Frank Lloyd Articles

Frank Lloyd, Henry King, John Ford, Frank Borzage Among them, these four filmmakers share eight Oscar wins and four additional nominations Frank Lloyd Intro II First of all, why Frank Lloyd? An obvious response might be "why not?" While large, trade publishers are suffering from diminishing sales, it seems that "small" publishers and similar entities, including the "vanity press" and the self-publishing brigade, are expanding [...]

Milton Sills in The Sea Hawk (top); William Farnum in A Tale of Two Cities (bottom) Frank Lloyd Intro I: Two-Time Oscar Winner Unlike George Cukor, Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, William Wyler, or even John Ford, Frank Lloyd specialized in one movie genre: melodrama. From A Tale of Two Cities to Cavalcade, from The Sea Hawk to The Howards of Virginia, from Black Oxen to [...]

Like many other Hollywood filmmakers of the studio era, Frank Lloyd (1886-1960) is hardly remembered today despite his numerous box-office successes — e.g., The Sea Hawk (1924), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Wells Fargo (1937) — and no less than two Best Director Academy Awards, for The Divine Lady (1929) and Cavalcade (1933). With Frank Lloyd: Master of Screen Melodrama (BearManor Media, 2009), author and [...]

Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in You Can’t Take It with You FILM The Adventures of Robin Hood d: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; scr: Seton I. Miller, Norman Reilly Raine Bringing Up Baby d: Howard Hawks; scr: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde Dramatic School d: Robert B. Sinclair; scr: Ernest Vajda, Mary McCall Jr. L’Etrange Monsieur Victor d: Jean Grémillon; scr: Albert Valentin, [...]