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Alexander Hall is a Actor, Director, Assistant Director and Editor American born on 11 january 1894 at Boston (USA)

Alexander Hall

Alexander Hall
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Nationality USA
Birth 11 january 1894 at Boston (USA)
Death 30 july 1968 (at 74 years) at San Francisco (USA)

Alexander Hall (January 11, 1894, Boston, Massachusetts – July 30, 1968, San Francisco, California) was an American film director and theatre actor.

Biography

Hall acted in the theatre from the age of four through 1914, when he began to work in silent movies. Following his military service in World War I, he returned to Hollywood and pursued a career in film production. He worked as a film editor and assistant director at Paramount Pictures until 1932, when he directed his first feature film, Sinners in the Sun. From 1937 to 1947, he was a contract director at Columbia Pictures, where he earned a reputation for sophisticated comedies. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941).

Hall was married to actress Lola Lane from 1934 to 1936. He was engaged briefly to Lucille Ball, who left him when she met Desi Arnaz. The couple later hired him to direct their 1956 film Forever, Darling.

Hall died of complications from a stroke in San Francisco.

Best films

She Done Him Wrong (1933)
(Editor)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
(Director)
The Song of the Flame (1930)
(Editor)

Usually with

Viola Lawrence
Viola Lawrence
(11 films)
Irving Bacon
Irving Bacon
(7 films)
Edward Gargan
Edward Gargan
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alexander Hall (55 films)

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Actor

The Million Dollar Mystery
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Florence La Badie, Marguerite Snow, James Cruze, Frank Farrington, Sidney Bracey, Lila Chester
Rating60% 3.0067953.0067953.0067953.0067953.006795
A prologue for The Million Dollar Mystery introduced the characters and groups. After the opening title card shows "hundreds of hands" grasping for the money and then a shot of the check for $10,000 the solver of the mystery is shown prior to the beginning of the first reel. Baby Florence is left at a boarding school with a note and half a bracelet instructing that her father will come to take her back upon her eighteenth birthday. Hargreaves, here played by Alfred Norton, is chased by the Black Hundred, but he receives a note and money before attempting to escape by balloon on the top of a building. The balloon is shot down and the first chapter ends.

Director

Forever, Darling
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, James Mason, Louis Calhern, John Emery, Natalie Schafer
Rating60% 3.001893.001893.001893.001893.00189
After five years of marriage, chemical engineer Lorenzo Xavier Vega (Arnaz) tends to neglect his wife Susan (Ball) in favor of his work. When she wishes aloud that she had a more attentive spouse, her Guardian Angel—coincidentally the mirror image of her favorite movie star (Mason) -- appears.
Let's Do It Again, 1h35
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Jane Wyman, Ray Milland, Aldo Ray, Leon Ames, Valerie Bettis, Tom Helmore
Rating57% 2.854122.854122.854122.854122.85412
Broadway philandering composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) discovers to his outrage that while he was taking a brief holiday from his marriage to Constance Stuart (Jane Wyman), she spent an evening in a "country inn" with rival composer Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). Connie points out the impropriety of Gary's own behavior with dancer Lilly Adair (Valerie Bettis), yet when he agrees with her suggestion to consult a lawyer, she is regretful, and the couple get a divorce.
Because You're Mine, 1h43
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Doretta Morrow, James Whitmore, Dean Miller, Bobby Van, Rita Corday, Jeff Donnell
Rating60% 3.001673.001673.001673.001673.00167
Opera singer superstar Renato Rossano (Mario Lanza) is drafted into the U.S. Army. His Sergeant, "Bat" Batterson (James Whitmore) is an opera fan who admires Rossano and wishes Rossano to appraise his sister's (Doretta Morrow) singing voice. The rest of his platoon as well as the company commander disapproves of Batterson's showing favourtism to Rossano by excusing him from normal training. Rossano also schemes to have Master Sgt Batterson allow him to go to New York supposedly to have his manager appraise Batterson's sister, Brigit's singing voice but in reality allowing him to do a performance.
Louisa
Louisa (1950)
, 1h30
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Charles Coburn, Ronald Reagan, Spring Byington, Edmund Gwenn, Ruth Hussey, Piper Laurie
Rating66% 3.3391553.3391553.3391553.3391553.339155
Grandma Louisa (Spring Byington) begins dating grocer Henry Hammond (Edmund Gwenn), much to the disgust of her son Hal (Ronald Reagan) and the rest of the family. To make matters worse, Hal’s boss, Mr. Burnside (Charles Coburn), also becomes a rival for Louisa’s affections.
Love That Brute, 1h26
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Paul Douglas, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Keenan Wynn, Joan Davis, Laurette Luez
Rating62% 3.1408253.1408253.1408253.1408253.140825
In 1928 Chicago, two gangsters kill a store owner. Mobster Big Ed (Paul Douglas) sends top henchman Bugsy Welch (Keenan Wynn) to place a white carnation -- his trademark -- on the corpses, to suggest that he is responsible. The police rush to arrest Big Ed, only to find out that he has an alibi. He has been in the park, where Big Ed encounters Ruth Manning (Jean Peters), a country girl who came to Chicago to be a singer, but is now a children's governess.
The Great Lover, 1h20
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Roland Young, Roland Culver, Gary Gray, George Reeves
Rating64% 3.2453853.2453853.2453853.2453853.245385
When the American business tycoon Williams is murdered by strangulation in Paris, the killer is identified almost instantly because of the signature napkin knot found around the victims throat - the signature of notorious cardplaying killer C.J. Dabney. Despite the identification, the American detective Higgins pleads to the French police not to try to apprehend the perpetrator, because he wants to catch Dabney red-handed if possible. Just like Hiigins guesses, Dabney soon finds a new victim, a newspaperman from Ohio, Freddie Hunter. Freddie is in Paris escorting a band of boy scouts - the Boy Foresters, but plans to stay longer in France by missing the boat ride home to the U.
Down to Earth, 1h41
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Musical films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Rita Hayworth, Roland Culver, Larry Parks, James Gleason, Marc Platt, Edward Everett Horton
Rating60% 3.0494253.0494253.0494253.0494253.049425
Hayworth stars as the Muse Terpsichore who is annoyed that popular Broadway producer Danny Miller (Parks) is putting on a play which portrays the Muses as man-crazy tarts fighting for the attention of a pair of Air Force pilots who crashed on Mount Parnassus (in mythology, the Muses lived on Mount Helicon). She asks permission from Mr. Jordan to go to Earth and fix the play. Jordan agrees and sends Messenger 7013 (Horton) to keep an eye on her.
She Wouldn't Say Yes, 1h27
Directed by Alexander Hall
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Rosalind Russell, Lee Bowman, Adele Jergens, Charles Winninger, Harry Davenport, Sara Haden
Rating61% 3.098113.098113.098113.098113.09811
A psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Lane, is leaving a military psychiatric hospital after spending two weeks there. Before she leaves, she encounters a patient reading a comic strip by Michael Kent. The comic's character, the Nixie, encourages people to act on their impulses by whistling in their ear. Dr. Lane explains to the patient that it's not good to act on their impulses. Colonel Brady, another psychiatrist, mentions to Dr. Lane that her confidence as a professional comes from some problem that she has repressed.
The Heavenly Body, 1h35
Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Arthur Hornblow Jr., Alexander Hall, Harry Kurnitz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, James Craig, Fay Bainter, Henry O'Neill, Spring Byington
Rating61% 3.0500853.0500853.0500853.0500853.050085
A neglected wife turns to an astrologer, who tells her she will meet and fall in love with a handsome stranger, much to the dismay of her astronomer husband.
Once Upon a Time, 1h29
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about children, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson, William Demarest, John Abbott
Rating60% 3.0491153.0491153.0491153.0491153.049115
Jerry Flynn (Cary Grant) has to come up with $100,000 within a week to keep his theater. By chance, youngster Arthur "Pinky" Thompson (Ted Donaldson) shows him "Curly" (the original title of the film), a caterpillar that gets up on its tail and dances when Pinky plays "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" on his harmonica. Pinky refuses to let Jerry buy his friend, so they become partners. The boy is an orphan being raised by his showgirl sister Jeannie (Janet Blair), so he soon becomes very attached to Jerry, as does his sister.
My Sister Eileen, 1h36
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre
Themes Films about writers, Films based on plays, Buddy films
Actors Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias, Allyn Joslyn, Grant Mitchell
Rating69% 3.4944053.4944053.4944053.4944053.494405
Anxious to help boost the career of her aspiring actress sister Eileen, reporter Ruth Sherwood of the Columbus Courier writes a rave review about her performance in a local play before it opens. When Eileen is replaced on opening night and the newspaper mistakenly runs the inaccurate review, Ruth is fired.
They All Kissed the Bride, 1h25
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Allen Jenkins, Ivan F. Simpson
Rating63% 3.1956753.1956753.1956753.1956753.195675
Margaret Drew (Crawford) runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes (Douglas) who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings.