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| Walter
Lang
1896 - 1972 |
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. The director Walter Lang began his film career as a clerk for a film production company. He worked his way up from an assistance director to a main director in the next years and with the movie "The Red Kimona" (25) he realised his first movie as a director. Afterwards he shot other movies like "The Earth Woman" (26), "The Ladybird" (27), "Sally in Our Alley" (27), "Alice Through a Looking Glass" (28) and "The Spirit of Youth" (29). After a brief and unsuccessful try to establish himself as an artist in painting in Paris he returned to the film business and he realised numerous movies in the 30s like "Hello Sister" (30), "The Big Fight" (30), "Hell Bound" (31), "Meet the Baron" (33), "The Mighty Barnum" (34), "Top of the Town" (37) and "The Little Princess" (39) with Shirley Temple in the leading role. He was signed by 20th Century-Fox since the middle of the 30's and he became well-known as a director of the very popular musical movies of that time which represented the main success of 20th Century-Fox in the 40s and 50s. To his well-known movies of those decades belong "Star Dust" (40), "Tin Pan Alley" (40), "Moon Over Miami" (41), "Coney Island" (43), "Greenwich Village" (44), "Sentimental Journey" (46), "When My Baby Smiles at Me" (48), "Cheaper by the Dozen" (50), "On the Riviera" (51), "Call Me Madam" (53), "There's No Business Like Show Business" (54), "The King and I" (56) and "But Not for Me" (59). His last movies came at the beginning of the 60s into being, afterwards he retired from the film business. His last movies were "Can-Can" (60) and "Snow White and the Three Stooges" (61). Walter Lang was married with the actress Madalynne Field. Their son
Richard Lang became a movie director too.
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