第一次世界大战时期威廉·A·韦尔曼(William A. Wellman)(1896-1975)是空军飞行员。战后在波士顿从事羊毛事业。1919年到高尔温片厂当下级演员,后来升为副导演。他是一位属于万能型的导演,任何型态的电影他都能拍,特别是拍他有经验的航空片,更是拿手(第一届奥斯卡最佳金像奖就是他导...
戴维丝生于马萨诸塞的洛厄尔,尽管很小时贝蒂就梦想成为一名演员,但她早期努力的结果却不尽人意。她因被认为“不真诚”而被伊娃·勒葛琳的曼哈顿市剧团拒之门外。后来贝蒂被约翰·默里·安德森的戏剧学校录取,从此走上星途。蓓蒂的第一次正规舞台表演是在“百老汇内外” 中,而她的...
Hardie Albright's parents had a traveling vaudeville act, in which he made his stage debut at the age of six. He studied drama at Carnegie Tech and was a member of Eva Le Gallienne's repertory theater. He appeared in many Broadway plays before making his film debut in 1931. Appearing in over 50 films, Albright retired from acting in 1948 and took a position as a drama instructor at UCLA, where he authored several books on acting and directing.
They didn't come packaged any sweeter and lovelier than Anne Shirley, a gentle and gracious 1930s teen film actress who didn't quite reach the zenith of front-rank stardom and retired all too soon at age 26. On film as a toddler, she went through a small revolving door of marquee names before legally settling (at age 16) on the name Anne Shirley, the name of her schoolgirl heroine in Anne's most famous film of all -- Anne of Green Gables (1934).