Irving Cummings(1888-1959)
- Actor
- Director
- Producer
New York-born Irving Cummings began his career as an actor on the
Broadway stage in his late teens, and appeared with the legendary
Lillian Russell's company. He entered films in 1909 as an actor, and became a
very popular leading man in the early 1920s. He began directing at
around that time, turning out mostly action films and an occasional
comedy, but he really came into his own in the 1930s at 20th
Century-Fox. Cummings specialized in the big, splashy Technicolor
musicals for which Fox became known, and was responsible for many of
Betty Grable's, Alice Faye's and Shirley Temple's most enjoyable films.
