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Edward Laemmle (October 25, 1887 – April 2, 1937) was an American film director of the silent era. He directed more than 60 films between 1920 and 1935.
Edward Laemmle. Director: The Still Alarm. Edward Laemmle started his film-industry career at Universal Pictures in 1915 when Carl Laemmle--his uncle and also the founder and owner of the studio--asked him to leave his college electrical engineering studies and join him at his recently purchased 230-acre location on Lankersheim Blvd. in the San ...
- Director, Producer, Writer
- October 25, 1887
- Edward Laemmle
- April 2, 1937
Edward Laemmle, film director and nephew of Carl Laemmle, pioneer motion-picture producer, died of a heart attack last night. His age was 49. View Full Article in Timesmachine »
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The nepotism was real enough, Freedman says. At one point, something like 70 Laemmle relatives were working for the studio. "The line about Universal was, it was the only studio in Hollywood where the executives called the janitors 'sir,' for fear they were talking to the boss's cousin's brother-in-law," Freedman says. Among those on his payroll wa...
Laemmle formed his first film company in 1909, the mischievously named IMP — Independent Motion Pictures. IMP deviled the motion picture establishment for years, running snide advertisements about the licensing fee, and coaxing actors away from other studios with the promise that IMP, at least, would publicize their names. By 1912, IMP had become U...
But in 1930s, real-life horrors were starting to crowd the make-believe ones that stalked the crumbling castles at Universal. Hitler was on the march; many of Laemmle Sr.'s relatives in Germany were directly threatened. So for the second time in his life, he became a gadfly. "In order to get somebody into the U.S., you had to file an affidavit sayi...
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The Texas Bad Man is a 1932 American Western film directed by Edward Laemmle, written by Jack Cunningham and Richard Schayer, and starring Tom Mix, Lucille Powers, Willard Robertson, Fred Kohler, Joseph W. Girard and Tetsu Komai.
Spook Ranch is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Edward Laemmle (Carl Laemmle's nephew) and starring Hoot Gibson. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film featured white actor Ed Cowles in blackface playing Hoot Gibson's black sidekick, George Washington Black.
Firefighters and the dangerous, dramatic work of firefighting are perennially popular topics for Hollywood films. Universal Pictures' The Still Alarm, directed by Edward Laemmle and released in 1926, was based on a stage play first produced in 1887.
