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Kenneth Macgowan (November 30, 1888 – April 27, 1963) was an American film producer. He won an Academy Award for Best Color Short Film for La Cucaracha (1934), the first live-action short film made in the three-color Technicolor process.
Kenneth Macgowan was a theatrical producer who headed the Provincetown Playhouse in the 1920s with Eugene O'Neill, his close friend and Robert Edmond Jones. He produced plays on Broadway, giving Katherine Hepburn her first role.
- Producer, Writer, Additional Crew
- November 30, 1888
- Kenneth Macgowan
- April 27, 1963
Jan 1, 2015 · B y the time Kenneth Macgowan joined the faculty of UCLA in 1946, the 57-year-old had had three successful careers. His tenure at UCLA added two new roles to his résumé — as a professor, and then as the first chairman of UCLA’s groundbreaking Department of Theater Arts.
Kenneth Macgowan was a theatrical producer who headed the Provincetown Playhouse in the 1920s with Eugene O'Neill, his close friend and Robert Edmond Jones. He produced plays on Broadway, giving Katherine Hepburn her first role.
- Producer, Writer, Additional Crew
- April 27, 1963
- November 30, 1888
Aug 12, 2014 · The author, Kenneth MacGowan, was a respected producer behind such films as Lifeboat, Man Hunt and Lloyd’s of London. It may come as a surprise, then, when I tell you that I wanted to hurl both this book and Mr. MacGowan across the room.
Kenneth MacGowan was a creative motion picture producer, film scholar, and teacher. The 50 films for which he was responsible include two milestones in the use of three-color Technicolor, and his ten years at 20th Century-Fox resulted in his being regarded as an expert in historical biographies.
WEST LOS ANGELES, April 28 (UPI)--Kenneth, Macgowan, professor emeritus of theater arts at the University of California at Los Angeles, died here last night at the age of 74.
