DIRECTED BY ALLAN DWAN...AND CROTON'S GLORIA SWANSON TOO

Our friends at European Film Star Postcards have a post on American film director, producer and screenwriter Allan Dwan (1885-1981) who directed more than 400 short and feature films over 50 years.

If the name sounds familiar to you, that's because Dwan directed Croton's Gloria Swanson in quite a few films. (For one example, click on the image: a German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 1488/3, 1927-1928. Photo: Donald Biddle Keyes / Paramount / Parafumet. Gloria Swanson in Stage Struck, Allan Dwan, 1925).

You may also recall that Dwan did What a Widow!, a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film starring Swanson and produced by Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.  READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE.

Along with Cecil B. DeMille, Dwan was one of the few directors who made the transition from the days of the one-reelers in the 1910s through the glory days of the studio system in the 1930s and 1940s and into its decline in the 1950s. 

READ AND SEE MORE ABOUT HIM AT European Film Star Postcards: Directed by Allan Dwan