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Dudley Bowles Murphy (July 10, 1897 – February 22, 1968) was an American film director. Early life. Murphy was born on July 10, 1897, in Winchester, Massachusetts, to the artists Caroline Hutchinson (Bowles) Murphy (1868-1923) and Hermann Dudley Murphy (1867-1945), both accomplished Modernist landscape painters.
Dudley Murphy was born on 10 July 1897 in Winchester, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Stocks and Blondes (1928), High Speed Lee (1923) and ...One Third of a Nation... (1939).
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- Winchester, Massachusetts, USA
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- Mexico City, Mexico
Dudley Murphy was born on 10 July 1897 in Winchester, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Stocks and Blondes (1928), High Speed Lee (1923) and ...One Third of a Nation... (1939). He was married to Katharine Hawley and Virginia. He died on 22 February 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico.
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- February 22, 1968
Dudley Bowles Murphy (July 10, 1897 – February 22, 1968) was an American film director. In his first short film, Soul of the Cypress (1921), a variation on the Orpheus myth, the film's protagonist falls in love with a dryad (a wood nymph whose soul dwells in an ancient tree) and throws himself into the sea to become immortal and spend ...
Black and Tan: Directed by Dudley Murphy. With Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Fredi Washington, Hall Johnson Choir. Duke Ellington in a jazz musical short with a tragic plotline.
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- 1929-12-08
Dudley Murphy (1897–1968) was one of early Hollywood’s most intriguing figures. Active from the 1920s through the 1940s, Murphy was one of the industry’s first independents and a guiding intelligence behind some of the key films in early twentieth-century cinema.
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Learn about the life and career of Dudley Murphy, a filmmaker who collaborated with Bessie Smith, William Faulkner, and Man Ray, and who reinvented himself as a hotelier. Explore his films, from Ballet mécanique to Dracula, and his cultural connections in Greenwich Village, Paris, and Hollywood.
