Cause of death kidney failure Children Richard Lang Role Film director | Name Walter Lang Occupation Film director | |
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Spouse Madalynne Field (m. 1937–1972) Movies The King and I, There's No Business Like Sho, The Little Princess, Desk Set, The Blue Bird Similar People Dan Dailey, Yul Brynner, Clifton Webb, Deborah Kerr, Anna Leonowens | ||
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Walter Lang (August 10, 1896 – February 7, 1972) was an American film director.
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- Ninera moderna 2 spnl maureen o hara robert young y clifton webb walter lang
- The Little Princess 1939 Walter Lang
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- References
The Little Princess [1939] Walter Lang
Early life
Walter Lang was born in Tennessee. As a young man he went to New York City where he found clerical work at a film production company. The business piqued his artistic instincts and he began learning the various facets of filmmaking and eventually worked as an assistant director. However, Lang also had ambitions to be a painter and left the United States for a time to join the great gathering of artists and writers in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France. Things did not work out as Lang hoped and he eventually returned home and to the film business.
Career
In 1925, Walter Lang directed his first silent film, The Red Kimono. In the mid-1930s, he was hired by 20th Century Fox where, as a director, he "painted" a number of the spectacular colorful musicals for which Fox Studios became famous for producing during the 1940s. One of Lang's most recognized films is his 1956 epic The King and I for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Directing.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Walter Lang has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6520 Hollywood Blvd.
Personal life
Lang was married to Madalynne Field (1907–1974) from 1937 until his death. Field, a former actress, had met and befriended Carole Lombard when they were employed as Sennett Bathing Beauties in the late 1920s. Field's film career ended with the demise of Sennett's studio. However, she maintained her friendship with Lombard, and acted as Lombard's secretary until her marriage. She met Lang when he directed Lombard in Love Before Breakfast (1936). Lang was buried in the Inglewood Park Cemetery, in Inglewood, California.