Joseph Santley

Directing·Jan 10, 1890·Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Mansfield Santley (born Joseph Ishmael Mansfield, January 10, 1890 – August 8, 1971) was an American actor, singer, dancer, writer, director, and producer of musical theatrical plays motion pictures and television shows. He adopted the stage name of his stepfather, actor Eugene Santley. Joseph Santley was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. As a boy, he and older brother Fred began performing in live theatre appearing in summer stock and touring with their parents. In 1906, at age seventeen, Joseph Santley co-wrote and starred on Broadway in the play, Billy the Kid. In 1907, he acted in film for the first time for Sidney Olcott at the Kalem Company in a silent Western film short called Pony Express. In 1928, Santley directed his first motion picture, a short talkie for Paramount Pictures that featured singer Ruth Etting. The next year, Paramount had Santley direct three more films that were short singing productions, one with Etting, another with crooner Rudy Vallee, plus a third titled High Hat with Broadway singing star Alice Boulden. Also, he directed A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic, a musical film featuring Eddie Cantor along with Eddie Elkins and his orchestra. In 1929, Joseph Santley co-directed, with Robert Florey, the first Marx Brothers feature film The Cocoanuts, a musical comedy for which he is most famous. Based on the George S. Kaufman play, and with music by Irving Berlin, the film was billed as "Paramount's All Talking-Singing Musical Comedy Hit." His other notable directorial efforts include 1935's Harmony Lane, a biographical musical on the life of composer Stephen Foster. In 1940, he directed Melody Ranch starring "singing cowboy" Gene Autry. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. During World War II, Joseph Santley worked for the war effort and in 1942 made the film Remember Pearl Harbor. In 1950, he made his last feature film but came back at age sixty-five to produce the 1954-55 television comedy The Mickey Rooney Show. In 1956, he put together two segments of Jazz Ball, a made-for-TV musical revue created from various filmed performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s. Joseph Santley died in 1971 in Los Angeles.

Film	Credit
The Hour of St. Francis1962 · Director	Director
When You're Smiling1950 · Director	Director
Make Believe Ballroom1949 · Director	Director
Shadow of a Woman1946 · Director	Director
Hitchhike to Happiness1945 · Director	Director
Earl Carroll Vanities1945 · Director	Director
Brazil1944 · Director	Director
Three Little Sisters1944 · Director	Director
Goodnight, Sweetheart1944 · Director	Director
Jamboree1944 · Director	Director
Rosie the Riveter1944 · Director	Director
Here Comes Elmer1943 · Director	Director
Sleepy Lagoon1943 · Director	Director
Thumbs Up1943 · Director	Director
Chatterbox1943 · Director	Director
Shantytown1943 · Director	Director
Call of the Canyon1942 · Director	Director
JJoan of Ozark1942 · Director	Director
Yokel Boy1942 · Director	Director
A Tragedy at Midnight1942 · Director	Director
Remember Pearl Harbor1942 · Director	Director
Down Mexico Way1941 · Director	Director
Ice-Capades1941 · Director	Director
Puddin' Head1941 · Director	Director
Rookies on Parade1941 · Director	Director
Sis Hopkins1941 · Director	Director
Behind the News1940 · Director	Director
Dancing on a Dime1940 · Director	Director
Melody and Moonlight1940 · Director	Director
Melody Ranch1940 · Director	Director
Music in My Heart1940 · Director	Director
Two Bright Boys1939 · Director	Director
The Family Next Door1939 · Director	Director
The Spirit of Culver1939 · Director	Director
Swing, Sister, Swing1938 · Director	Director
Always in Trouble1938 · Director	Director
Blond Cheat1938 · Director	Director
She's Got Everything1937 · Director	Director
There Goes the Groom1937 · Director	Director
Meet the Missus1937 · Director	Director
Smartest Girl in Town1936 · Director	Director
Walking on Air1936 · Director	Director
WWe Went to College1936 · Director	Director
TThe Harvester1936 · Director	Director
Laughing Irish Eyes1936 · Director	Director
Dancing Feet1936 · Director	Director
Her Master's Voice1936 · Director	Director
BBeautiful Dreamer1935 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer