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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).
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.
- (79)
- Drama, Romance
- Allan Dwan
- 1935-09-17
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.
Sep 1, 1996 · Dwan mentions Joan Crawford, saying she and Fairbanks Jr., her husband, couldn’t work together on a set because he was such a ladies’ man. Fairbanks Sr. was just the opposite, “devoted to Mary [Pickford].”
May 7, 2024 · Shirley Temple (left) and Gloria Stuart in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), directed by Allan Dwan. (more) Dwan made his first talking picture, The Far Call , in 1929.
- Michael Barson
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.
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He directed 2 for Shirley Temple, Heidi (1937) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), and his Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) earned its star, John Wayne, an Oscar nomination. Allan Dwan continued directing well into the 1950s, and shot his last film, Most Dangerous Man Alive, at 76 years old.
