Malcolm St. Clair (filmmaker)
Malcolm St. Clair ( born May 17, 1897 in Los Angeles, California, † June 1, 1952 in Pasadena, California ) was an American film director.
Career
St. Clair, who was initially for a newspaper cartoons, came in 1915 as an actor gag writer for Mack Sennett for the film. Since 1919, he made numerous short films, including a number of films with the dog star Rin Tin Tin and two comedies of Buster Keaton ( The Goat and The Blacksmith ), but only in 1925 he was shot to fame with the film Are Parents People?. The intelligent comedy made him for a time a rival of Ernst Lubitsch and Harry d' Abbadie d' Arrast, he cemented his reputation thanks to films such as The Grand Duchess and the Waiter with Florence Vidor and Adolphe Menjou and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes according to the known play by Anita Loos from the year 1928. Yet in the late 1920s collapsed his career without that there would be an explanation. He turned then, with the exception of the semi- musicals Montana Moon with Joan Crawford in 1930 exclusively B movies.