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Childhood And Early Life. American film director W.S. Van Dyke was born on the 21 March 1889 in San Diego, California the same day that his father, a Superior Court judge, died. His mother Laura Winston was a stage actress who, after her husband’s death, returned to acting, taking her son on tour with her. advertisement.
William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man (1934), directed by W.S. Van Dyke. The Thin Man, American detective film, released in 1934, that was considered a paragon of the fun, sophisticated, glib dramas produced by Hollywood during the Great Depression. The film is the first in a popular series of detective films featuring William Powell as ...
Jun 4, 1996 · The colorful W.S. "Woody" Van Dyke directed many of MGM's most outstanding films during the 1920s and 1930s including: The Thin Man; Rose-Marie; Tarzan, the Ape Man; and White Shadows in the South Seas. W.S. Van Dyke's Journal assembles previously unavailable source material and is illustrated with rare behind-the-scenes photographs covering all phases of Van Dyke's career.
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W.S. Van Dyke. Director: The Thin Man. For the better part of his career, Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke lived up to his sobriquet "One-Take Woody" by steadfastly adhering to his credo of shooting each scene as quickly and efficiently as possible. Over his 25-year career, he economically directed over 90 diverse entertainments, which not only saved the studios vast amounts of money but turned out ...
W.S. Van Dyke II. Genres. Drama Romance Western. Subgenres. Melodrama B-Western Adventure Drama Musical Romance Romantic Comedy Romantic Adventure. Submit Corrections.
W・S・ヴァン・ダイク（W. S. Van Dyke, 1889年 3月21日 - 1943年 2月5日）は、アメリカ合衆国で活動した映画監督である。 作品によっては W. S. Van Dyke Jr. ともクレジットされたことがある。
Legendary director, W.S. Van Dyke, was born Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke II on Mar 21, 1889 in San Diego, CA. Van Dyke died at the age of 53 on Feb 5, 1943 in Brentwood, CA and was laid to rest in Forest Lawn (Glendale) Cemetery in Glendale, CA.
