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Close to My Heart
1951
6.5
William Keighley
Directing
Birth date
August 4, 1889
Birth place
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Death date
June 24, 1984
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Jackson Keighley (August 4, 1889, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - June 24, 1984, New York, New York) was an American stage actor and Hollywood film director. After graduating from the Ludlum School of Dramatic Art, Keighley began acting at the age of 23. By the 1910s and 1920s, he was acting and directing on Broadway. With the advent of talking pictures, he relocated to Hollywood. He eventually signed with Warner Bros., where he proved adept at directing in a wide variety of genres. He was the initial director of The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, but was replaced by Michael Curtiz. During World War II, he supervised the U.S. Army Signal Corp's motion picture unit. He retired in 1953 and moved to Paris with his actress wife Genevieve Tobin. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Keighley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Rocky Mountain
1950
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The Street with No Name
1948
6.3
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Four Mothers
1941
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No Time for Comedy
1940
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The Fighting 69th
1940
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Each Dawn I Die
1939
6.8
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Brother Rat
1938
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
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The Prince and the Pauper
1937
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The Green Pastures
1936
6.3
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The Singing Kid
1936
4.0
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The Right to Live
1935
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Babbitt
1934
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Journal of a Crime
1934
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