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Walter Lang
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Director Born: August 10, 1898 in Memphis, TN Death: February 7, 1972 in Palm Springs, CA Biography:After a checkered early career as actor, illustrator, stage director and assistant film director, "Walter Lang" was hired by "Dorothy Davenport" -- aka Mrs. "Wallace Reid" -- to wield the megaphone on her "socially conscious" features (Davenport developed this consciousness after her husband died of morphine addiction). Lang's first feature-film directorial credit was "The Red Kimono" (1925), a delicately handled prostitution drama. After parting company with Davenport, Lang worked at the fledgling Columbia Pictures, briefly shelving his career during the early talkie era to try his luck as a commercial artist. Back in Hollywood in 1932, Lang inaugurated his long association with Fox Studios (later 20th Century-Fox) with "The Warrior's Husband" (1932). Lang's Fox output consisted mainly of frothy romantic comedies and lush Technicolor musicals. He was instrumental in developing the movie stardom of... Full Biography
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