Kenneth Webb
Encyclopedia
Kenneth S. Webb was an American
film director
, screenwriter
, and composer
noted for directing a number of films in the early age of the American film industry. He helped write The Gay Divorce
along with Samuel Hoffenstein
.
United States
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film 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:...
, 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:...
, and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
noted for directing a number of films in the early age of the American film industry. He helped write The Gay Divorce
Gay Divorce
Gay Divorce is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Dwight Taylor, adapted by Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. It was Fred Astaire's last Broadway show and featured the hit song "Night and Day" in which Astaire danced with co-star Claire Luce.It was made into a musical...
along with Samuel Hoffenstein
Samuel Hoffenstein
Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Russia, he immigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and in the entertainment business. In 1931 he moved to Los Angeles where he lived for the rest of his life where he wrote...
.
Selected Filmography
- The Stolen KissThe Stolen KissThe Stolen Kiss is a 1920 silent film romance drama starring Constance Binney. Kenneth Webb directed. The Realart Company produced and were an affiliate of Paramount Pictures. It is a lost film. -Cast:*Constance Binney - Felicia Day/Octavia, her Mother...
(1920) - The Great AdventureThe Great Adventure (1921 film)The Great Adventure is a 1921 silent film romantic-comedy produced by Whitman Bennett and distributed by First National Pictures, then called Associated First National. The film was directed by Kenneth Webb and starred Lionel Barrymore. Fredric March made his screen debut in this film. Remade in...
(1921) - Jim the PenmanJim the Penman (1921 film)Jim the Penman is a 1921 silent film crime drama produced by Whitman Bennett and distributed through Associated First National, later just First National Pictures. It is based on a well known Broadway play Jim the Penman by Charles Lawrence Young. The film stars Lionel Barrymore and was directed by...
(1921) - The Daring YearsThe Daring YearsThe Daring Years is an independently released American silent film melodrama, directed by Kenneth Webb and produced by Daniel Carson Goodman. The film starred Mildred Harris, Clara Bow, Charles Emmett Mack, and Tyrone Power, Sr....
(1923)