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Western (Genre) Film Directors: D. W. Griffith, Clint Eastwood, Fritz Lang, Howard Hawks, Cecil B. Demille, Sam Peckinpah, Allan Dwan
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-23.
ISBN 9781156712702
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: D. W. Griffith, Clint Eastwood, Fritz Lang, Howard Hawks, Cecil B. Demille, Sam Peckinpah, Allan Dwan, Fred Zinnemann, George Stevens, Raoul Walsh, John Ford, Samuel Fuller, William A. Wellman, Nicholas Ray, Walter Hill, Edwin Stanton Porter, Charles Marquis Warren, Robert Aldrich, Anthony Mann, Broncho Billy Anderson, William S. Hart, Henry Hathaway, Budd Boetticher, André de Toth, George Marshall, Ted Post, Delmer Daves, Ray Nazarro, John Sturges, Andrew Mclaglen, Wesley Ruggles, Monte Hellman, Burt Kennedy, Doug Atchison. Excerpt: Allan Dwan (April 3, 1885 December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian -born American motion picture director , producer and screenwriter.Early life Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto , Ontario , Canada , his family moved to the United States when he was 11 years old. At the University of Notre Dame, he trained as an engineer and began working for a lighting company in Chicago . However, he had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job. At that time, some of the East Coast movie makers began to spend winters in California where the climate allowed them to continue productions requiring warm weather. Soon, a number of movie companies worked there year-round and, in 1911, Dwan began working part time in Hollywood . While still in New York , in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association .Career After making a series of westerns and comedies, Dwan directed fellow Canadian Mary Pickford in several very successful movies as well as her husband, Douglas Fairbanks , notably in the acclaimed 1922 Robin Hood .Following the introduction of the talkies , in 1937 he directed child-star Sh
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