Directors

Every year Film Daily asks cinema critics to pick the ten directors they liked best. Last week the last ballot was counted. Elections: 1) Alfred E. Green of Warner (Disraeli, The Green Goddess, The Man from Blankley's); 2) King Vidor of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Hallelujah, Not So Dumb); 3) Clarence Brown of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Anna Christie, Wonder of Women) ; 4) Lionel Barrymore of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Madame X, His Glorious Night). Others: Ernst Lubitsch, Roy Del Ruth, Herbert Brenon, James Whale, Frank Lloyd, Sidney Franklin. Good directors not placed: Raoul Walsh, Dorothy Arzner, Edmund Goulding, Frank...

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