Alexander Hall

Alexander Hall ( born January 11, 1894 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; † 30 July 1968 in San Francisco, California, United States) was an American film director.

Career

At the age of four years, Alexander Hall was on stages, before 1914, he first came to the film as an actor. After the war, he moved behind the camera and worked as an editor and assistant director before 1932 for the Paramount Pictures with Sinners in the Sun made ​​his first film as a director.

He turned in the 1930s, many light comedies, but it reached only with the change to Columbia Pictures the peak of his career. There he was responsible for vacation from heaven with Robert Montgomery, Bedtime Story with Loretta Young and A kiss too much, a comedy starring Joan Crawford. His career went in the 1950s to the end. In 1942 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.

Filmography (selection)

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