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Kenneth Macgowan (November 30, 1888 – April 27, 1963) was an American film producer. He won an Academy Award for Best Color Short Film for La Cucaracha (1934), the first live-action short film made in the three-color Technicolor process.
Kenneth Macgowan was a theatrical producer who headed the Provincetown Playhouse in the 1920s with Eugene O'Neill, his close friend and Robert Edmond Jones. He produced plays on Broadway, giving Katherine Hepburn her first role.
- Producer, Writer, Additional Crew
- November 30, 1888
- Kenneth Macgowan
- April 27, 1963
Kenneth Macgowan was a theatrical producer who headed the Provincetown Playhouse in the 1920s with Eugene O'Neill, his close friend and Robert Edmond Jones. He produced plays on Broadway, giving Katherine Hepburn her first role.
- November 30, 1888
- April 27, 1963
Aug 12, 2014 · The author, Kenneth MacGowan, was a respected producer behind such films as Lifeboat, Man Hunt and Lloyd’s of London. It may come as a surprise, then, when I tell you that I wanted to hurl both this book and Mr. MacGowan across the room.
Jan 1, 2015 · In 1935, Kenneth Macgowan made history when he joined RKO Pictures and the production of Becky Sharp, the first feature-length film to use Technicolor. The three-strip invention by the color motion company turned the screen — as the original trailer of the movie so proudly presents — into “the palette for life’s great canvas.”
Kenneth MacGowan was a creative motion picture producer, film scholar, and teacher. The 50 films for which he was responsible include two milestones in the use of three-color Technicolor, and his ten years at 20th Century-Fox resulted in his being regarded as an expert in historical biographies.
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May 4, 2018 · May 4, 2018. This week, three reviews document the history and legacy of Broadway. In 1922, Robert Edmond Jones, a leader in American stage design, reviewed “The Theatre of Tomorrow” by Kenneth...
