Frank Tuttle — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Frank Tuttle, Paramount director, laid the foundation for his picture work while a student at Yale University. He, with Charles Andrew Merz, a classmate, wrote a dramatization of Sir Walter Scott’s Quentin Durward, which was the first play written by undergraduates to be presented by the university dramatic association.
With his graduation, Tuttle turned to literary work and the stage for a livelihood. He became assistant editor of Vanity Fair, and edited the dramatic pages. Following that, in 1917, he became press agent for the Metropolitan Musical Bureau, which handled a number of noted artists. During the war he served on the Committee on Public Information under Ernest Poole, the novelist.
Walter Wanger hired Tuttle as a continuity writer for Paramount in 1919, and he made good from the start. His first picture in the capacity of continuity writer was “The Kentuckians.” When that was finished he worked on the continuity of Thomas Meighan’s picture, The Conquest of Canaan.
Then the Paramount Long Island studio closed and Tuttle organized the Film Guild, an organization of young New Yorkers, which made five pictures in which Glenn Hunter was starred. These were known as Frank Tuttle Productions, and were directed by Tuttle. They were “The Cradle Buster,” “Second Fiddle,” “Youthful Cheaters,” “Puritan Passions” and “Grit.”
When the Film Guild broke up Tuttle directed two of the Yale University “Chronicles of America” short films, and then returned to Paramount to become a director for that company. His first Paramount picture was “Dangerous Money.” Then followed in succession “Miss Bluebeard,” “A Kiss in the Dark,” “The Manicure Girl,” “The Lucky Devil,” Lovers in Quarantine, The American Venus, The Untamed Lady, “Kid Boots,” Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em, “Blind Alleys” and “Time to Love.”
Quite an imposing array of pictures that, and Tuttle feels he has just started on his career. He has been in Hollywood only a comparatively short time, and before he leaves there he expects to do bigger things. He likes Kid Boots better than any picture he has made.
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Frank Tuttle — Director
- Kid Boots
- Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em
- Time to Love
- One Woman to Another
In Production
- The Spotlight
Paramount Pictures
Collection: Motion Picture News, October 1927 (Booking Guide and Studio Directory)
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Directors
- Monta Bell
- Edwin Carewe
- Frank Capra
- Robert F. Hill
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Paul Leni
- Bruce Mitchell
- Fred Niblo
- Harry Pollard
- Herman C. Raymaker
- John S. Robertson
- Albert Rogell
- William A. Seiter
- John M. Stahl
- Frank Tuttle
- Richard Wallace
- Raoul Walsh
- Sam Wood
Writers
- C. Graham Baker
- Al Boasberg
- Alfred A. Cohn
- Winifred Dunn
- Finis Fox
- Howard J. Green
- Josephine Lovett
- Bess Meredyth
- Edward J. Montagne
- Elizabeth Pickett
- George H. Plympton
- Carey Wilson
Actors
- Evelyn Brent
- Betty Bronson
- María Corda
- Rosetta Duncan • Vivian Duncan
- Lya De Putti
- Richard Dix
- Harrison Ford
- Hoot Gibson
- Jean Hersholt
- Harry Langdon
- Harold Lloyd
- Douglas MacLean
- Colleen Moore
- Joseph Franklin Poland
- Lucien Prival
- Sally Rand
- Allene Ray
- Buddy Roosevelt
- Glenn Tryon
- Tom Tyler
- Barbara Worth
Managers