Archie Mayo

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Archie Mayo

Born January 29, 1891 · New York City, New York, USA

Died December 4, 1968 · aged 77

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Archie Mayo (29 January 1891, New York City – 4 December 1968, Guadalajara, Mexico) was a movie director and stage actor who moved to Hollywood in 1915 and began working as a director in 1917. His films include Is Everybody Happy? (1929) with Ted Lewis, Night After Night (1932) with Mae West, The Doorway to Hell (1930) with James Cagney and Lew Ayres, Con…

Known For

The Sacred FlameThe Sacred Flame · 1929
The Sacred Flame
★ 3.31929
MovieDramaRomance
Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.
Black LegionBlack Legion · 1937
Black Legion
★ 6.61937
MovieCrimeDrama
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
A Night in CasablancaA Night in Casablanca · 1946
A Night in Casablanca
★ 6.81946
MovieComedy
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Call It a DayCall It a Day · 1937
Call It a Day
★ 7.01937
MovieComedy
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
Slightly UsedSlightly Used · 1927
Slightly Used
★ 8.01927
MovieComedy
Cynthia Martin’s father insists she marry before her two younger sisters Helen and Grace. So, she invents a husband for herself called Major Smith. Trouble begins when the fictitious husband Major John Smith materializes, bringing with him chaos and confusion.
The Petrified ForestThe Petrified Forest · 1936
The Petrified Forest
★ 7.11936
MovieCrimeDrama
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
The Adventures of Marco PoloThe Adventures of Marco Polo · 1938
The Adventures of Marco Polo
★ 6.21938
MovieRomanceAdventure
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
The ExpertThe Expert · 1932
The Expert
★ 7.21932
MovieComedyDrama
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.

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