Irving Cummings

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Irving Cummings

Born	Irving Camisky (1888-10-09)October 9, 1888 New York City, New York
Died	April 18, 1959(1959-04-18) (aged 70) Los Angeles, California
Cause of death	Heart ailment
Resting place	Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Nationality	United States
Occupation	Film director, actor
Years active	1903-1959
Spouse(s)	Ruth Sinclair (m.1917-1959; his death)

Irving Camisky (October 9, 1888 - April 18, 1959) was an American movie actor, director, producer and writer.

Life and career

Cummings was born in New York City. He is the father of the screenwriter and producer Irving Cummings, Jr.

Cummings started his acting career in his late teens on Broadway stage, and appeared with the legendary Lillian Russell. He entered into movies in 1909 and quickly became a popular leading man. Few of the films he made as an actor are easily available, except for Buster Keaton's first feature film, The Saphead (1920), in which Cummings plays a crooked stockbroker and Fred Niblo's film Sex (1920), one of the first films to depict a new phenomenon in 1920s America, the Flapper. Both films are readily available on home video, as well as The Round-Up (1920), a Western drama starring Roscoe Arbuckle (with the famous tagline "Nobody loves a fat man") and featuring Wallace Beery. Around that time, he started to direct action movies and occasional comedies.

In 1934, Cummings directed Grand Canary, and in 1929, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his direction of In Old Arizona.

Cummings was known for the big splashy 1930s Technicolor musicals with popular leading ladies such as Betty Grable, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, and Shirley Temple (Little Miss Broadway, 1938) he directed at 20th Century Fox.

In 1943, as part of the 50th anniversary of the birth of the motion picture industry, Cummings was awarded the Thomas A. Edison Foundation Gold Medal for outstanding achievement in the arts and sciences.

Select filmography

Don Ameche, Alice Faye, and Carmen Miranda in That Night in Rio - 1941.

Actor

The World's Great Snare (1916)
Secret Service (1919)
The Tree of Knowledge (1920)
Sex (1920)
The Round-Up (1920)

Director

Flesh and Blood (1922)
As Man Desires (1925)
The Johnstown Flood (1926)
Dressed to Kill (1928)
The Port of Missing Girls (1928)
Romance of the Underworld (1928)
Behind That Curtain (1929)
In Old Arizona (1929)
Curly Top (1935)
Girls' Dormitory (1936)
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
That Night in Rio (1941)
My Gal Sal (1942)

External links

Irving Cummings at the Internet Movie Database
Irving Cummings at the Internet Broadway Database

Films directed by Irving Cummings

Flesh and Blood (1922)
The Johnstown Flood (1926)
The Port of Missing Girls (1928)
Romance of the Underworld (1928)
In Old Arizona (1929)
Behind that Curtain (1929)
A Holy Terror (1931)
Attorney for the Defense (1932)
Grand Canary (1934)
The White Parade (1934)
Curly Top (1935)
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Girls' Dormitory (1936)
Vogues of 1938 (1937)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
Just Around the Corner (1938)
Everything Happens at Night (1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Lillian Russell (1940)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
That Night in Rio (1941)
Belle Starr (1941)
Louisiana Purchase (1941)
My Gal Sal (1942)
Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
The Impatient Years (1944)
The Dolly Sisters (1945)
Double Dynamite (1951)

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Persondata
Name	Cummings, Irving
Alternative names
Short description	Actor, Film director
Date of birth	9 October 1888
Place of birth	New York, New York, USA
Date of death	18 April 1959
Place of death	Los Angeles, California, USA

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