Malcolm St. Clair
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Malcolm St. Clair
The Film Daily Year Book, Volume 11, 1928, page 34 · Public domain
- Born
- 1897 · Los Angeles.
- Died
- 1952 · Pasadena.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- actor · screenwriter · film producer · director
- Languages
- English
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Malcolm St. Clair, born on 17 May 1897 and died on 1 June 1952, is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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The recorded working language is English. Work by Malcolm St. Clair is recorded in the collections of Anne Frank House.
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- 1.Dwyer, Rauth Anne. Malcolm St. Clair: His Films 1915–1948. Scarecrow Press. March 20, 1997. 978-0-8108-2709-7.
- 2.Dwyer, 1996 p 1, p. 2: “...the peak of his career in 1926...” And p. 5: On Keaton
- 3.Dwyer, 1996 p. 2: “...his career as a ‘B’ director in the 1930s at 20th Century Fox...” And p. 160-161
- 4.Dwyer, 1996 p. 2: “many films are lost, and some, surviving only on delicate nitrate stock, are unavailable for viewing.” And p. 160
- 5.Dwyer, 1996 p. 1: Composite quote, slight edits for brevity, comprehension: meaning unaltered.
- 6.Dwyer, 1996 p. 7: With Sennett for “five years, from 1915 to 1921...”
- 7.Dwyer, 1996 p. 7: “...the 17-year-old St. Clair had been drawing sport caricatures for the Los Angeles Express.”
- 8.Dwyer, 1996 p. 8
- 9.Dwyer, 1996 p. 2, p. 8, both pages report 6’3”
- 10.Dwyer, 1996 p. 9-10
- 11.Dwyer, 1996 pp. 177-241: Filmography.
- 12.Dwyer, 1996 p. 11: See here for kindness Normand towards St. Clair and career support And p. 13: On credited, uncredited roles. And p. 177-183: Filmography
- 13.Dwyer, 1996 pp. xiii-xviii: List of Film Titles, chronological
- 14.Dwyer, 1996 p. 5
- 15.Dwyer, 1996 p. 85-86
- 16.Dwyer, 1996 p. 4
- 17.Dwyer, 1996 p. 72
- 18.Dwyer, 1996 p. 94: Mosley's Daryll Zanuck: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Last Tycoon (1984). See footnote no. 5, p. 95 in Dwyer.
- 19.Dwyer, 1996 p. 94
- 20.Dwyer, 1996 p. 94, And p. 85: See epigraph attributed to Jack Warner: “I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.”
- 21.Dwyer, 1996 p. 122
- 22.Dwyer, 1996 p. 2: “...the peak of his career in 1926…” And p. 98 for quote.
- 23.Dwyer, 1996 p. 94: “After Business Hours (1925) artistic and financial success prompted Paramount to seek the talents of the young director, who, by 1925, and at the age of 28, had 46 films to his directing credit.”
- 24.Dwyer, 1996 p. 4: St. Clair's work at Paramount in the 1920s “the most important phase of his career.”
- 25.Dwyer, 1996 p. 51, p. 2: “...the peak of his career in 1926…” And p. 5: 1928 “the apex of his career…” And p. 5: St. Clair’s sophisticated style “did not spring forth simply as a result of his association with Ernst Lubitsch.”
- 26.Dwyer, 1996 p. 3-4: Louise Brooks’ “unpleasant assessment of St. Clair's directing technique...highly inaccurate...”
- 27.Dwyer, 1996 p. 3-4: Dwyer's account “should correct any misconceptions caused by Brooks’ assertions.”
- 28.Kobal, John. People Will Talk. Alfred A. Knopf. 82. 1985. 0-394-53660-6.
- 29.Louise Brooks - Caricatures and Illustrations (American). Louise Brooks Society.
- 30.Dwyer, 1996 p. 5-6: On his 12 years at 20th Century Fox
- 31.Scott MacGillivray, Laurel & Hardy: From the Forties Forward, Second Edition, iUniverse, 2009, p. 160.
- 32.Erickson, Hal. Malcolm St Clair. The New York Times. 2014.
- 33.Erickson, Hal. Malcolm St Clair. The New York Times. 2014.
- 34.Dwyer, 1996 p. 6
- 35.Dwyer, 1996 p. 107
- 36.Dwyer, 1996 p. 107: Reviewers were “familiar” with this device to which “they referred in their assessment of [St. Clair's] work.’ and p. 110: See section on “rapidly spaced close-ups.
- 37.Dwyer, 1996 p. 108
- 38.Dwyer, 1996 p. 109: “...disclose an emotional state of mind...relay important narrative information.”
- 39.Dwyer, 1996 p. 109: Dwyer provides more examples.
- 40.Dwyer, 1996 p. 109: See here for note on Peter Milne, See Bibliography, p. 171 for article in Motion Picture Classic, 1926.
- 41.Dwyer, 1996 p. 110
- 42.Dwyer, 1996 pp. xiii-xviii: List of Film Titles and studios, chronological
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