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Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan was the younger son of commercial traveler of woolen clothing Joseph Michael Dwan (1857–1917) and his wife Mary Jane Dwan (née Hunt). The family moved to the United States when he was seven years old on December 4, 1892, by ferry from Windsor to Detroit, according to his naturalization petition of August 1939.
Dwan certainly didn’t hesitate to exploit Paget’s voluptuous figure, and on one level the film is a sophisticated version of a cave-man battle between two rivals for a desirable woman. It’s the interplay between Milland and Quinn that generates much of the film’s gripping, prickly energy.
Navy Wife: Directed by Allan Dwan. With Claire Trevor, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Darwell, Warren Hymer. Hawaiian naval nurse Trevor weds widowed officer Bellamy partly because he has a crippled daughter.
- (80)
- Drama, Romance
- Allan Dwan
- 1935-09-17
For a movie with the log-line 'A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter,' this has a very packed, twisty, frankly bizarre 75-minutes.
- Allan Dwan
- Fox Film Corporation
Allan Dwan was born on 3 April 1885 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a director and writer, known for Bound in Morocco (1918), A Perfect Crime (1921) and Panthea (1917). He was married to Marie Shelton and Pauline Bush. He died on 28 December 1981 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- April 3, 1885
- December 28, 1981
A Kathleen Norris novel was the source for this romantic drama, which begins when widowed navy doctor Quentin Harden (Ralph Bellamy) falls in love with nurse Vicki Blake (Claire Trevor). Despite her awareness that most naval marriages end in divorce, Vicki says "yes" when Harden proposes.
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The most compositionally sophisticated of the shorts is The Thief’s Wife (1912). Following the opening shot of the “thief,” there is a long shot view through the doorway of his house, where his wife is framed looking to the background, graced by the figure of a lone tree.
