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Rouben Zachary Mamoulian (/ r uː ˈ b ɛ n m ɑː m uː l ˈ j ɑː n / roo-BEN mah-mool-YAHN; Armenian: Ռուբէն Մամուլեան; October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987) was an American film and theater director.
Rouben Mamoulian was a Georgian-born American theatrical and motion-picture director noted for his contribution to the development of cinematic art at the beginning of the sound era. His achievements included the skillful blending of music and sound effects with an imaginative visual rhythm.
Rouben Mamoulian. Director: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Rouben Mamoulian was born on 8 October 1897 in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was a director and writer, known for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Applause (1929) and Becky Sharp (1935).
Feb 13, 2007 · Mamoulian often displays a tendency to isolate and “present” his influences, remarking upon his cleverness afterwards. Sternberg mixes these elements up, rendering them in a more innately cinematic, and explicitly critical, fashion (see, for example, the use of classical music and religious art in The Scarlet Empress, 1934).
Such is the case of Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987), an immeasurably talented director who glided high, at a remarkable pinnacle of artistic and commercial success, throughout the Thirties and Forties yet has been granted only a minor footnote in dominant histories of the studio era, often reduced to an Icarus-inspired cautionary tale. For his ...
Dec 6, 1987 · Rouben Zachary Mamoulian was born on Oct. 8, 1897, in Tiflis, the capital of Soviet Georgia. His father, Zachary, was a bank president and his mother, the former Virginia Kalantarian, was the ...
Rouben Mamoulian. Director: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Rouben Mamoulian was born on 8 October 1897 in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was a director and writer, known for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Applause (1929) and Becky Sharp (1935).
