Delmer Daves

Director

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Birth Place

San Francisco, California, USA

Born

July 24, 1904

Died

August 17, 1977

Biography

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Accomplished visual stylist who often wrote his own imaginative, and genre-defying, screenplays; his films are always technically proficient but sometimes lack substance. As a teenager Daves lived for a time with native American Indians, an experience which informed his 1950 film "Broken Arrow," one of the first sympathetic treatments of American Indians to reach the screen....

Filmography

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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)

Youngblood Hawke (1964)

Spencer's Mountain (1963)

Rome Adventure (1962)

Susan Slade (1961)

Photos & Videos

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Summer Place, A (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I've Been A Good Girl!

Summer Place, A (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Waiting To Be Kissed

Family & Companions

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Mary Lawrence

Wife

Actor, author. Married from 1938 until Daves' death in 1977; died on September 24, 1991 of complications of pneumonia at the age of 73; appeared on TV series "Love That Bob" (1956-58); married banker Samuel Doak Young Sr after Daves' death; wrote art books "Mother and Child" (1975) and "Lovers" (1982).

Biography

Accomplished visual stylist who often wrote his own imaginative, and genre-defying, screenplays; his films are always technically proficient but sometimes lack substance. As a teenager Daves lived for a time with native American Indians, an experience which informed his 1950 film "Broken Arrow," one of the first sympathetic treatments of American Indians to reach the screen.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)

Youngblood Hawke (1964)

Spencer's Mountain (1963)

Rome Adventure (1962)

Susan Slade (1961)

A Summer Place (1959)

The Hanging Tree (1959)

The Badlanders (1958)

Kings Go Forth (1958)

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

The Last Wagon (1956)

Drum Beat (1954)

Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)

Never Let Me Go (1953)

Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953)

Return of the Texan (1952)

Bird of Paradise (1951)

Broken Arrow (1950)

Task Force (1949)

A Kiss in the Dark (1949)

To the Victor (1948)

Dark Passage (1947)

The Red House (1947)

Pride of the Marines (1945)

Hollywood Canteen (1944)

Destination Tokyo (1944)

The Very Thought of You (1944)

Cast (Feature Film)

Good News (1930)

The Bishop Murder Case (1930)

Raymond Sperling

The Duke Steps Out (1929)

Christmas Memories (1915)

Writer (Feature Film)

Love Affair (1994)

Love Affair (1994)

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)

Youngblood Hawke (1964)

Spencer's Mountain (1963)

Rome Adventure (1962)

Susan Slade (1961)

A Summer Place (1959)

An Affair to Remember (1957)

The Last Wagon (1956)

White Feather (1955)

Drum Beat (1954)

Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953)

Bird of Paradise (1951)

Task Force (1949)

Dark Passage (1947)

The Red House (1947)

Wrt for the Screenplay by

Destination Tokyo (1944)

Hollywood Canteen (1944)

Original Screenplay

The Very Thought of You (1944)

Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Original Screenplay

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

Unexpected Uncle (1941)

Night of January 16th (1941)

It All Came True (1940)

The Farmer's Daughter (1940)

Love Affair (1939)

$1,000 a Touchdown (1939)

Original story and Screenplay

Professor Beware (1938)

The Singing Marine (1937)

Original Screenplay

The Go Getter (1937)

She Married an Artist (1937)

Ever Since Eve (1937)

Contr to Screenplay const

The Petrified Forest (1936)

Stranded (1935)

Shipmates Forever (1935)

Story and Screenplay

Page Miss Glory (1935)

Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)

Contr to Screenplay const

Flirtation Walk (1934)

No More Women (1934)

Flirtation Walk (1934)

Clear All Wires (1933)

Divorce in the Family (1932)

Divorce in the Family (1932)

Shipmates (1931)

Shipmates (1931)

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)

So This Is College (1929)

Producer (Feature Film)

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)

Youngblood Hawke (1964)

Spencer's Mountain (1963)

Rome Adventure (1962)

Susan Slade (1961)

A Summer Place (1959)

Drum Beat (1954)

Music (Feature Film)

Christmas Memories (1915)

Production Companies (Feature Film)

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)

Spencer's Mountain (1963)

Rome Adventure (1962)

Susan Slade (1961)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Going Hollywood: The War Years (1988)

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

Life Events

1923

First film as prop boy, "The Covered Wagon"

1943

Film directing debut, "Destination Tokyo"

Photo Collections

The Badlanders - Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Here are a few photos taken behind-the-scenes during production of The Badlanders (1958), starring Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine.

Videos

Summer Place, A (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I've Been A Good Girl! Rescued teens Molly (Sandra Dee) and John (Troy Donahue) return from their night stranded on a coastal island, her mother Helen (Constance Ford) assuming they have sinned, in Delmer Daves' A Summer Place, 1959.

Summer Place, A (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Waiting To Be Kissed A version of the giant hit theme song by Max Steiner accompanies Johnny (Troy Donahue), son of the troubled couple that owns the resort, escorting Sandra Dee (as Molly), daughter of the VIP guests, with provocative talk and shots from writer-producer-director Delmer Daves in A Summer Place, 1959, from the novel by Sloan Wilson.

Summer Place, A (1959) -- (Movie Clip) We've Spoiled Two Lives Critical revelations as well-to-do Ken (Richard Egan), visiting the island inn owned by Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire) and her useless boozy husband Bart, steps in to fix the roof and revisit their implied but so-far not confirmed old romance, a big moment in Delmer Davis’ hit melodrama A Summer Place, 1959, also starring Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue.

Jubal (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Most Horses Is Better Than Humans First scene after the opening, in which rancher Shep (Ernest Borgnine) found Glenn Ford (title character) staggering out of the Wyoming woods, introducing Pinky (Rod Steiger), Sam (Noah Beery Jr.) and Carson (John Dierkes), in Jubal, 1956, directed by Delmer Daves, often cited as a Western treatment of Shakespeare’s Othello.

Jubal (1956) -- (Movie Clip) They'll Steal You Blind Director Delmer Daves introduces key characters, as new ranch foreman Glenn Ford (title character) has to intervene when Pinky (Rod Steiger) and friends tangle with a caravan of Christian pilgrims (Basil Ruysdael as Shem Hoktor, Felicia Farr his daughter, Charles Bronson riding shotgun), in Jubal, 1956.

Jubal (1956) -- (Movie Clip) We're Ending This Before It Starts Joining dinner with big-hearted rancher Shep (Ernest Borgnine) who’s taken a liking to his new hand (Glenn Ford, title character) and offers him a job, with no idea about the misdeeds of his youthful Canadian wife Mae (English ingenue Valerie French, in her first Hollywood role), in director Delmer Daves’ dark Western, Jubal, 1956.

Jubal (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You Might Get Burned Glenn Ford (title character) is winning over folks at the Wyoming cattle ranch, where he was brought by the owner who found him wandering in the mountains, especially the rancher’s young wife Mae (Valerie French), whose intentions are barely disguised, in director Delmer Daves’ Jubal, 1956.

Jubal (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Promised Land, I Guess If you wondered whey they were called “psychological Westerns,” ranch foreman Glenn Ford (title character) surprises himself, opening up to Naomi (Felicia Farr), whose father leads a band of pilgrims passing through, in Jubal, 1956, Delmer Daves directing from the screenplay he co-wrote with Russell S. Hughes, from a novel by Paul I. Wellman.

Hanging Tree, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Maybe Forever Vagrant Rune (Ben Piazza), seen stealing from a gold sluice in the new Montana mining town of Skull Creek, and shot by pursuing miners, meets Doc (Gary Cooper), who is new in town and whose background is so far unknown, early in Delmer Daves’ The Hanging Tree, 1959.

Broken Arrow (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Cochise Having spent a month learning Apache language and customs, and a big riding-in sequence from director Delmer Daves, Arizona scout Jeffords (James Stewart), having decided on his own to negotiate with Cochise (Jeff Chandler) to permit mail service, meets the imposing chief, in Broken Arrow, 1950.

Broken Arrow (1950) -- (Movie Clip) White Painted Lady Received into the Arizona stronghold of Apache leader Cochise (Jeff Chandler), scout and former soldier Jeffords (James Stewart), seeking negotiations over mail service, observes tribal customs and meets young initiate Sonseeahray (Debra Paget), in Delmer Daves’ Broken Arrow, 1950.

Destination Tokyo (1943) -- (Movie Clip) I Never Seen A Doll On A Submarine Officers under command of Captain Cassidy (Cary Grant) take the U.S.S. Copperfin out, crewmen Tin Can (Dane Clark), Mike (Tom Tully), Cookie (Alan Hale) and Wolf (John Garfield) introduced, in Delmer Daves' Destination Tokyo, 1943.

Hollywood Canteen -- (Original Trailer) Half of Hollywood pitches in to help a serviceman and a starlet find love at the Hollywood Canteen (1944)

Singing Marine, The - (Original Trailer) A young Marine (Dick Powell) develops an inflated ego after winning a talent contest in The Singing Marine (1937), the movie that gave the U.S. Marines their theme song.

Hanging Tree, The - (Original Trailer) A doctor (Gary Cooper) saves a man from hanging then tries to run his life in The Hanging Tree (1959).

Flirtation Walk - (Original Trailer) 42nd Street stars Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler head a musical salute to West Point in Flirtation Walk (1934).

Petrified Forest, The - (Original Trailer) An escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage in The Petrified Forest (1936) starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis & Humphrey Bogart.

3:10 To Yuma (1957) - (Original Trailer) A rancher (Van Heflin) must run the gauntlet to get a prisoner (Glenn Ford) to the 3:10 To Yuma, directed by Delmer Daves.

Shipmates Forever - (Original Trailer) An admiral's son (Dick Powell) gives up the Navy for a career as a song-and-dance man in the musical Shipmates Forever (1935).

Susan Slade - (Original Trailer) A pregnant teen (Connie Stevens) allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own in Susan Slade (1961).

Dark Passage - (Original Trailer) A man falsely accused of his wife's murder escapes to search for the real killer in Dark Passage, 1947, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

Demetrius and the Gladiators - (Original Trailer) Victor Mature is sentenced to be a gladiator in the sequel to The Robe, Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954).

Task Force -- (Original Trailer) Gary Cooper plays a naval officer who devotes his life to the development of the aircraft carrier in Task Force (1949).

Unexpected Uncle - (Original Trailer) A bored retiree (Charles Coburn) decides to play matchmaker in Unexpected Uncle (1941).

Companions

Mary Lawrence

Wife

Actor, author. Married from 1938 until Daves' death in 1977; died on September 24, 1991 of complications of pneumonia at the age of 73; appeared on TV series "Love That Bob" (1956-58); married banker Samuel Doak Young Sr after Daves' death; wrote art books "Mother and Child" (1975) and "Lovers" (1982).

Bibliography

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