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The Screen Director

6.0 9 mins Documentary   1951
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)   Warner Bros. Pictures  
Director(s): Richard L. Bare

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.

Casts of The Screen Director

Richard L. Bare

as Stagehand on Telephone (uncredited)

Frank Capra

as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Phyllis Coates

as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

John Huston

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Vivien Leigh

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Michael Curtiz

as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Edward Biby

as Actor (uncredited)

Roy Del Ruth

as Self (uncredited)

Paul Douglas

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

as Woman in Audience (uncredited)

John Ford

as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Art Gilmore

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Creighton Hale

as Theatre Manager (uncredited)

Ray Heindorf

as Self (uncredited)

Elia Kazan

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Burt Lancaster

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ida Lupino

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gordon MacRae

as Self (uncredited)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leo McCarey

as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Harold Miller

as Actor (uncredited)

Jack Mower

as Man in Audience (uncredited)

John Pickard

as Jack - Assistant Director (uncredited)

Ruth Roman

as Self (uncredited)

Brick Sullivan

as Stagehand (uncredited)

John Wayne

as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Tennessee Williams

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jack Wise

as Preview Audience Spectator (uncredited)

William Wyler

as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Jane Wyman

as Self (uncredited)

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