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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...
...famed Valentino bullfighting picture Blood and Sand. For Director James Cruze she cut The Covered Wagon, worked on other material for him while he helped promote her into a directorship of her own. She directed Ruth Chatterton in Sarah and Son, which gave Miss Arzner her reputation for handling emotional drama. Arzner successes since have always been with this sort of material, featuring women players like Katharine Hepburn (Christopher Strong), Anna Sten (Nona...
...screen seemed last week as misdirected as the celebration over its opening was unjustified. Hampered by a script that characterized its hero variously as paragon and scoundrel, pinchpenny and profligate, altruist and profiteer, without ever making him a human being, the best Producer Edmund Grainger, Director James Cruze and Actors Arnold, Lee Tracy and Binnie Barnes could offer the public was 85 minutes of dignified boredom, which suggested that the producers of Sutter's Gold had wearied of the performance before it began...