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Frank Tuttle
Frank Tuttle
	On the far right shaking hands with Esther Ralston in 1925
Born	Frank Wright Tuttle; August 6, 1892; New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	January 6, 1963 (aged 70); Hollywood, California, U.S.
Education	Yale University
Occupation(s)	Hollywood film director and screenwriter
Employer	Paramount Pictures
Known for	This Gun for Hire (1942); I Stole a Million (1939); College Holiday (1936); The Glass Key (1935); Roman Scandals (1933); This Is the Night (1932); Paramount on Parade (1930); The Untamed Lady (1926) ; Kid Boots (1926)
Children	3

Frank Wright Tuttle (August 6, 1892 – January 6, 1963) was a Hollywood film director and writer who directed films from 1922 (The Cradle Buster) to 1959 (Island of Lost Women).

Biography

“Frank Tuttle was a director of some skill who showed occasional flashes of talent, but for the greater part of his career he buried himself in irredeemable studio assignments...a long string of routine films, mainly for Paramount Pictures, leaves the impression that Tuttle was a hack with no personal style and no particular skill at grabbing the more interesting assignments...Tuttle, in fact, never lost his youthful zeal and even after years of racing through projects like Waikiki Wedding (1937) and College Holiday (1936) still maintained hopes of creating something not merely artistic but ‘meaningful,’ rather like the fictional director in Preston Sturges’ Sullivan’s Travels (1941) ... But Tuttle had neither the talent nor the clout to achieve his aims [and] he soon returned to the practically anonymous production of studio potboilers.”—Film historian Richard Koszarski in Hollywood Directors: 1914-1940 (1976)^[1]

Frank Tuttle was educated at Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record.^[2]

After graduation, he worked in New York City in the advertising department of the Metropolitan Music Bureau.^[2] He later moved to Hollywood, where he became a film director for Paramount. His films are largely in the comedy and film noir genres.^{[citation needed]}

In 1947, his career ground to a temporary halt with the onset of the first of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on Communist infiltration of the movie industry. Tuttle had joined the American Communist Party in 1937 in reaction to Hitler's rise to power. Unable to find work in the United States, he moved to France, where he made Gunman in the Streets (1950) starring Simone Signoret and Dane Clark. In 1951, after a decade as a member of the Communist Party, Tuttle gave 36 names to the HUAC.^[3]^[4]

Death

Tuttle died in Hollywood, California, on January 6, 1963, aged 70. He was survived by his three daughters.^[5]

Selected filmography

The Cradle Buster (1922)
Puritan Passions (1923) starring Mary Astor
Second Fiddle (1923) starring Mary Astor
Youthful Cheaters (1923)
Grit (1924)
Dangerous Money (1924)
The Manicure Girl (1925)
The Lucky Devil (1925)
Lovers in Quarantine (1925) starring Bebe Daniels and the other Harrison Ford
Kid Boots (1926) starring Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926) starring Evelyn Brent and Louise Brooks
The American Venus (1926) with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
The Untamed Lady (1926) starring Gloria Swanson
Blind Alleys (1927) starring Evelyn Brent and Thomas Meighan
Time to Love (1927)
One Woman to Another (1927)
Something Always Happens (1928)
Varsity (1928) starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Mary Brian
The Canary Murder Case (additional sound footage; 1929) starring William Powell as Philo Vance
The Green Murder Case starring William Powell as Philo Vance
Sweetie (1929) starring Nancy Carroll
Paramount on Parade (1930), Paramount's all-star revue with a screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Benson Murder Case (1930) starring William Powell as Philo Vance
True to the Navy (1930) starring Clara Bow and Fredric March
It Pays to Advertise (1931) starring Carole Lombard
No Limit (1931) starring Clara Bow and Thelma Todd
This Reckless Age starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers
The Big Broadcast (1932) starring Bing Crosby
This Is the Night (1932) with Cary Grant
Roman Scandals (1933) starring Eddie Cantor
Springtime for Henry (1934) starring Otto Kruger and Nigel Bruce
Here is My Heart (1934) starring Bing Crosby
Ladies Should Listen (1934) starring Cary Grant
Two for Tonight (1935) starring Bing Crosby
The Glass Key (1935), film adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel of the same name
All the King's Horses (1935) starring Carl Brisson
College Holiday (1936) starring Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen
Waikiki Wedding (1937) starring Bing Crosby
Doctor Rhythm (1938) starring Bing Crosby
Paris Honeymoon (1939) starring Bing Crosby
I Stole a Million (1939) starring George Raft and written by Nathanael West
Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939) starring Edgar Bergen
Lucky Jordan (1942) starring Sheldon Leonard and Alan Ladd
This Gun for Hire (1942) starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd
Star Spangled Rhythm (contributing director; 1943) with sketches by George S. Kaufman
The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) starring Veronica Lake and based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham
Don Juan Quilligan (1945) starring Phil Silvers
The Great John L. (1945) starring Linda Darnell
Suspense (1946) starring Barry Sullivan and Belita
Swell Guy (1946) starring Sonny Tufts
Gunman in the Streets (1950) starring Simone Signoret
The Magic Face (1951) starring Luther Adler
Hell on Frisco Bay (1956) starring Alan Ladd and Edward G. Robinson
A Cry in the Night (1956) starring Edmond O'Brien, Natalie Wood and Raymond Burr
Island of Lost Women (1959) starring Jeff Richards and produced by Alan Ladd

References

^ Koszarski, 1976 Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 76-9262. p. 350
^ ^a ^b "Frank Wright Tuttle". The twelfth general catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. New York: Psi Upsilon. May 1917. p. 203.
^ Tuttle, as 'Informer,' Names 36 in Movies NYHT News Service. The Washington Post (1923-1954) [Washington, DC], May 25, 1951: p. 12.
^ "The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 25, 1951 · page 8". Newspapers.com. 25 May 1951. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
^ Frank Tuttle at IMDb