Harry Beaumont
Harry Beaumont was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He worked for a variety of production companies including Fox, Goldwyn, Metro, Warner Brothers, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Career
Beaumont's greatest successes were during the silent film era, when he directed films including John Barrymore's Beau Brummel and the silent youth movie Our Dancing Daughters, featuring Joan Crawford. He then directed MGM's first talkie musical, The Broadway Melody. The latter film won the Best Picture Academy Award that year, and Beaumont was nominated for Best Director.Personal life and death
Beaumont was married to actress Hazel Daly. The couple had twin daughters Anne and Geraldine, born in 1922.On 22 December 1966, Beaumont died at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. His gravesite is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.
Filmography
Director
The Truant Soul Skinner's Dress Suit Burning the Candle Skinner's Bubble Filling His Own Shoes Skinner's Baby Go West, Young Man Thirty a Week Brown of Harvard A Wild Goose Chase- The Little Rowdy One of the Finest Heartsease A Man and His Money The City of Comrades The Gay Lord Quex Lord and Lady Algy Toby's Bow Dollars and Sense The Great Accident Going Some Stop Thief! The Fourteenth Man June Madness The Five Dollar Baby The Ragged Heiress They Like 'Em Rough Love in the Dark Seeing's Believing Glass Houses Very Truly Yours Lights of the Desert Crinoline and Romance Main Street A Noise in Newboro The Gold Diggers Beau Brummel Babbitt The Lover of Camille Don't Doubt Your Husband A Lost Lady His Majesty, Bunker Bean Rose of the World Recompense Sandy Womanpower One Increasing Purpose Forbidden Hours Our Dancing Daughters A Single Man The Broadway Melody Speedway Our Blushing Brides The Florodora Girl Children of Pleasure Lord Byron of Broadway Those Three French Girls Dance, Fools, Dance Laughing Sinners The Great Lover West of Broadway Faithless Are You Listening? Unashamed Made on Broadway Should Ladies Behave When Ladies Meet Murder in the Private Car Enchanted April The Girl on the Front Page When's Your Birthday? Maisie Goes to Reno Twice Blessed Up Goes Maisie The Show-Off Undercover Maisie Alias a Gentleman
- ''Great Day''
Writer
Burning the Candle Filling His Own Shoes Brown of Harvard The Little Rowdy- ''June Madness''