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Irving Cummings(1888-1959)

  • Actor
  • Director
  • Producer
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Irving Cummings
New York-born Irving Cummings began his career as an actor on the Broadway stage in his late teens, and appeared with the legendary Lillian Russell's company. He entered films in 1909 as an actor, and became a very popular leading man in the early 1920s. He began directing at around that time, turning out mostly action films and an occasional comedy, but he really came into his own in the 1930s at 20th Century-Fox. Cummings specialized in the big, splashy Technicolor musicals for which Fox became known, and was responsible for many of Betty Grable's, Alice Faye's and Shirley Temple's most enjoyable films.
BornOctober 9, 1888
DiedApril 18, 1959(70)
BornOctober 9, 1888
DiedApril 18, 1959(70)
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  • Nominated for 1 Oscar

Photos51

Irving Cummings and Pauline Frederick in The World's Great Snare (1916)
Irving Cummings and Josephine West in A Polar Romance (1915)
Irving Cummings and Virginia Kirtley in When the Fire Bell Rang (1915)
Irving Cummings in The Varsity Race (1914)
Irving Cummings in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
Irving Cummings and Pearl Sindelar in A Leech of Industry (1914)
Irving Cummings and Eleanor Woodruff in A Sword of Damocles (1914)
Irving Cummings in The Resurrection (1914)
Irving Cummings and Rosemary Theby in The Stolen Woman (1913)
Irving Cummings and Rosemary Theby in The Fight for Right (1913)
Irving Cummings in Ashes (1913)
Irving Cummings and Rosemary Theby in Her Rosary (1913)

Known for

Shirley Temple and John Boles in Curly Top (1935)
Curly Top
6.8
  • Director
  • 1935
Environment (1922)
Environment
  • Director
  • 1922
Warner Baxter, Dorothy Burgess, and Edmund Lowe in In Old Arizona (1928)
In Old Arizona
5.6
  • Director
  • 1928
Behind That Curtain (1929)
Behind That Curtain
4.8
  • Director
  • 1929

Credits

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Actor

  • Jean Arthur in The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
    The Devil and Miss Jones
    • (uncredited)
  • Herbert Marshall, Ruth Chatterton, and Simone Simon in Girls' Dormitory (1936)
    Girls' Dormitory
    • (uncredited)
  • Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927)
    Life in Hollywood No. 3
  • Viola Dana, Tom Kennedy, and Milton Sills in As Man Desires (1925)
    As Man Desires
  • Elaine Hammerstein and Bert Lytell in Rupert of Hentzau (1923)
    Rupert of Hentzau
  • Norma Talmadge in The Eternal Flame (1922)
    The Eternal Flame
  • Wallace Beery, Irving Cummings, Eva Novak, and Rin Tin Tin in The Man from Hell's River (1922)
    The Man from Hell's River
  • The Avenger
  • Campbell of the Mounted
  • Valley of the Missing
  • Jules of the River
  • Trapped
  • Cameron of the Royal Mounted (1921)
    Cameron of the Royal Mounted
  • Irving Cummings in The False Trail (1921)
    The False Trail
  • Irving Cummings in The Rope's End (1921)
    The Rope's End

Director

  • Groucho Marx, Jane Russell, and Frank Sinatra in Double Dynamite (1951)
    Double Dynamite
  • Betty Grable, Reginald Gardiner, June Haver, Frank Latimore, John Payne, and S.Z. Sakall in The Dolly Sisters (1945)
    The Dolly Sisters
  • Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, and Lee Bowman in The Impatient Years (1944)
    The Impatient Years
  • Brian Aherne, Willard Parker, and Rosalind Russell in What a Woman! (1943)
    What a Woman!
  • Robert Young, Betty Grable, and Adolphe Menjou in Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
    Sweet Rosie O'Grady
  • Carmen Miranda, Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Harry James, and John Payne in Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
    Springtime in the Rockies
  • Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature, and Carole Landis in My Gal Sal (1942)
    My Gal Sal
  • Bob Hope, Irène Bordoni, Victor Moore, and Vera Zorina in Louisiana Purchase (1941)
    Louisiana Purchase
  • Randolph Scott and Gene Tierney in Belle Starr (1941)
    Belle Starr
  • Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, and Alice Faye in That Night in Rio (1941)
    That Night in Rio
  • Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, and Betty Grable in Down Argentine Way (1940)
    Down Argentine Way
  • Alice Faye in Lillian Russell (1940)
    Lillian Russell
  • Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, and Sonja Henie in Everything Happens at Night (1939)
    Everything Happens at Night
  • Buster Keaton, Don Ameche, Hank Mann, Eddie Collins, Heinie Conklin, Alan Curtis, Stuart Erwin, Alice Faye, and James Finlayson in Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
    Hollywood Cavalcade
  • Henry Fonda, Don Ameche, and Loretta Young in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
    The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

Producer

  • Bobby Diamond, Peter Graves, and Highland Dale in Fury (1955)
    Fury
  • Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, and Lee Bowman in The Impatient Years (1944)
    The Impatient Years
  • Brian Aherne, Willard Parker, and Rosalind Russell in What a Woman! (1943)
    What a Woman!
    • (uncredited)
  • Behind That Curtain (1929)
    Behind That Curtain
  • Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923)
    Broken Hearts of Broadway
  • East Side - West Side (1923)
    East Side - West Side
  • The Drug Traffic (1923)
    The Drug Traffic
  • Environment (1922)
    Environment
  • Flesh and Blood (1922)
    Flesh and Blood
  • Wallace Beery, Irving Cummings, Eva Novak, and Rin Tin Tin in The Man from Hell's River (1922)
    The Man from Hell's River
  • Irving Cummings in The False Trail (1921)
    The False Trail
  • Irving Cummings in The Rope's End (1921)
    The Rope's End
  • Irving Cummings in Corporal Jim's Ward (1921)
    Corporal Jim's Ward
  • Irving Cummings in Patsy's Jim (1921)
    Patsy's Jim
  • Irving Cummings in Tricked (1921)
    Tricked

Personal details

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    • October 9, 1888
    • New York City, New York, USA
    • April 18, 1959
    • Los Angeles, California, USA(heart ailment)
    • Ruth CummingsApril 13, 1917 - April 18, 1959 (his death, 2 children)
  • Stage actor and film director.
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    • 17 Articles

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    Irving and Ruth (Sinclair) Cummings had two children: screenwriter Irving Cummings Jr. and Jessie Cummings.

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