James Leo Meehan
James Leo Meehan | |
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Born | July 22, 1891 |
Died | November 8, 1943 (aged 52) San Francisco, California, United States |
Occupation | Director, Writer |
Years active | 1921-1930 (film) |
James Leo Meehan (1891–1943) was an American film director and screenwriter.[1] He married the daughter of writer Gene Stratton-Porter, and adapted several of his mother-in-law's novels for the screen.
He directed Campus Sweethearts (US 1930 RKO, 27 min, only shown at State Lake, Chicago - Natural Vision also shown in 35 mm) starring Rudy Vallee with Ginger Rogers among the cast. It is one of the early wide-gauge films.
Selected filmography[]
- Michael O'Halloran (1923)
- A Girl of the Limberlost (1924)
- The Keeper of the Bees (1925)
- Laddie (1926)
- The Magic Garden (1927)
- Naughty Nanette (1927)
- The Harvester (1927)
- Judgment of the Hills (1927)
- Little Mickey Grogan (1927)
- Wallflowers (1928)
- The Little Yellow House (1928)
- (1930)
References[]
- ^ Munden p.411
Bibliography[]
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1891 births
- 1943 deaths
- American film directors
- People from Illinois
- 20th-century American screenwriters
- American film biography stubs