Vintage Movie Resources

Jack Ford (Assistant Director)

Harry F. Millarde, Emmett J. Flynn, Henry Otto, Lynn Reynolds, John G. Blystone, Tom Buckingham, Denison Clift, John Ford, J. Gordon Edwards, Chester Bennett, Jack Conway, Elmer Clifton, Lambert Hillyer and Maurice Elvey have screen successes to their credit.

Vintage Advertisement — Movie Director John Ford

The first of a series of brilliant articles about the men whose genius lifts pictures and personalities to fame — the directors.

A galloping horse hurled John Ford out of the acting end of the motion picture business and landed him in a director’s chair, where he came up from directing lowly westerns to winning International fame for his marvelous directorial talents and the Academy Award with “The Informer.”

Hollywood is accustomed to storms. They bob up at the slightest provocation, or with none at all, and range from tempests in teapots to knock-em-down and drag-em-out affairs involving fisticuffs and front-page publicity.