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Allan Dwan (born Joseph Aloysius Dwan; April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.
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Jun 5, 2013 · The Films of Allan Dwan. You don’t need to speak French to delight in MOMA ’s retrospective of the films of Allan Dwan (which runs today through July 8), who was, among other things, one of...
His best-known films are probably his biggest: the Douglas Fairbanks Robin Hood (1922), or Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne (1949), films with large budgets, large casts, large subjects.
Mar 15, 2013 · His Allan Dwan is a revelation, a testament to the fruits of untiring and solid research. Every page reveals the always reliable Dwan as a prolific and versatile filmmaker, whose work touched upon every genre and aspect of the evolving studio system in Hollywood's Golden Age.
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Jun 19, 2011 · Dwan's career peaked in the 1920s with a series of highly successful films for Douglas Fairbanks, including Robin Hood (1922; featuring a castle that was the largest set ever built for the movies) and The Iron Mask (1929), and Manhandled and Wages of Virtue, both in 1924, for Gloria Swanson.
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May 7, 2024 · After his retirement, Dwan lived in obscurity until interest in his career was revived among film critics and historians by two books: British film historian Kevin Brownlow’s study of silent-era Hollywood, The Parade’s Gone By (1968), which devoted a chapter to his reminiscences, and American film critic and director Peter Bogdanovich’s ...
