DGA Quarterly | Volume II, Number 2 - Summer 2006 - click here to return to Table of Contents
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Confederate Con Men: Rowland V. Lee (bottom left) directing Jack Oakie (in top hat), Edward Arnold and Frances Farmer in The Toast of New York (1937), based on the life of Civil War-era speculator James Fisk. - photo courtesy Photofest - click images for larger views and IMDB information
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Going Up: Henry King (with glasses) directing the 1937 melodrama Seventh Heaven with James Stewart and Simone Simon (left) about a Parisian sewer worker who rescues a prostitute from the police. - DGA Archives
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French Kiss: Rouben Mamoulian’s stylish and technically innovative musical fantasy, Love Me Tonight (1932), featured Jeanette MacDonald as a haughty princess courted by a Paris tailor (Maurice Chevalier). - DGA Archives
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Emotion Pictures: Frank Borzage (far left), a two-time Oscar winner, gets the most out of a love scene in the rain between Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1932). - DGA Archives .
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Indians Ahead: Stagecoach (1939) was John Ford’s first sound Western and helped elevate the genre above shoot-’em-ups between good guys and bad guys. It also made John Wayne a star. - photo courtesy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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High Flying: Howard Hawks’ unsentimental adventure Only Angels Have Wings (1939) featured his typical hardened professionals, with Cary Grant as a mail pilot in South America and Rita Hayworth as his ex-girlfriend. - photo courtesy Photofest
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Changing Places: Frank Tuttle’s musical, All the King’s Horses (1934), about a singer who swaps places with a king and then falls for his wife, featured seamless special effects (Carl Brisson played both parts) and Oscar-nominated choreography. - photo courtesy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Backstage: A comedic Marion Davies plays a Georgia beauty who comes to Hollywood to be a star in Show People (1928), King Vidor’s last silent film. - photo courtesy Photofest
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Starry-Eyed: William Wellman was nominated for a directing Oscar for the first filmed version of A Star Is Born (1937), this one with Janet Gaynor as the ingénue and Fredric March as her has-been husband. - photo courtesy Photofest
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Seriously Funny: Paramount contract director Edward A. Sutherland on the set of International House (1933), a cavalcade of music and comedy acts including Burns and Allen, Rudy Vallee, W.C. Fields and Cab Calloway performing “Reefer Man.” - photo courtesy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Calling the Shot: Lewis Milestone with the great cinematographer James Wong Howe and production designer William Cameron Menzies directing a scene from the wartime drama North Star (1943). - photo courtesy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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