James Cruze
James Cruze (actually: Jens Vera Cruz Bosen) ( born March 27, 1884 in Ogden, Utah; † August 3, 1942 in Los Angeles ) was an American actor and film director.
Career
James Cruze, which had the son of a Mormon family Danish ancestors worked as fishermen to earn their studies at an acting academy. At the age of 16 he was already playing leading roles on stage and in 1906 became a member of the then very famous Belasco troupe, with which he appeared regularly on Broadway. Already in 1908 he joined the profession and worked in countless films, the Thanhouser film company. He changed the mid- 1910s to Hollywood and began his career in 1918 as a director.
James Cruze was known as profiled Much worker who was at home in any genre. He initially became known by a number of comedies with Fatty Arbuckle in the lead role, but most strip after 1921, has been withdrawn and destroyed at the height of the scandal over the silent film actresses from circulation. His best-known film is the 1923 resulting Western The Covered Wagon, which is the train German expatriates in the western North America and their struggles with each other and with Indians. The film was carefully researched and staged detail. He was one of the most commercially successful representatives of its genre from the early days of the film and received a 1923 Photoplay Award as well as a Kinema Junpo Award. James Cruze ' movie Hollywood has come in the rental also in 1923, was the first strip and took a critical look behind the facade of the Dream Factory and relentlessly by partially fictitious stories revealed the manipulation of the audience about the stars of the screen. Simultaneously, the film was an homage to Fatty Arbuckle and do not skimp on criticism of the conduct of the producers against the actor. 1925 took over Cruze for work on Beggar on a Horse Back the technique of German Expressionism and could the critics with a dense dramaturgy and for that time to convince exciting new camera settings. Its decline began in the following year, when produced with high financial expenditure Western Old Ironside flopped at the box office. It was not until 1930 and King Vidor's Billy the Kid, before back came a carefully produced Western in the national cinema.
In the following years Cruze turned mostly routine films for numerous companies, including William Haines - Joan Crawford Romance The Duke Steps Out from 1929 In the same year he made with The Great Gabbo his first sound film, the lead roles Erich von Stroheim and Cruzes at that time. wife Betty Compson. In the 1930s waned Cruze career and he retired to some B - movies in 1938. He died penniless and largely forgotten.
After ten years of marriage with the actress Marguerite Snow, James Cruze was married to actress Betty Compson and the tumultuous clashes between the two filled the tabloids. Their divorce in 1930 was great participation by the media to mudslinging.
Cruze was often embroiled in conflict with the law and had in 1929 a process survive in which it was accused of being responsible for the deaths of some actors during the filming of one of his films.
A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame reminded today to James Cruze.