Allen Holubar — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Seven years ago Allen Holubar was well known as a leading man of the legitimate stage. Today he is one of the screen’s foremost producers. He was born August 3, 1890, in San Francisco, and was educated in the public schools of San Francisco.
His stage experience consisted of leading roles in the New York productions of David Belasco and Henry W. Savage. It was when he was playing the leading masculine part in Henry W. Savage’s production, Everywoman, that he met Dorothy Phillips, then a stage star, but now a film screen luminary. For the past few years she has been his wife. They live in a handsome Hollywood home and are pointed out as one of the leading examples of marital domestic felicity in the entire cinema colony.
From the legitimate he went to the silent drama, where he appeared in Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” Since that time he has spent every minute of his life in training for the production of super-films. Picture fans will remember him as the author-director of such master films as “The Heart of Humanity,” “The Right to Happiness,” “Once to Everywoman” and “Man-Woman-Marriage,” a teeming, vital drama showing a struggle between the sexes from the earliest caveman era to the present day.
Mr. Holubar’s knowledge of drama, history and human nature, and his ability as an executive and an artist are the foundation stones upon which he has built his directorship.
Like that of his wife, Mr. Holubar’s first screen experience was with Universal, but more recently, starting with his production of Man-Woman-Marriage, he has been an independent producer, distributing his productions through Associated First National. Man-Woman-Marriage was followed by “Hurricane’s Gal,” a dashing maritime melodrama starring Dorothy Phillips. He recently completed “Slander the Woman,” from the novel of Northeastern Canada by Jeffrey Deprend.
These two pictures complete his present contract with Associated First National, and his plans for the future are as yet unannounced.
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Allen Holubar took his company to Truckee for snow scenes. Dorothy Phillips is the star.
It was necessary for Mr. Holubar to have this huge ice rink built in the studio to match the scenes taken in the snow country.
Portrait by Witzel • Los Angeles
Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)