Monta Bell

Film Director

Male

Born Feb 5, 1891

Hometown Washington DC

Died Feb 4, 1958

Death Place Hollywood

Monta Bell was an American film director, film producer and film editor.

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Betty Lawford
Married 1931 - 1937
Norma Shearer
Dated

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Video; A Tragic Actress's Twilight, Burning, Not Dimming
NYTimes - Jul 17, 2011

The Letter Long overshadowed by William Wyler's 1940 remake starring Bette Davis, the first filming, from 1929, of W. Somerset Maugham's stage play ''The Letter'' has re-emerged, thanks to a new DVD edition from Warner Archive. As the only surviving sound film of the radically innovative Broadway star Jeanne Eagels, the film is an important piece
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Bailando Con Ginger Rogers Sur Digital (Andalucía)
Google News - Jul 16, 2011

Debutó en un filme menor de Monta Bell, en 1930, 'Young Man of Manhattan'. Un papel pequeño bajo la sombra de Claudette Colbert. Mientras Ginger hacía pruebas para otras películas, Broadway la llamó otra vez para participar en un nuevo musical,
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A Tragic Actress's Twilight, Burning, Not Dimming New York Times
Google News - Jul 15, 2011

She could still work for the movies, and Paramount's East Coast production chief, Monta Bell, shrewdly cast her in “The Letter,” a Maugham play that had closed on Broadway after only 104 performances, with the regal Katherine Cornell in the lead
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Critic's Choice: New Dv Ds
NYTimes - May 29, 2007

Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniversary Celebration The centenaries are mounting up this year: We've already had Laurence Olivier (May 22) and John Wayne (May 26); approaching are Barbara Stanwyck (July 16), Rosalind Russell (June 4), Fay Wray (Sept. 15) and Gene Autry (Sept. 29). Katharine Hepburn's 100th birthday was May 12, though for years she
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1891 Birth Born in 1891.

THIRTIES

1923 32 Years Old Starting as a journalist in Washington DC, Bell later played on stage and entered films in 1923 as an actor.

1924 33 Years Old Charlie Chaplin employed Bell as a film editor and assistant director and in 1924, he became a full-fledged director of sophisticated sex comedies. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1958 67 Years Old He died on February 4, 1958 at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital, one day before his 67th birthday. … Read More

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