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James Cruze (born Jens Cruz Bosen; March 27, 1884 – August 3, 1942) was a silent film actor and film director. James Cruze is best known today among film buffs as the director of the epic silent Western The Covered Wagon.
May 7, 2024 · James Cruze Productions folded in 1931, but in 1932 Cruze scored with Washington Merry-Go-Round, a political drama starring Lee Tracy as an idealistic congressman. He also directed one of the episodes in Paramount’s all-star showcase If I Had a Million (1932).
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View full company info for James Cruze Productions. 1. The Great Gabbo (1929) Passed | 92 min | Drama, Musical, Romance. 6.0. Rate this. An insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist.
On July 18, 1927 Cruze filed incorporation papers for his own company, James Cruze Productions, capitalized for $10,000. Later, he formed a related company, James Cruze, Inc., which intended to make five pictures each year and release them through the DeMille-P.D.C-Pathé organization.
This being a Hughes production, the sight of a skinny-dipping Renée Adorée, rather than a social statement against vigilante terrorism, was likely the production’s primary motivation. But it still carried Cruze’s signature in the credits, the mark of an artist in search of a project—and a patron—worthy of him.
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James Cruze. Actor: The Covered Wagon. Coming from a Mormon family in Utah, James Cruze was reportedly part Ute Indian. He worked as a fisherman to pay his way through drama school. Among his former wives were actresses Betty Compson (also from Utah) and Marguerite Snow.
