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Cummings was known for the big splashy 1930s Technicolor musicals with popular leading ladies such as Betty Grable, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, and Shirley Temple (Little Miss Broadway, 1938) he directed at 20th Century Fox. He retired in 1954.
Irving Cummings. Director: Curly Top. New York-born Irving Cummings began his career as an actor on the Broadway stage in his late teens, and appeared with the legendary Lillian Russell's company. He entered films in 1909 as an actor, and became a very popular leading man in the early 1920s.
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- New York City, New York, USA
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Irving Cummings (born October 9, 1888, New York, New York, U.S.—died April 18, 1959, Los Angeles, California) was an American film director best known for his musicals, many of which featured Betty Grable or Shirley Temple.
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Irving Cummings (October 9, 1888 – April 18, 1959) was an American movie actor and director. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Close. Career. Born in New York City, Cummings started his acting career at age 16 in Diplomacy. His Broadway, performances included In the Long Run (1909) and Object -- Matrimony (1916).
New York-born Irving Cummings began his career as an actor on the Broadway stage in his late teens, and appeared with the legendary Lillian Russell's company. He entered films in 1909 as an actor, and became a very popular leading man in the early 1920s.
- October 9, 1888
- April 18, 1959
Irving Cummings is known as an Director, Actor, Producer, Scenario Writer, Writer, and Story. Some of his work includes Curly Top, In Old Arizona, Down Argentine Way, That Night in Rio, Poor Little Rich Girl, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, Belle Starr, and Behind That Curtain.
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Film director and performer. The former silent screen actor directed over seventy features, including fifteen musicals mostly at 20th Century-Fox with the studio's biggest stars, from Shirley Temple to ... From: Cummings, Irving in The Oxford Companion to the American Musical ». Subjects: Music.
