Lucien Hubbard
Lucien Hubbard ( born December 22, 1888 in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, † December 31, 1971 in Beverly Hills, California ) was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director.
Life
Lucien Hubbard began in 1917 as a writer of templates and scenarios for the silent film The Angel Factory. Throughout his career, he wrote the screenplays for fifty films.
At the Academy Awards in 1931, he was first nominated for an Academy Award for best original story that is together with Joseph Jackson for Easy Money ( 1931). In 1932 he was nominated for The Star Witness again for the Academy Award for best original story.
More movies according to his literary works and screenplays were The Tower of Jewels (1920 ) Paid (1930 ), Three on a Match ( 1932) as well as companies thunderclap ( 1943). He also started in the mid 1920s and his work as a film producer for Warner Bros. and produced after his debut The Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924 ) to 1941, almost sixty films. Other productions of him were Wings (1927 ), Employees' Entrance ( 1933), Storm at Daybreak (1933 ) and Operator 13 (1934 ). He worked as a writer and producer with film directors such as Tom Teriss, Alfred E. Green, Mervyn LeRoy, Ray Enright, William A. Wellman, Sam Wood and Richard Boleslawski together.
In the film Rose-Marie (1928 ), he not only wrote the script, but also directed. His best-known today and still available is directing the film adaptation of Jules Verne The Mysterious Iceland (1929 ) with Lionel Barrymore in the lead role. However, these films were two of only three directorial work from him.