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Years active. 1911–1961; 1980. Spouse (s) Pauline Bush (1915–1919) Marie Shelton (1927–1949) Allan Dwan (born Joseph Aloysius Dwan; April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.
May 7, 2024 · Allan Dwan (born April 3, 1885, Toronto, Ontario, Canada—died December 28, 1981, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.) was an American director with more than 400 known feature films and short productions to his credit.
- Michael Barson
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Jun 5, 2013 · In the silent 1924 New York working-class melodrama “Manhandled,” starring Gloria Swanson as a shopgirl, Dwan brings quick-witted, visually analytical comedy to the bustling bargain basement ...
Allan Dwan was born on 3 April 1885 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a director and writer, known for Bound in Morocco (1918), A Perfect Crime (1921) and Panthea (1917). He was married to Marie Shelton and Pauline Bush. He died on 28 December 1981 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Frontier Marshal is a 1939 American Western film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Randolph Scott as Wyatt Earp. The film is the second produced by Sol M. Wurtzel based on Stuart N. Lake 's biography of Earp Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal (later found to be largely fictionalized).
Hold Back the Night is a 1956 American war film about the Korean War based on the 1951 novel by Pat Frank, who had been a war correspondent in Korea. The film was directed by Allan Dwan ; his third film with John Payne and his third film about the United States Marine Corps , the others being Abroad with Two Yanks (1944) and Sands of Iwo Jima ...
Dec 23, 1981 · Allan Dwan, who during his half-century career directed such stars as Gloria Swanson, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Shirley Temple and John Wayne, died of heart failure Monday at the Motion Picture...
