Alfred E. Green
Alfred E. Green (sometimes Alfred E. Greene, Alfred Green or Al Green, born July 11, 1889 in Perris, California, † September 4, 1960 in Hollywood) was an American film director.
Life
Green began his career in the film business in 1912 as an actor in the Blessed Polyscope Company. Some time later he became an assistant to director Colin Campbell to perform soon himself directs short films. His breakthrough came thanks to some movies with Mary Pickford during their time at First National, including as co-director at Little Lord Fountleroy.
Green remained in the coming years with the company and worked with stars such as Colleen Moore, with whom he turned some of her greatest successes, as well as Thomas Meighan and Wallace Reid. His career was towards the end of the silent era somewhat, but with the merger of First National with Warner Brothers, he experienced a new upswing. But above all, his friendship with George Arliss was in charge, he led by almost all his sound films. Direct her first film Disraeli won the Oscar for Best Actor for Arliss. In the following years he worked with some of the top stars of the studio as Edward G. Robinson ( silver dollars, I Loved a Woman ), John Barrymore ( The Man from Blankley 's ), Barbara Stanwyck ( Baby Face, A Lost Lady) and Ruth Chatterton, for their debut at Warners in The Rich Are Always With Us, he was responsible in 1932 and got great reviews.
Was chosen film Daily of the ten best directors in the annual election of the magazine Alfred E. Green as greatest director of 1929-1930, at the height of his fame. The next four places went to King Vidor, Clarence Brown, Lionel Barrymore and Ernst Lubitsch.
Most movies of Green were rather routine productions, especially during the 1930s, but occasionally he managed to combine art and commerce. So Bette Davis won her first Oscar in 1935 for the concert in Dangerous. However, Green was at all responsible for one of their worst films: The Golden Arrow from the following year, which contributed to the famous trial, which the actress in the year filed against Warners in England and lost. Kay Francis turned under the direction of Green with The Goose and the Gander one of their few comedies.
Green turned since the mid- decade almost exclusively B movies, but in 1946 he had for Columbia Pictures with the strip The Jazz Singer a surprise hit, grossing nearly eight million dollars at the box office and from Larry Parks made a star. The success was not repeated and Green staged since the mid- 1950s exclusively for television.
His son, Hilton A. Green (1929-2013) worked as a film producer and assistant director.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Alfred E. Green died on September 4, 1960 in Hollywood.