Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William H. Young '42 has been appointed Head Cheerleader to succeed D. Donald Peddie '41, Bill Bingham, director of Athletics announced yesterday. His assistants will be Charles A. Griffith, Jr. '42 and john d. Rigby '42. One more junior will be picked, and three Sophomores will be elected from a competition to be run off in the spring...
Virginia (Paramount). Produced by Virginia-born Director Edward H. Griffith,* from a story he wrote with Virginia Van Upp, Virginia was filmed on the spot, in torrid, somnolent Albemarle County, where Thomas Jefferson lived and died. In spite of the labored accents of its non-Confederate cast (only Southern actor featured in Virginia is Tom Rutherford, a Richmond blue blood) its lines have an authentic ring, might have been copied down verbatim from the resentful speeches of Albemarle's land-loving inhabitants...
...Carroll and Virginia's red-clay country. For cinemaddicts who adore child actresses, Virginia makes the most of four-year-old Carolyn Lee. After Honeymoon in Bali (also with Carroll & MacMurray) Carolyn's steel executive father took her home to Martins Ferry, Ohio, was persuaded by Director Griffith to give her another whirl in pictures. But the real news in Virginia's cast is 24-year-old Stirling Hayden, who had never acted in anything before-not even a Sunday School pageant-when Director Griffith gave him his fat part in Virginia...
...When Hayden lost Aldebaran in Charleston, his friend Larry O'Toole, a Boston artist and member of the crew, remembered the newsman, looked him up, through him got in touch with a Hollywood agent. The agent took some photographs of Hayden to Paramount and showed them to Edward Griffith, who was at that moment looking for a man to play the second male lead in Virginia. Director Griffith liked Hayden's looks, gave him a test, signed...
...Birth of a Nation's David Wark Griffith...