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Alexander Hall (January 11, 1894, Boston, Massachusetts – July 30, 1968, San Francisco, California) was an American theatre actor and film director.
Hall acted in the theatre from the age of four through 1914, when he began to work in silent movies. Following his military service in World War I, he returned to Hollywood and pursued a career in film production. He worked as a film editor and assistant director at Paramount Pictures until 1932, when he directed his first feature film, Sinners in the Sun. From 1937 to 1947, he was a contract director at Columbia Pictures, where he earned a reputation for sophisticated comedies. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941).
Hall was married to actress Lola Lane from 1934 to 1936. He was engaged briefly to Lucille Ball, who left him when she met Desi Arnaz. The couple later hired him to direct their 1956 film Forever, Darling.
Hall died of complications from a stroke in San Francisco.
Most Popular Alexander Hall Trailers
Total trailers found: 68
07 August 1941
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body.
20 June 1939
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true.
16 June 1953
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore).
25 December 1927
In this feature comedy, silent film star Colleen Moore plays a woman who owns a small lunch wagon and falls for a duke’s son, played by Larry Kent, who is pretending to be his own chauffeur.
01 October 1952
A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp.
24 September 1942
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage.
11 December 1934
Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub.
24 May 1930
This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin.
28 July 1933
With a sparkling script by Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint" - the latest crime wave has Scotland Yard baffled.
20 December 1940
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
08 September 1933
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.
22 July 1937
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
22 November 1939
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary.
11 June 1942
Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways.
29 August 1931
Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet Nikki, an eccentric and wealthy young woman.
09 February 1956
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to tell her that there will be trouble ahead if they do not work out their problems.
24 December 1938
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store.
18 October 1928
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can.
12 January 1934
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year.
25 August 1938
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
06 August 1937
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars.
31 August 1940
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
31 May 1950
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
23 July 1936
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income.
25 April 1935
Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man.
25 April 1940
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
26 May 1933
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
31 January 1926
A Parisian cabaret dancer Emilia finds herself under the scrutiny of aristocratic British military officer Jerome Hautrix, who catches her act while on furlough during WWI.
23 July 1932
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa.
04 August 1918
Little Kate and Janie O'Dowd are sent to their wealthy American uncle, Michael O'Dowd, after their Irish father loses his life on a World War I battlefield.
06 June 1950
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.
25 May 1921
A Nick Carter Mystery
25 December 1941
A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce.
29 June 1944
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops.
13 May 1932
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
08 May 1921
A Nick Carter mystery.
20 April 1938
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job.
27 March 1921
A Nick Carter mystery
25 May 1921
A Nick Carter mystery
22 May 1921
A Nick Carter mystery
27 September 1934
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
21 August 1947
Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth to land a part in the show and change it.
05 March 1951
Military comedy set during WWII, inspired by Bill Mauldin's popular newspaper cartoons of soldiers "Willie" and "Joe".
06 March 1936
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale).
06 July 1921
A Nick Carter mystery
07 June 1925
Two hundred fifty thousand have read this startling novel with its revelations on married life-its intimate story of the times and follies of new conventions that hurl their challenge to the old!
14 February 1926
Possibly lost film starring Blanche Sweet
23 August 1935
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm.
30 March 1921
A Nick Carter mystery
23 February 1921
A Nick Carter mystery
03 April 1921
A Nick Carter mystery
21 March 1921
A Nick Carter mystery
08 June 1921
A Nick Carter Mystery
01 May 1921
A Nick Carter mystery
09 February 1921
Among the Counterfeiters has Nick Carter infiltrating a counterfeiting ring to save grandfather of a little girl who was accused of passing bogus bills.
27 April 1939
Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times.
30 October 1930
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
04 April 1931
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929).
01 June 1934
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money.
09 February 1933
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence.
