Larceny (Radio), Lady Refuses (Radio), Three Who Loved (Radio), Cardigan's Last Case (Radio), Peirguht Pool Mystery (Radio).
ARZNER, Dorothy. B. San Francisco, California, 1900. Brown hair, blue eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 4 in. Wt. 7 st. 4 lb. Ed. Westlake School for Girls ; University of Southern California. Daughter of the proprietor of a small cafe in Hollywood. In her early days she used to wait on such people as Charlie Chaplin and David Wark Griffith. During the war she drove an ambulance, and afterwards decided to try for a job in motion pictures. In 1920 William de Mille got her a job as a script typist. She was soon promoted to the cutting department and was chief cutter on Blood and Sand (Para, 1922), one of Rudolph Valentino's greatest films. She also did the cutting for the Covered Wagon (Para, 1923). It was her work then which took her straight to the director's chair.
Directed : Fashions for Women (Para), Ten Modern Commandments (Para), Get, Your Man (Para), Manhattan Cocktail' (Para), Wild Party (Para), Anybody's' Woman (Para), Sarah and Son (Para),i Paramount on Parade (Para), Honour Among Lovers (Para), Working Girls (Para), Merrily ive go to .' (Para).
ASQUITH, Anthony. B. London, 1902. Fair hair, blue eyes. Son of the late Lord Oxford and Asquith, who wa3 Prime Minister, 1908-1916. Ed. Winchester ; Balliol College, Oxford. Is one of the most far-seeing directorsi in British pictures. Joined British In-t structional Films in 1926. His first filmi for that compan}'. Shooting Stars (1928),, created a sensation. Transferred to Gainsborough, 1932.
Also Directed ; Underground (B.I.F.),