Harry Beaumont
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Harry Beaumont was an American film director
, actor
, and screenwriter
. He worked for a variety of production companies including Fox
, Goldwyn, Metro, Warner Brothers and MGM.
His greatest successes were during the silent film era, when he directed films including John Barrymore
’s Beau Brummel
(1924), the silent youth movie Our Dancing Daughters
(1928), featuring Joan Crawford
.
Beaumont also directed MGM's first talkie musical, The Broadway Melody
in 1929. The film won the Best Picture Academy Award that year, and Beaumont was nominated for Best Director.
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
. He worked for a variety of production companies including Fox
20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...
, Goldwyn, Metro, Warner Brothers and MGM.
His greatest successes were during the silent film era, when he directed films including John Barrymore
John Barrymore
John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...
’s Beau Brummel
Beau Brummel (1924 film)
Beau Brummel is a 1924 American silent film historical drama. The film stars John Barrymore and was directed by Harry Beaumont. The film is based on Clyde Fitch's historical play which had been performed by Richard Mansfield....
(1924), the silent youth movie Our Dancing Daughters
Our Dancing Daughters
Our Dancing Daughters is a 1928 MGM silent drama film starring Joan Crawford and John Mack Brown , about the "loosening of youth morals" that took place during the 1920s. The film was directed by Harry Beaumont and produced by Hunt Stromberg...
(1928), featuring Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....
.
Beaumont also directed MGM's first talkie musical, The Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody is a 1929 American musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930...
in 1929. The film won the Best Picture Academy Award that year, and Beaumont was nominated for Best Director.