Alan Crosland

Alan Crosland was born in New York in 1894. He first wrote for the New York Globe, acted in the theatre alongside Annie Russell, then entered cinema in 1912 at Edison, where he held various posts. A feature film director from 1917, he made about sixty. He had already signed for Warner Bros., in 1926, the first feature film in the Vitaphone process, with synchronised music and sound effects, without dialogue, with John Barrymore. He made about twenty more films and died in Hollywood in 1936, at the age of forty-one, as a result of a car accident.

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• CinemaThe Jazz SingerAlan Crosland · 1927Cinema