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Alexander Hall

Highest Rated: 100% Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

Lowest Rated: 23% Limehouse Blues (1934)

Birthday: Jan 11, 1894

Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

A workmanlike technician with a flair for light comedy who began his career as as an actor in 1914 and graduated to directing in 1932, Hall worked for Paramount until 1937 and then spent a decade with Columbia, after which he free-lanced until his directed career ended in 1956 with "Forever, Darling" (1956). Among Hall's better or best-remembered efforts are one of his first, "Madame Racketeer" (1932), a vehicle for comedienne Alison Skipworth; "Torch Singer" (1933), a most enjoyable showcase for Claudette Colbert; "Little Miss Marker" (1934), one of Shirley Temple's more amusing starring films; "Goin' to Town" (1935), probably Mae West's best comedy after the establishment of Hollywood's censorship body, the Production Code Administration; and "My Sister Eileen" (1942), which gave Rosalind Russell one of her best roles. Hall received his only Oscar nomination as Best Director for a big hit, "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" (1941), a clever comedy-fantasy (later remade as "Heaven Can Wait" 1978) starring Robert Montgomery as a boxer who accidentally is summoned to heaven "too soon" and is given another body in recompense. Hall was married to actress Lola Lane.

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100% 82% Here Comes Mr. Jordan
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93% 52% She Done Him Wrong
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89% 74% Little Miss Marker
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82% Song of the Flame
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80% 66% My Sister Eileen
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50% 54% Goin' to Town
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40% 49% Down to Earth
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33% 40% Kiss Me, Guido
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33% 57% Bedtime Story
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23% Limehouse Blues
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Alexander Hall

THE DOCTOR TAKES A WIFE, from left, Loretta Young, director Alexander Hall, cinematographer Sidney Hickox, on-set, 1940 THEY ALL KISSED THE BRIDE, from left, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Crawford, director Alexander Hall, outside Crawford's dressing room, 1942 THEY ALL KISSED THE BRIDE, from left, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Crawford, director Alexander Hall, outside Crawford's dressing room, 1942 THE DOCTOR TAKES A WIFE, prodicer William Perlberg, (left), ditrector Alexander Hall, (right) present Loretta Young with the 1939 Voice Personality Sward from the American Institute of Voice Teachers, April 1940 BEDTIME STORY, from left, director Alexander Hall, Loretta Young, on-set, 1941 THE DOCTOR TAKES A WIFE, cinematographer Sidney Hickox, (standing, left), director Alexander Hall, (seated, center), Loretta Young, (far left), Ray Milland, Gail Patrick, on-set, 1940 THE DOCTOR TAKES A WIFE, Reginald Gardiner, Loretta Young, (far left), director Alexander Hall, (seated, center), cinematographer Sidney Hickox, (far right), on-set, 1940 MY SISTER EILEEN, conga drummer Nico Lopez, Rosalind Russell, director Alexander Hall, Janet Blair, bandleader Xavier Cugat, musician Angelo Santos rhearse the film's conga line scene on set, 1942 THE DOCTOR TAKES A WIFE, from left, director Alexander Hall, (seated), Loretta Young, Reginald Gardiner, Ray Milland, 1940 THE DOCTOR TAKES A WIFE, cinematographer Sidney Hickox, (far left), director Alexander Hall, (seated, center), Reginald Gardiner, Loretta Young, on-set, 1940 View more photos

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Kiss Me, Guido 33% 40% 1997 Film Editing Mercenary 2: Thick and Thin 1997 Film Editing Forever Darling 48% 1956 Director Let's Do It Again 80% 1953 Director Because You're Mine 29% 1952 Director Up Front 1951 Director Love That Brute 1950 Director Louisa 1950 Director The Great Lover 64% 1949 Director Down to Earth 40% 49% 1947 Director She Wouldn't Say Yes 53% 1945 Director Once Upon a Time 44% 1944 Director The Heavenly Body 30% 1943 Director They All Kissed the Bride 40% 1942 Director My Sister Eileen 80% 66% 1942 Director Here Comes Mr. Jordan 100% 82% 1941 Director Bedtime Story 33% 57% 1941 Director This Thing Called Love 1940 Director The Doctor Takes a Wife 52% 1940 Director The Amazing Mr. Williams 1939 Director Good Girls Go to Paris 1939 Director The Lady's From Kentucky 1939 Director I Am the Law 67% 1938 Director There's Always a Woman 42% 1938 Director There's That Woman Again 20% 1938 Director
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