William Wyler (60 page)

Glamour
(1934)
Universal

Director: William Wyler

Adaptation: Doris Anderson, based on the short story by Edna Ferber

Continuity: Gladys Unger

Photography: George Robinson

Editor: Ted Kent

Art direction: Charles D. Hall

Musical score: Howard Jackson and Roy Turk

Cast: Paul Lukas (Victor Banki), Constance Cummings (Linda Faye), Phillip Reed (Lorenzo Valenti), Joseph Cawthorn (Ibsen), Doris Lloyd (Nana), Lyman Williams (Forsyth), David Dickinson (Stevie), Peggy Campbell (Amy), Olaf Hytten (Dobbs), Alice Lake (Secretary), Lita Chevret (Grassie), Phil Tead (Jimmy)
74 minutes

The Good Fairy
(1935)
Universal

Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Director: William Wyler
Associate producer: Henry Henigson

Screenplay: Preston Sturges, based on the play by Ferenc Molnár as translated by Jane Hinton

Photography: Norbert Brodine

Editorial supervision: Maurice Pivar

Editor: Daniel Mandell

Art direction: Charles D. Hall

Costumes: Vera West

Music director: Heinz Roemheld

Sound supervision: Gilbert Kurland

Cast: Margaret Sullavan (Luisa Ginglebusher), Herbert Marshall (Dr. Max Sporum), Frank Morgan (Konrad), Reginald Owen (Detlaff), Alan Hale (Schlapkohl), Beulah Bondi (Dr. Schultz), Cesar Romero (Joe), Eric Blore (Dr. Metz), Al Bridges (Doorman), June Clayworth (Actress), George Davis (Chauffeur), Hugh O'Connell (Gas Collector)
98 minutes

The Gay Deception
(1935)

Twentieth Century–Fox

Producer: Jesse L. Lasky

Director: William Wyler

Screenplay: Stephen Avery and Don Hartman

Additional dialogue: Arthur Richman (and Sam Raphaelson, uncredited)

Photography: Joseph Valentine

Art direction: Max Parker

Costumes: William Lambert

Music: Louis de Francesco

Sound: A. von Kirbach

Assistant director: A. Schaumer

Cast: Francis Lederer (Sandro), Frances Dee (Mirabel), Benita Hume (Miss Channing), Alan Mowbray (Lord Clewe), Paul Hurst (Bell Captain), Ferdinand Gottschalk (Squires), Richard Carle (Spitzer), Lenita Lane (Peg DeForrest), Lennox Pawel (Consul-General), Adele St. Maur (Lucille, the Maid), Lionel Stander (Gettel), Akim Tamiroff (Spellek), Barbara Fritchie (Joan Dennison)
Distribution: United Artists
79 minutes

These Three
(1936)
Samuel Goldwyn Production
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Director: William Wyler

Screenplay: Lillian Hellman, based on her play
The Children's Hour
Photography: Gregg Toland
Editor: Daniel Mandell

Art direction: Richard Day
Costumes: Omar Kiam
Music: Alfred Newman
Assistant director: Walter Mayo
Sound recorder: Frank Maher

Cast: Miriam Hopkins (Martha Dobie), Merle Oberon (Karen Wright), Joel McCrea (Dr. Joseph Cardin), Catherine Doucet (Mrs. Lily Mortar), Alma Kruger (Mrs. Tilford), Bonita Granville (Mary Tilford), Marcia Mae Jones (Rosalie Wells), Carmencita Johnson (Evelyn), Margaret Hamilton (Agatha), Marie Louise Cooper (Helen Burton), Mary Ann Durkin (Joyce Walton), Walter Brennan (Taxi Driver)
Distribution: United Artists
93 minutes

Dodsworth
(1936)
Samuel Goldwyn Production
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Director: William Wyler
Associate producer: Merritt Hulburd

Screenplay: Sidney Howard, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis and on the play adapted by Sidney Howard as produced for the stage by Max Gordon

Photography: Rudolph Maté
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Art direction: Richard Day
Costumes: Omar Kiam
Music: Alfred Newman
Assistant director: Eddie Bernoudy
Sound: Oscar Lagerstrom
Location cameraman: Harry Perry

Cast: Walter Huston (Sam Dodsworth), Ruth Chatterton (Fran Dodsworth), Paul Lukas (Arnold Iselin), Mary Astor (Edith Cortwright), David Niven (Major Clyde Lockert), Gregory Gaye (Kurt von Obersdorf), Maria Ouspenskaya (Baroness von Obersdorf), Odette Myrtil (Mme. Renée de Penable), Kathryn Marlowe (Emily), John Payne (Harry McKee), Spring Byington (Matey Pearson), Harlan Briggs (Tubby Pearson), Charles Halton (Hazzard), Beatrice Maud (Mary, the Dodsworths' Maid), Wilson Benge (Steward), Inez Palange (Teresa)
Distribution: United Artists
101 minutes

Come and Get It
(1936)
Samuel Goldwyn Production

Directors: Howard Hawks and William Wyler
Associate producer: Merritt Hulburd
Logging scenes directed by: Richard Rosson

Screenplay: Jules Furthman and Jane Murfin, based on the novel by Edna Ferber

Photography: Gregg Toland and Rudolph Maté

Editor: Edward Curtiss

Art direction: Richard Day

Set decoration: Julia Heron

Costumes: Omar Kiam

Music: Alfred Newman

Assistant director: Walter Mayo

Sound technician: Frank Maher

Cast: Edward Arnold (Barney Glasgow), Joel McCrea (Richard Glasgow), Frances Farmer (Lotta Morgan/Lotta Bostrom), Walter Brennan (Swan Bostrom), Andrea Leeds (Evie Glasgow), Frank Shields (Tony Schwerke), Mady Christians (Karie), Mary Nash (Emma Louise Glasgow), Clem Bevans (Gunar Gallagher), Edwin Maxwell (Sid Le Maire), Cecil Cunningham (Josie), Harry Bradley (Gubbins), Rollo Lloyd (Steward), Charles Halton (Hewitt), Phillip Cooper (Chore Boy), Al K. Hall (Goodnow), Robert Lowery (Young Man), Jack Pennick (Foreman), Stanley Blystone, Constantine Romanoff, Harry Tenbrook, Max Wagner (Lumberjacks)
Distribution: United Artists
105 minutes

Dead End
(1937)
Samuel Goldwyn Production
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Director: William Wyler
Associate producer: Merritt Hulburd

Screenplay: Lillian Hellman, based on the play by Sidney Kingsley as produced by Norman Bel Geddes

Photography: Gregg Toland

Editor: Daniel Mandell

Art direction: Richard Day

Set decoration: Julia Heron

Costumes: Omar Kiam

Music: Alfred Newman

Assistant director: Eddie Bernoudy

Sound recorder: Frank Maher

Dialogue director: Edward P. Goodnow

Cast: Sylvia Sidney (Drina Gordon), Joel McCrea (Dave Connell), Humphrey Bogart (“Baby Face” Martin), Wendy Barrie (Kay Burton), Claire Trevor (Francey), Allen Jenkins (Hunk), Marjorie Main (Mrs. Martin), Billy Halop (Tommy Gordon), Huntz Hall (Dippy), Bobby Jordan (Angel), Leo Gorcey (Spit), Gabriel Dell (T.B.), Bernard Punsley (Milty), Charles Peck (Philip Griswold), Minor Watson (Mr. Griswold), James Burke (Mulligan), Ward Bond (Doorman), Elisabeth Risdon (Mrs. Connell), Esther Dale (Mrs. Fenner), George Humbert (Mr. Pascalgi), Marcelle Corday (Governess), Charles Halton (Whitey), Donald Barry (Intern)

Distribution: United Artists
93 minutes

Jezebel
(1938)
Warner Brothers

Executive producer: Hal B. Wallis
Director: William Wyler
Associate producer: Henry Blanke

Screenplay: Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, and John Huston, based on the play by Owen Davis Sr.

Script contributor: Robert Buckner

Photography: Ernest Haller

Editor: Warren Low

Art direction: Robert Haas

Costumes: Orry-Kelly

Music: Max Steiner

Musical direction: Leo F. Forbstein

Songs: “Jezebel” by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren; “Raise a Ruckus” by Harry Warren and Al Dubin

Technical adviser: Dalton S. Reymond

Assistant director: Bob Ross

Sound: Robert B. Lee

Cast: Bette Davis (Julie Marsden), Henry Fonda (Preston Dillard), George Brent (Buck Cantrell), Margaret Lindsay (Amy), Donald Crisp (Dr. Livingston), Fay Bainter (Aunt Belle), Richard Cromwell (Ted Dillard), Henry O'Neill (General Bogardus), Spring Byington (Mrs. Kendrick), John Litel (Jean La Cour), Gordon Oliver (Dick Allen), Janet Shaw (Molly Allen), Theresa Harris (Zette), Margaret Early (Stephanie Kendrick), Irving Pichel (Huger), Eddie Anderson (Gros Bat), Stymie Beard (Ti Bat), Lew Payton (Uncle Cato), George Renevant (De Lautruc), Georgia Caine (Mrs. Petion), Fred Lawrence (Bob), Ann Codee (Madam Pulard, Dressmaker), Daisy Bufford (Flower Girl), Trevor Bardette (Sheriff at Plantation), Jack Norton (Drunk), Jacques Vanaire (Duretta), Alan Bridge (New Orleans Sheriff)

Distribution: Warner Brothers
104 minutes

Wuthering Heights
(1939)
Samuel Goldwyn Production
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Director: William Wyler

Screenplay: Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, from the novel by Emily Brontë

Photography: Gregg Toland
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Art direction: James Basevi
Set decoration: Julia Heron
Costumes: Omar Kiam
Music: Alfred Newman
Technical adviser: Peter Shaw
Assistant director: Walter Mayo
Sound recorder: Paul Neal

Cast: Merle Oberon (Cathy), Laurence Olivier (Heathcliff), David Niven (Edgar Linton), Flora Robson (Ellen Dean), Donald Crisp (Dr. Kenneth), Hugh Williams (Hindley), Geraldine Fitzgerald (Isabella Linton), Leo G. Carroll (Joseph), Cecil Humphreys (Judge Linton), Miles Mander (Lockwood), Romaine Callender (Robert, the Butler), Cecil Kellaway (Earnshaw), Rex Downing (Heathcliff as a Child), Sarita Wooton (Cathy as a Child), Douglas Scott (Hindley as a Child), Helena Grant (Miss Hudkins), Susanne Leach (Guest), Tommy Martin and Schuyler Standish (Little Boys), Diane Williams (Little Girl), Mme. Alice Ahlers (Harpsichordist), Vernon Downing (Giles)
Distribution: United Artists
103 minutes

The Westerner
(1940)
Samuel Goldwyn Production
Director: William Wyler

Screenplay: Jo Swerling and Niven Busch, based on a story by Stuart N. Lake

Photography: Gregg Toland
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Art direction: James Basevi
Set decoration: Julia Heron
Costumes: Irene Saltern

Music: composed and conducted by Dmitri Tiomkin (Alfred Newman, uncredited)

Assistant director: Walter Mayo

Cast: Gary Cooper (Cole Hardin), Walter Brennan (Judge Roy Bean), Doris Davenport (Jane-Ellen Mathews), Fred Stone (Caliphet Mathews), Forrest Tucker (Wade Harper), Lilian Bond (Lillie Langtry), Paul Hurst (Chickenfoot), Chill Wills (Southeast), Charles Halton (Mort Borrow), Tom Tyler (King Evans), Arthur Aylsworth (Mr. Dixon), Lupita Toyer (Teresita), Julian Rivero (Juan Gomez), Dana Andrews (Bart Cobble), Roger Gray (Eph Stringer), Trevor Bardette (Shad Wilkins), Jack Pennick (Bantry), Arthur Mix (Seth Tucker), Helen Foster (Janice), Connie Leon (Langtry's Maid), Charles Coleman (Langtry's Manager), Lew Kelly (Ticket Man), Heinie Conklin (Man at Window), Lucien Littlefield (Stranger), Corbet Morris (Orchestra Leader), Stanley Andrews (Sheriff), Henry Roquemore (Stage Manager), Hank Bell (Deputy), Bill Steele (Tex Cole), Blackjack Ward (Buck Harrigan), Jim Corey (Lee Webb), Buck Moulton (Charles Evans), Ted Wells (Joe Lawrence), Joe De La Cruz (Mex), Frank Cordell (Bean Henchman), Philip Connor (John Yancy), Capt. C. E. Anderson (Hezikiah Willever)
Distribution: United Artists
99 minutes

The Letter
(1940)

Warner Brothers/First National

In charge of production: Jack L. Warner

Executive producer: Hal B. Wallis

Director: William Wyler

Associate producer: Robert Lord

Screenplay: Howard Koch, based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham

Photography: Tony Gaudio

Editors: George Amy and Warren Low

Art direction: Carl Jules-Weyl

Gowns: Orry-Kelly

Music: Max Steiner

Technical advisers: Louis Vincenot and John Villasin
Assistant director: Sherry Shourds
Sound: Dolph Thomas

Cast: Bette Davis (Leslie Crosbie), Herbert Marshall (Robert Crosbie), James Stephenson (Howard Joyce), Frieda Inescort (Dorothy Joyce), Gale Sondergaard (Mrs. Hammond), Bruce Lester (John Withers), Elizabeth Earl (Adele Ainsworth), Cecil Kellaway (Prescott), Sen Yung (Ong Chi Seng), Doris Lloyd (Mrs. Cooper), Willie Fung (Chung Hi), Tetsu Kornai (Head Boy)

Distribution: Warner Brothers
95 minutes

The Little Foxes
(1941)
Samuel Goldwyn Production
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Director: William Wyler

Screenplay: Lillian Hellman, based on her stage play as produced by Herman Shumlin

Additional scenes and dialogue: Arthur Kober, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell

Photography: Gregg Toland
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Art direction: Stephen Goosson
Set decoration: Howard Bristol
Costumes: Orry-Kelly
Music: Meredith Wilson
Sound recorder: Frank Maher
Assistant director: William Tummel

Cast: Bette Davis (Regina Hubbard Giddens), Herbert Marshall (Horace Giddens), Teresa Wright (Alexandra Giddens), Richard Carlson (David Hewitt), Patricia Collinge (Birdie Hubbard), Dan Duryea (Leo Hubbard), Charles Dingle (Ben Hubbard), Carl Benton Reid (Oscar Hubbard), John Marriott (Cal), Jessie Grayson (Addie), Russell Hicks (William Marshall), Lucien Littlefield (Sam Menders), Virginia Brissac (Mrs. Lucy Hewitt), Terry Nibert (Julia), Charles R. Moore (Simon), Henry “Hot Shot” Thomas (Harold), Alan Bridge (Hotel Manager), Kenny Washington (Servant), Hooper Atchley (Guest), Lew Kelly (Train Companion), Henry Roquemore (Depositor)
Distribution: RKO Pictures
116 minutes

Mrs. Miniver
(1942)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Producer: Sidney Franklin
Director: William Wyler

Screenplay: Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, and Claudine West, based on the novel by Jan Struther

Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg

Editor: Harold F. Kress

Art direction: Cedric Gibbons

Set decoration: Edwin B. Willis

Musical score: Herbert Stothart

Song: “Midsummer's Day” by Gene Lockhart
Cast: Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver), Walter Pidgeon (Clem Miniver), Teresa Wright (Carol Beldon), Dame May Whitty (Lady Beldon), Reginald Owen (Foley), Henry Travers (Mr. Ballard), Richard Ney (Olin Miniver), Henry Wilcoxon (Vicar), Christopher Severn (Toby Miniver), Brenda Forbes (Gladys), Clare Sandars (Judy Miniver), Marie de Becker (Ada), Helmut Dentine (German Flyer), John Abbott (Fred), Connie Leon (Simpson), Rhys William (Horace), Mary Field (Miss Spriggins), Ben Webster (Ginger), Paul Scardon (Nobby), Aubrey Mather (Innkeeper), Forrester Harvey (Huggins), Billy Sevin (Conductor), Ottola Smith (Saleslady), Gerald Oliver Smith (Car Dealer), Alec Craig (Joe), Clara Reid (Mrs. Huggins), John Burton (Halliday), Leonard Carey (Beldon's Butler), Eric Lonsdale (Marston), Arthur Wimperis (Sir Henry), David Clyde (Carruthers), Colin Campbell (Sickles), Herbert Clifton (Doctor), Thomas Louden (Mr. Verger), Peter Lawford (Pilot), Miles Mander (German Agent's Voice), St. Luke's Choristers
Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
134 minutes