Years active 1928-1945 Name Nick Grinde | ||
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Died June 19, 1979, Los Angeles, California, United States Education University of Wisconsin-Madison Movies The Man They Could Not Hang, Hitler – Dead or Alive, Before I Hang, The Man with Nine Lives, Babes in Toyland Similar People Roger Pryor, Gus Meins, Charley Rogers, Zelda Sears, Dorothy Tree | ||
BABES IN TOYLAND Soundtrack CD 27/100 - O.S.T 1934 Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy
Nick Grindé (January 12, 1893 – June 19, 1979) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945.
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- BABES IN TOYLAND Soundtrack CD 27100 OST 1934 Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy
- Selected filmography
- References
Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Grinde graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He later moved to New York and worked in Vaudeville. Grinde became a Hollywood film writer and director in the late 1920s, and was often assigned to familiarize Broadway stage directors with the techniques of film making. As a director, he is considered one of American cinema's early B film specialists. Notable films include The Man they Could Not Hang with Boris Karloff and Ronald Reagan's first motion picture: Love Is on the Air (1937). As a screenwriter, he is credited as a co-writer of Laurel and Hardy's Babes in Toyland (1934).
Throughout his career, Grinde was a popular writer of short stories, articles and columns usually about show business and film making in early Hollywood. Prime examples include "Pictures for Peanuts" (Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 29, 1945), a humorous B picture "how-to," and "Where's Vaudeville At?" (Saturday Evening Post, Jan. 11, 1930).
Grinde died in Los Angeles, California in 1979 at the age of 86. In the mid-1930s, he had been married to actress Marie Wilson. Later, he married Korean-American actress Hazel Shon.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences houses the Nick Grinde Papers in its Special Collections.