Edgar Selwyn

Director, Producer

About

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Birth Place
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Born
October 12, 1875
Died
February 13, 1944

Filmography

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The Mystery of Mr. X (1934)
Director
Turn Back the Clock (1933)
Director
Men Must Fight (1933)
Director
Skyscraper Souls (1932)
Director
Men Call It Love (1931)
Director
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
Director

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Skyscraper Souls -- (Movie Clip) Top Of The World

Family & Companions

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Ruth Wilcox Selwyn
Wife
Actor. Born 1905, died 1954.

Biography

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

The Mystery of Mr. X (1934)
Director
Turn Back the Clock (1933)
Director
Men Must Fight (1933)
Director
Skyscraper Souls (1932)
Director
Men Call It Love (1931)
Director
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
Director
War Nurse (1930)
Director
The Girl in the Show (1929)
Director

Cast (Feature Film)

The Arab (1915)
Jamil
Pierre of the Plains (1914)
Pierre

Writer (Feature Film)

Chained (1934)
Original Story
Chained (1934)
Contract Writer
The Barbarian (1933)
Story
Turn Back the Clock (1933)
Screenwriter
The Girl in the Show (1929)
Adaptation
The Girl in the Show (1929)
Additional Dialogue
Night Life of New York (1925)
Story
For Better, for Worse (1919)
Story
Dodging a Million (1918)
Story

Producer (Feature Film)

Pierre of the Plains (1942)
Producer
Washington Melodrama (1941)
Producer
The Golden Fleecing (1940)
Producer
Dulcy (1940)
Producer
The Kid from Texas (1939)
Producer
Bridal Suite (1939)
Producer
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
Producer
Dancing Co-Ed (1939)
Producer
Baby Face Harrington (1935)
Producer

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Skyscraper Souls -- (Movie Clip) Make Up For Lost Time Opening shot confirms that the tower in our story dwarfs the Empire State Building, gregarious Tom (Norman Foster) meets heroine Lynn (Maureen O'Sullivan) who then joins dressmaker Vinmont (Gregory Ratoff), in Skyscraper Souls, 1932.
Skyscraper Souls -- (Movie Clip) Top Of The World Greedy banker Dwight (Warren William) toying with investors led by Brewster (Purnell B. Pratt), who then receives merger candidate Hamilton (Arnold Lucy), early in MGM's Skyscraper Souls, 1932.
Chained (1934) -- (Movie Clip) So You're The Hero? Aroused Johnnie (Stuart Erwin) seeks suave pal Mike (Clark Gable) for help in wooing a babe (Joan Crawford) he's just met in the ship's bar, early in Clarence Brown's Chained, 1934.
Barbarian, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Is Everyone In Egypt A Shriner? Hustling interpreter-for-hire Jamil (Ramon Novarro) is working the Cairo train station when his head is turned by Diana (Myrna Loy), arriving with her assistant (Louise Closser Hale), greeted by her uncle (C. Aubrey Smith), then fiance` Gerald (Reginald Denny), early in The Barbarian, 1933.
Barbarian, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Also A Prince Full marks to director Sam Wood for getting his leading lady (Myrna Loy, as "Diana") undressed, unaware she's being watched in her Cairo hotel by obsequious servant and guide Jamil (Ramon Novarro), her fiance` Gerald (Reginald Denny) soon breaking things up, in The Barbarian, 1933.
Men Must Fight (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Four Leaf Clover First World War somewhere in France, flier Jeff (Robert Young) and his new lover nurse Laura (Diana Wynyard), some sense of foreboding, opening MGM's near-future anti-war drama Men Must Fight, 1933.
Men Must Fight (1933) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Stop Making Men! Diana Wynyard as Laura, wife of the Secretary of State, with a radical anti-war speech to women, taking place in near-future 1940, with fancy tech to match, in MGM's Men Must Fight, 1940.
Men Must Fight (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Our Son Will Never Take Part New York, end of the first World War, Laura (Diana Wynyard) with husband Ned (Lewis Stone), big diplomat and adoptive father of her son, who grows up to be Phillips Holmes, in near-future 1940, with Peggy (Ruth Selwyn) on a steamer, in Men Must Fight, 1933.
Possessed (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Rich? Big shots Whitney (Clark Gable) and Travers (Frank Conroy) have just arrived when small town visitor Marian (Joan Crawford), sent packing by host Wally (Skeets Gallagher), sneaks back in claiming a lost hat, in Possessed, 1931.
Possessed (1931) -- (Movie Clip) You Turnip! Factory girl Marian (Joan Crawford), fresh from an unlikely meeting at the train depot, comes home to mother (Clara Blandick) and oppressive boyfriend Al (Wallace Ford), early in MGM's Possessed, 1931.
Bridal Suite (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Opposite Of Amnesia American playboy Neil (Robert Young), in Switzerland aiming to be diagnosed with amnesia, gets grabby with innkeeper Luise (Annabella), a musical interlude in MGM's Bridal Suite, 1939.
Bridal Suite (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Probably The Altitude Arriving in Switzerland intending to have him diagnosed as an amnesiac, playboy Neil (Robert Young) and mother (Billie Burke) are greeted by innkeeper Luise (Annabella), in MGM's Bridal Suite, 1939.

Companions

Ruth Wilcox Selwyn
Wife
Actor. Born 1905, died 1954.

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