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Kenneth Macgowan is a Associate Producer American born on 30 november 1888 at Massachusetts (USA)

Kenneth Macgowan

Kenneth Macgowan
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Nationality USA
Birth 30 november 1888 at Massachusetts (USA)
Death 27 april 1963 (at 74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Kenneth Macgowan (parfois crédité Kenneth MacGowan) — né le 30 novembre 1888 à Winthrop (Massachusetts), mort le 27 avril 1963 à Los Angeles (quartier de West Los Angeles, Californie) — est un producteur de théâtre, metteur en scène et producteur de cinéma américain.

Biography

À Broadway (New York), Kenneth Macgowan devient producteur de théâtre associé à Eugene O'Neill, sur une pièce de ce dernier représentée en 1924. Suivent quinze autres pièces comme producteur, dont Outside Looking In de Maxwell Anderson (1925, avec Charles Bickford et James Cagney), Le Grand Dieu Brown d'Eugene O'Neill (1926, avec Robert Keith et Ann Shoemaker), La Nuit des rois de William Shakespeare (1930, avec Jane Cowl et Walter Kingsford) et Springtime for Henry de Benn W. Levy (sa dernière production théâtrale, 1931-1932, avec Leslie Banks et Frieda Inescort).

De plus, toujours à Broadway, il est metteur en scène de deux pièces, jouées en 1924 et 1926.

Puis, installé à Hollywood, il devient producteur de cinéma (souvent associé) à l'occasion de Penguin Pool Murder de George Archainbaud (1932, avec Edna May Oliver et Robert Armstrong). Parmi ses quarante-sept autres films américains à ce poste (pour la RKO puis la Fox principalement), citons Les Quatre Filles du docteur March de George Cukor (1933, avec Katharine Hepburn et Joan Bennett), Becky Sharp de Rouben Mamoulian (1935, avec Miriam Hopkins et Frances Dee), Vers sa destinée de John Ford (1939, avec Henry Fonda et Alice Brady), Chasse à l'homme de Fritz Lang (1941, avec Walter Pidgeon et Joan Bennett), ou encore Lifeboat d'Alfred Hitchcock (son avant-dernière production, 1944, avec Tallulah Bankhead et William Bendix).

Mentionnons aussi le court métrage musical La Cucaracha de Lloyd Corrigan (1934, avec Steffi Duna et Don Alvarado) — tourné en Technicolor, comme Becky Sharp précité — qui lui permet de gagner l'Oscar du meilleur court métrage de fiction.

Le dernier film que Kenneth Macgowan produit (pour la Paramount) est Easy Come, Easy Go de John Farrow (avec Barry Fitzgerald et Diana Lynn), sorti en 1947. La même année, il crée un département théâtre à l'Université de Californie à Los Angeles (UCLA).

Best films

Little Women (1933)
(Associate Producer)
In Old Chicago (1938)
(Associate Producer)
Tin Pan Alley (1940)
(Associate Producer)
Jane Eyre (1943)
(Producer)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Kenneth Macgowan (41 films)

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Producer

Lifeboat
Lifeboat (1944)
, 1h36
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films, Children's films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull
Roles Producer
Rating75% 3.798023.798023.798023.798023.79802
Several British and U.S. civilians, service members and merchant marines are stuck in a lifeboat in the North Atlantic after their ship and a U-boat sink each other in combat. Willi (Walter Slezak), a German survivor, is pulled aboard and denies being the U-boat's captain. During an animated debate, Kovac (John Hodiak) demands the German be thrown out to drown. However, the others object, with Stanley (Hume Cronyn), wealthy industrialist Rittenhouse (Henry Hull) and columnist Connie Porter (Tallulah Bankhead), who speaks German, succeeding in arguing that he be allowed to stay. Porter, initially alone in the boat, had managed to bring her luggage with her, and her primary concern at first is a run in her stocking. She is thrilled at having filmed the battle between the two vessels, but her movie camera is the first in a series of her possessions to be lost overboard in a succession of incidents.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre (1943)
, 1h32
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, Sara Allgood, Henry Daniell
Roles Producer
Rating74% 3.744853.744853.744853.744853.74485
Orphaned, unloved, and unwanted ten-year-old Jane Eyre (Peggy Ann Garner) lives with her cruel and selfish, uncaring paternal aunt, Mrs. Reed (Agnes Moorehead) of Gateshead Hall. Jane is ecstatic when Mrs. Reed, eager to be rid of the child, arranges for Jane to be sent to Lowood Institution, a charity boarding school for young girls, run by the disciplinarian Reverend Brocklehurst (Henry Daniell).
Happy Land
Happy Land (1943)
, 1h15
Directed by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Ann Rutherford, Cara Williams, Harry Morgan
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.34013.34013.34013.34013.3401
While at a luncheon with his wife, Lew Marsh receives a message that his only beloved son Rusty has been killed in action. Lew, a third generation pharmacist in the small town of Hartfield, Iowa, is beside himself with grief, and beyond consolation from reverend Wood and his wife, Agnes. Because of the grief he neglects his duties at the pharmacy and isolates himself.
Hudson's Bay, 1h35
Directed by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Children's films
Actors Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, Vincent Price, John Sutton, Nigel Bruce
Roles Associate Producer
Rating62% 3.1461453.1461453.1461453.1461453.146145
A trapper, Pierre Esprit Radisson, and his friend, nicknamed "Gooseberry," hope to open a trading post in the Hudson's Bay region of northeastern Canada in the year 1667.
Belle Starr, 1h27
Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Western
Themes Political films, Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Gene Tierney, Randolph Scott, Dana Andrews, Shepperd Strudwick, Elizabeth Patterson, Chill Wills
Roles Producer
Rating57% 2.8523352.8523352.8523352.8523352.852335
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr (Randolph Scott), Belle Shirley (Gene Tierney) vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
Man Hunt
Man Hunt (1941)
, 1h38
Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, Frederick Worlock
Roles Producer
Rating71% 3.5968353.5968353.5968353.5968353.596835
On July 29, 1939, renowned British big game hunter Captain Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) slips through the forest undetected near the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's residence near Berchtesgaden. Getting the dictator in his telescopic sight, he pulls the trigger on his unloaded rifle and gives a wave. He ponders a moment, then loads a live round, but is discovered at the last second by a guard, and the shot goes wild.
The Return of Frank James, 1h32
Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Western
Themes Jesse James, Children's films
Actors Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull, John Carradine, Donald Meek
Roles Associate Producer
Rating65% 3.293433.293433.293433.293433.29343
After the death of his outlaw brother, Jesse (played in the earlier film by Tyrone Power), Frank James (Henry Fonda) seeks revenge on his killers, Bob and Charlie Ford (John Carradine and Charles Tannen).
Stanley and Livingstone, 1h41
Directed by Otto Brower, Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Children's films
Actors Spencer Tracy, Cedric Hardwicke, Nancy Kelly, Walter Brennan, Richard Greene, Charles Coburn
Roles Producer
Rating69% 3.492023.492023.492023.492023.49202
Henry Stanley is a fearless newspaper reporter ready to do whatever it takes to get a story, regardless of any danger to his life. Colonel Grimes tells two peace commissioners sent from Washington DC that he cannot permit them to try to contact the Indians of the Wyoming Territory of 1870, as it would be suicidal, only to have Stanley emerge from the wilderness, escorted by a band of the natives and his guide, Jeff Slocum (Walter Brennan).
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, 1h38
Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Children's films
Actors Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Beryl Mercer, Gene Lockhart
Roles Associate Producer
Rating69% 3.4894953.4894953.4894953.4894953.489495
The first half of the film concentrates on the hero's romantic, financial, and scientific struggles, starting in 1873. Most scenes are set in Boston and vicinity; a few late scenes are in London.
Susannah of the Mounties, 1h18
Directed by Walter Lang, William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Margaret Lockwood, Victor Jory, Lester Matthews, J. Farrell MacDonald
Roles Producer
Rating63% 3.196993.196993.196993.196993.19699
As the Canadian Pacific Railway makes its way through the western frontier of Canada in the early 1880s, railroad workers and settlers come under frequent attack by Indians who resent the white man's encroachment on their land. One such attack on a wagon train leaves only one survivor of the Indian massacre, a young girl named Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) who is found by a mounted patrol in the command of Inspector Angus "Monty" Montague. The young girl is taken back to the post where she is adopted by Monty (Randolph Scott) and his friend, Pat O'Hannegan (J. Farrell MacDonald). The two men do their best to help the girl overcome her terrible ordeal.
Young Mr. Lincoln, 1h40
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Western
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan, Richard Cromwell, Donald Meek
Roles Associate Producer
Rating74% 3.7458253.7458253.7458253.7458253.745825
A family traveling through New Salem, Illinois in their wagon need groceries from Lincoln's store and the only thing of value they have is a barrel of old books including a law book, Blackstone's Commentaries. After thoroughly reading the book, Abe opts for the law after receiving encouragement from his early, ill-fated love, Ann Rutledge (Pauline Moore). Too poor to own even a horse, he arrives in Springfield on a mule and soon establishes a law practice with friend John Stuart (Edwin Maxwell). At a July 4 celebration, a man is murdered in a brawl – the accused are two brothers. Lincoln prevents the lynching of the accused at the jail by telling the angry mob he really needs these clients for his first real case. Admiring his courage, Mary Todd (Marjorie Weaver) – later to be his wife – invites Lincoln to her sister's soiree and expresses an intense interest in his future.