Show Business Collection (#7)

John Maxwell, chairman and managing director of British International Pictures, 1933. The company was founded by John Maxwell after he had purchased British National Studios

CM Woolf, British film producer, 1933

Sir Michael Balcon, British film producer, 1933. Balcon (1896-1977) is best known for his work with Ealing Studios. He worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Basil Dearden, Michael Relph

William K Howard, American film director, 1933
William K Howard (1899-1954), American film director, 1933

Sam Eckman Jr, head of the MGM organisation in Great Britain, 1933

Henry King, American film director, 1933. King (1886-1982) directed for the first time in 1915, and went on to become one of the most commercially successful Hollywood directors of the 1920s and 30s

Guy Reginald Bolton, British-born writer of Broadway musical comedies, 1933. Bolton (1894-1979) was a writer of Broadway musical comedies who frequently collaborated with PG Wodehouse

Dorothy Arzner, American film director, 1933. Arzner (1897-1979) was a pioneering director during the Golden Age of Hollywood, a period in which there were hardly any women directors

Henry Alexander MacRae, Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter, 1933. MacRae (1876-1944) worked on many film serials for Universal Studios

Merian Caldwell Cooper, American aviator, adventurer, director, screenwriter and producer, 1933. Coopers (1893-1973) most famous film was the 1933 movie King Kong

Frank Borzage, American film director, 1933. Borzage (1893-1962) was a director famed for his mystical romanticism. He won the first Best Director Academy Award for his picture Seventh Heaven (1927)

Robert Z Leonard, American film director, 1933. Leonard (1889-1968) was nominated for the Best Director Oscar twice, for The Divorcee (1930) and The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

George Archainbaud, French screen, stage actor, film and television and film director, 1933
George Archainbaud (1890-1959), French screen, stage actor, film and television and film director, 1933

Alfred J Goulding, Australian film director, 1933. Goulding (1896-1972) directed many films, mostly short comedies, in the 1920s and 1930s

Edmund Goulding, British film director, 1933. Goulding (1891-1959) was a stage actor and director in London before serving in World War I

William James Craft, American actor, cameraman and film director, (1933). Crafts (c1887-1931) Hollywod career began in 1915

Raoul Walsh, American film director, 1933. Walshs (1887-1980) directorial career began in 1914 and spanned 52 years. Amongst his films is The Big Trail (1930)

Harry Lachman, American artist, designer and film director, 1933. After establishing a reputation as a successful Post-Impressionist painter Lachman (1886-1975) began a career as a film director

Douglas Shearer, Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and director, 1933. The brother of the Hollywood film star Norma Shearer

John Malcolm Stahl, American film director and producer, 1933. Stahl (1886-1950) was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences established in 1927

Roy Del Ruth, American Hollywood film director, 1933. Ruth (1893-1961) started out as a screenwriter in 1915 writing gags for the comedian Mack Sennett, before directing motion pictures in the 1920s

Howard Estabrook, American screen writer, 1933. Estabrook (1884-1978) won an Oscar for Best Writing (Adaptation) for his screenplay for Cimarron (1931)

Beulah Marie Dix, American screen writer, 1933. Dix (1876-1970) was a prolific screenwriter in the silent movie era

Edwin J Burke, American screen writer and director, 1933
Edwin J Burke (1889-1944), American screen writer and director, 1933

Richard Boleslawski, Polish film director and actor, 1933. Boleslawski (1880-1937) emigrated to America after the Russian Revolution

Irving Asher, film producer and managing director of British projects for Warner Brothers, 1933
Irving Asher (1903-1985), film producer and managing director of British projects for Warner Brothers, 1933

Jack Raymond, British film director, 1933. Raymond (1886-1953) was a prolific director of British films in the 1920s and 1930s

Irving Thalberg, American film producer, 1933. Thalberg (1899-1936) was a producer during the early years of cinema. He was known as The Boy Wonder for his youth

Herbert Wilcox, British film producer, 1933
Herbert Wilcox (1890-1977), British film producer, 1933

Ernst Lubitsch, German-born Jewish film director, 1933. Lubitsch (1892-1947) emigrated to Hollywood in 1922

William C McGann, American film director, 1933
William C McGann (1893-1977), American film director, 1933

Diana Wynyard, British actress, 1933. Wynyard (1906-1964) was thought by many to be the equal as a stage actress of the more famous Peggy Ashcroft and Celia Johnson

Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn, English actors, 1933. Walls (1883-1949) was a popular English stage and motion-pictures character actor and film director

Barbara Stanwyck, American film and television actress, 1933. Stanwyck (1907-1990) starred in over 100 films before moving into television acting in the 1950s, winning three Emmy Awards

Ramon Novarro, Mexican actor, 1933. Novarro (1899-1968) was a Mexican actor who achieved fame as a Latin lover in silent films

Aline MacMahon, American actress, 1933. MacMahon (1899-1991) was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in Dragon Seed (1944)

Tom Mix, American film actor, 1933. Mix (1880-1940) was the star of many early Western films. He made a reported 336 features between 1910 and 1935, all but 9 of them silent

Elissa Landi, Italian born actress, 1933. Landi (1904-1948) was a popular star of Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. Rumoured to be a descendant of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria

Herbert Marshall, English actor, 1933. Marshall (1890-1966) was a popular English cinema and theatre actor who overcame the loss of a leg during World War I, to enjoy a long career

Lilian Harvey, English actress, 1933. Harvey (1906-1968) starred in many silent films made in Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s

Fredric March, American actor, 1933. March (1897-1975) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. He won the Best Actor Oscar for his performances in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1932)

Molly Lamont and Gene Gerrard, actors, 1933. Lamont (1910-2001) was a South African-born film actress and Gerrard (1892-1971) an English actor, director, and writer

Harold Lloyd, American actor and film maker, 1933. Lloyd (1893-1971) was most famous for his hugely successful and influential silent film comedies

Emil Jannings, Swiss actor, 1933. Jannings (1884-1950) was the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor, which he won for his performances in The Way of All Flesh and the Last Command (1928)

Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor, American actors, 1933. Farrell (1901-1990) was a notable American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s and later a television actor

Irene Dunne, American actress, 1933. Dunne (1898-1990) was a film actress of the 1930s and 1940s

Jack Hulbert, British actor, 1933. Hulbert (1892-1978) was one of the earliest famous members of the Cambridge Footlights

Marie Dressler, Canadian actress, 1933. After a theatre and vaudeville career Dressler (1868-1934) became one of Hollywoods top stars, despite being in her sixties

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