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Andrew L. Stone
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: July 16, 1902 in Oakland, CA Death: June 9, 1999 in Oakland, CA Biography:As a student at the University of California, "Andrew Stone" got a leg up on most other aspiring filmmakers by getting a studio job while still in school. After starting as an employee of a San Francisco film distributor, he moved to Hollywood and took a job in a film lab in the mid '20s, and moved into the director's chair in 1927 as a maker of short films at Paramount. He began making features in 1928, but had alargely undistinguished career, sparked by a few pleasant musical subjects (The Hard-Boiled Canary [1941]) and one classic ("Stormy Weather" [1943]), along with one bizarre thriller, "Julie" (1956), in which "Doris Day" plays a stewardess forced to land a plane when her estranged husband shoots both pilots. In 1960, however, Stone and his wife Virginia embarked on an ambitious program of independent production with some fascinating results -- the first of their efforts, "Cry Terror", starring... Full Biography
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