* 1987 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director ( b. 1897 )

1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

A decade before the classic era, a story of Hammett's was the source for the gangster melodrama City Streets ( 1931 ), directed by Rouben Mamoulian and photographed by Lee Garmes, who worked regularly with Sternberg.

* 1897 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director ( d. 1987 )

In 1931, Rouben Mamoulian used the technique in his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

* Rings on Her Fingers ( 1942 ), d. Rouben Mamoulian

* October 8 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film and theatre director ( d. 1987 )

* December 4 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director ( b. 1898 )

It was directed by Rouben Mamoulian.

The hardworking Rodgers later regretted these relatively fallow years, but he and Hart did write a number of classic songs and film scores while out west, including Love Me Tonight ( 1932 ) ( directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who would later direct Rodgers ' Oklahoma!

Featuring songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, it was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who, with the help of the songwriters, was able to put his ideas of the integrated musical ( a musical which blends songs and dialogue so the songs advance the plot ).

Columbia Pictures originally purchased Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story, variously called The Gentleman from Montana and The Gentleman from Wyoming, as a vehicle for Ralph Bellamy, but once Frank Capra came on board as director – after Rouben Mamoulian had expressed interest – the film was to be a sequel to his Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, called Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington, with Gary Cooper reprising his role as Longfellow Deeds. Because Cooper was unavailable, Capra then " saw it immediately as a vehicle for Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur ," and Stewart was borrowed from MGM.

It also provided the basis of a 1957 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse.

Several directors, including Lewis Milestone, were offered and rejected Laura until Rouben Mamoulian finally agreed to direct.

Love Me Tonight is a 1932 musical comedy film produced and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with music by Rodgers and Hart.

Extra features included screenplay excerpts of deleted scenes, audio commentary by Miles Kreuger ( Founder and President of the Institute of the American Musical, Inc. and also a good friend of Rouben Mamoulian ), production documents, censorship records, and performances from Maurice Chevalier ( Louise ) and Jeanette MacDonald ( Love Me Tonight ) from the 1932 short Hollywood on Parade.

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* Rouben Mamoulian ( United States )

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1931 American Pre-Code horror film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Fredric March.

* Venice Film Festival: Audience Referendum ; Most Favorite Actor, Fredric March ; Most Original Fantasy Story, Rouben Mamoulian ; 1932.

Category: Films directed by Rouben Mamoulian

Scott's more than 30 years as a motion picture actor resulted in his working with many acclaimed screen directors, including Henry King, Rouben Mamoulian, Michael Curtiz, John Cromwell, King Vidor, Alan Dwan, Fritz Lang, and Sam Peckinpah.

This last film, a musical directed by Rouben Mamoulian, featured Scott in his " most ambitious performance ," The film is …

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian.

The opinion was shared by director Rouben Mamoulian, who said that the " little fellow at Universal ," in one bold stroke, had " asserted the primacy of the studio over the director " and forever altered the balance of power in the movie industry.

Rouben Zachary Mamoulian ( pronounced: roo-BEN ma-mool-YAN ; October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987 ) was an Armenian American film and theatre director.

She co-starred with Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins in Rouben Mamoulian's original 1931 film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

* " Herostratus " is a 2001 Armenian film co-written ( with Armen Vatyan ) and directed by Rouben Kochar.

Becky Sharp is a 1935 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins.

Rouben Mamoulian directed Love Me Tonight ( 1932 ), considered by many film critics and writers to be the ultimate film musical.

Consequently, Selznick had the film re-edited and some extra scenes shot in Hollywood under director Rouben Mamoulian to make the version known as The Wild Heart ( 1952 ).

The best-known film version, however, is Samuel Goldwyn's English-language We Live Again, filmed in 1934 with Fredric March and Anna Sten, and directed by Rouben Mamoulian.

Flashbacks were first employed during the sound era in Rouben Mamoulian's 1931 film City Streets, but were rare until about 1939 when, in William Wyler's Wuthering Heights as in Emily Brontë's original novel, the housekeeper Ellen narrates the main story to overnight visitor Mr. Lockwood, who has witnessed Heathcliff's frantic pursuit of what is apparently a ghost.

Queen Christina is a Pre-Code Hollywood feature film, produced in 1933 and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Swedish-born actress Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.

The film was directed by Rouben Mamoulian in 1933, and written by H. M. Harwood and Salka Viertel, with dialogue by S. N. Behrman, based on a story by Salka Viertel and Margaret P. Levino.

A chance encounter with Rouben Mamoulian landed him his first film job, as the technical advisor on Blood and Sand ( 1941 ).

The director and choreographer was Jack Cole, with sets and costumes by Rouben Ter-Arutunian.

This technique was used in 1927 in France by Abel Gance for Napoléon and in 1931 by the director Rouben Mamoulian for the first five minutes of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Preminger finally convinced Zanuck the material needed a more subtle approach than Mamoulian was willing to give it, and the studio head allowed the producer to fire him and direct the film himself.

When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer remade the film 10 years later with Spencer Tracy in the lead, the studio bought the rights to the 1931 Mamoulian version.

During this period, director Mamoulian repeatedly clashed with the producer about every aspect of the film, and Goldwyn fired him.

Mamoulian was incensed not only that he had been dismissed after eight months of pre-production work, but that he had been replaced by Preminger, who in 1944 had taken over Laura when Mamoulian had ignored all of Preminger's directives as producer of that film.