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Harry Beaumont (10 February 1888 – 22 December 1966) was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He worked for a variety of production companies including Fox , Goldwyn , Metro , Warner Brothers , and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
Harry Beaumont. Director: The Broadway Melody. Born in Abilene, KS, in 1888, Harry Beaumont started his show-business career early--he quit school to become an actor in a traveling stock company, and eventually made his way to the New York stage.
Harry Beaumont. Director: The Broadway Melody. Born in Abilene, KS, in 1888, Harry Beaumont started his show-business career early--he quit school to become an actor in a traveling stock company, and eventually made his way to the New York stage. In 1912 he began working as a film actor for Edison studios--which was headquartered across the river in New Jersey--in everything from two-reel shorts to serials, and also began writing...
Harry Beaumont (February 10, 1888 – December 22, 1966) was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He worked for a variety of production companies including Fox, Goldwyn, Metro, Warner Brothers, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Beaumont's greatest successes were during the silent film era, when he directed films including John Barrymore's ...
Feb 4, 2023 · Watch the 1937 Hollywood Comedy film When's Your Birthday directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Joe E. Brown, Marian Marsh, Fred Keating.Some shady charact...
Feb 10, 2024 · Harry Beaumont (1888-1966) is not regarded today as a great cinematic auteur, and perhaps he shouldn’t be in terms of such matter as camera placement, shot composition, and so forth (and to be fair, he started directing back in the cinematic Dark Ages). But perhaps he ought to be given a second look at to WHAT he shot, the stories he told, for these seem to coalesce into a voice.
Harry Beaumont was a prolific, versatile director during the 1920s and '30s who worked for some of the biggest production companies in Hollywood including Fox, Goldwyn, Metro, Warner Brothers, and MGM. As a young man, he left school to join a stock company, eventually ending up on the New York vaudeville stage.
