Prior to his premature death at age 45 in 1955, James Agee was our most artful composer of film criticism ... on movies than anyone else — was D.W. Griffith, who entered into this world on ...

Oscar-nominated writer, director, and producer Charles Shyer, known for films like Private Benjamin ... Guild of America and a collaborator with D.W. Griffith. He studied at UCLA before working ...

Shyer told Variety in a “Parent Trap” story in 2020, “This movie had ... s filmmaker father Melville was a founding member of the DGA who had worked with D.W. Griffith.

Meyers and Shyer married in 1980 and, for the next two decades, they established themselves as one of the most successful husband-and-wife creative teams in films ... likes of D.W. Griffith ...

She claimed to be an imposter hired by Griffith ... s father ran over his wife with the pony, disfiguring the pianist’s hands. He never drank again. (The story was made into a 1963 movie ...

In the span of five years pioneering director DW Griffith delivered some 450 films for the Biograph Company at a rate of two or three films per week One and two reels in length these works showed ...

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After the deeply divisive reception of “The Birth of a Nation,” director D.W. Griffith released ... hired to work on Griffith’s interracial romance film while a white actor plays the ...

Film director and producer D.W. Griffith, pictured in 1922. (Associated Press) "Unbroken Blossoms" introduces James B. Leong, who went on to write and direct the movie "Lotus Blossom" and act in ...

D.W. Griffith is one of Hollywood’s most controversial ... London and falls in love with the daughter of an abusive father. The film was a box office and critical hit, and famed Japanese ...

Despite this, DW Griffith continued to produce influential and innovative films during his career, and his legacy as one of the first major ... Griffith’s parents resided on a small farm, but after ...