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Michael Barson. Lloyd Bacon - Director, Actor, Comedies: Moving to Twentieth Century-Fox, Bacon was put to work on The Fighting Sullivans (1944), a moving account of five real-life brothers who lost their lives during the Battle of Guadalcanal. Captain Eddie (1945) was another biopic, this time about the life of World War I ace Eddie ...
Lloyd Bacon (1889-1955) Lloyd Bacon was an early Hollywood film director who made his name with the brilliantly innovative Busby Berkeley musicals '42nd Street' and 'Footlight Parade' and continued directing over 100 movies in a variety of genres and with great success. He started his career as a vaudeville actor and he continued acting in ...
Lloyd Bacon. Lloyd Francis Bacon was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director. Bacon started in films with Charlie Chaplin and Bronco Billy Anderson and appeared in more than 40 total. As an actor he is best known for supporting Chaplin in such films as 1915’s The Tramp, The Champion and 1917’s Easy Street. He also directed ...
L loyd Bacon was a director, actor and writer in early Hollywood. He is best known for directing the first major film with dialogue, "The Singing Fool" (1929), starring Al Jolson and the blockbuster musical comedies "42nd Street" (1933), "Footlight Parade" (1933) and "Gold Diggers of 1937" (1937), featuring the stunning choreography of Busby Berkeley.
Lloyd Bacon (1889-1955) Lloyd Bacon was an early Hollywood film director who made his name with the brilliantly innovative Busby Berkeley musicals '42nd Street' and 'Footlight Parade' and continued directing over 100 movies in a variety of genres and with great success. He started his career as a vaudeville actor and he continued acting in ...
42nd Street: Directed by Lloyd Bacon. With Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler. When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.
Bacon's career amounts to that of a competent--and at times brilliant--director who did the best with the material handed to him in assembly-line fashion. Lloyd Bacon was born in San Jose, California, on January 16, 1890, into a theatrical family (his father was Frank Bacon, a playwright and stage actor).
