Word: cruze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This double career began in 1919 when the late Director James Cruze, stung by criticisms that movie parsons never looked like anything but bad actors, asked Father Dodd's help. Father Dodd had been visiting his wife's family in Los Angeles, and was holding services in a rented store...
...Films. Cruze engaged Dodd to play ministerial roles, give technical advice on ecclesiastical usage. Since then the priest has appeared in or been technical adviser to more than 200 films. He performed his first movie wedding ceremony in Making the Grade. His last movie wedding was a year ago in They All Kissed the Bride. Once he was only a voice: in Cabin in the Cotton, Bette Davis tuned in on the radio, heard Dodd preach a sermon. Dodd's favorite picture was It Happened One Night, in which he appeared but did not utter a word...
Died. James Cruze, 58, longtime cinedirector (Old Ironsides, The Covered Wagon, Merton of the Movies) of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Born James Cruze Bosen, one of 23 children of Mormon parents, in Ogden, Utah, he was an actor in cinema's early days, became one of the highest-paid and fastest-working directors of the silents. At one time Paramount paid him $1,000 a day every day in the year whether he worked or not. The second of his three wives was Actress Betty Compson...