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Born January 24, 1886 • Virginia
Died June 29, 1982 (aged 96) • California
Notable Works “A Bell for Adano” • “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” • “David and Bathsheba” • “In Old Chicago” • “Jesse James” • “Lloyd’s of London” • “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” • “Margie” • “Marie Galante” • “Prince of Foxes” • “Ramona” • “Seventh Heaven” • “Stanley and Livingstone” • “State Fair” • “Tender Is the Night” • “The Bravados” • “The Country Doctor” • “The Gunfighter” • “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” • “The Song of Bernadette” • “The Sun Also Rises” • “Twelve O’Clock High” • “Untamed” • “Wilson”

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King, Henry
Lillian Gish
Tyrone Power in Alexander's Ragtime Band
Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette
scene from Twelve O'Clock High
Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones in Carousel
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American director
Journey to the Center of the Earth
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American director
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Boys Town
Norman Taurog
American director
Anthony Mann
American director
Sturges, John
John Sturges
American director
scene from Footlight Parade
Busby Berkeley
American director
Robert Z. Leonard
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John Ford
John Ford
American director
Roy Del Ruth
American filmmaker
Peckinpah, Sam
Sam Peckinpah
American director
Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse
American choreographer and director
Stanley Donen
American film and dance director
Rouben Mamoulian.
Rouben Mamoulian
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George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
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Charles Vidor
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John Wayne
John Wayne
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lobby card for The Comedy of Terrors
Jacques Tourneur
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