1. Arthur Lubin's family moved to Jerome, Arizona, when Arthur was five.
52 Facts About Arthur Lubin
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Arthur Lubin was interested in acting at an early age, appearing in local Sunday school productions, with the encouragement of his mother, who died when Lubin was six.
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Arthur Lubin's father remarried and the family moved from Jerome to San Diego when Lubin was eight.
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Arthur Lubin managed the music and drama clubs at high school and said a key influence was playing the title role in The Vicar of Wakefield.
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Arthur Lubin joined the San Diego Stock Company at $12 a week; the director was John Griffith Wray and the actors including Harold Lloyd.
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Arthur Lubin briefly served in the navy in World War One and attended Page Military Academy and Carnegie Tech, where he studied drama and made money by shifting scenery and props.
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Arthur Lubin worked as a drama coach at Canadian Steel Mills before following one of his college drama teachers, B Iden Payne, to New York.
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In New York, Arthur Lubin managed to get work on stage in such plays as The Red Poppy, Anything Might Happen and My Aunt from Ypsilanti.
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Arthur Lubin acted in stage, notably at the Potboiler Act Theatre.
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Arthur Lubin later worked on Broadway, including Jealousy, where he replaced John Halliday opposite Fay Bainter.
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Arthur Lubin returned to New York gaining a job casting and directing with the firm of Crosby Graige and Selwyn.
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Arthur Lubin went out to California and briefly returned to acting in Pasadena, then decided to stick with directing.
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Arthur Lubin tried out two plays at the Pasadena Playhouse which he later produced and directed in New York with the financial help of Lee Schubert.
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Arthur Lubin produced When the Bough Breaks with Pauline Frederick, One Man with Paul Muni and another play with Lenore Ulric.
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Arthur Lubin worked for nine months for the Ray-Minor Company, a subsidiary of Paramount.
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In June 1932, Arthur Lubin returned to Hollywood to work for William Le Baron at Paramount as an associate producer.
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Arthur Lubin's contract included the right to return to New York in the first six months to produce and direct a play.
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Arthur Lubin began directing Little Theatre in his spare time, including productions of Lilliom, and got reputation for doing "outstanding work".
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Arthur Lubin was fired from Paramount as part of an economy drive.
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Arthur Lubin received acclaim for directing a theatre production of The Green Bay Tree.
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Carr went to MGM and Arthur Lubin moved over to Republic Pictures when they merged with Monogram.
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Arthur Lubin made an experimental film, Journey by Train, Arthur Lubin later made Frisco Waterfront and The House of a Thousand Candles.
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Arthur Lubin started with Republic last year, has so far turned out three good pictures.
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Arthur Lubin's career received a big break when he was assigned to direct the first Abbott and Costello star vehicle, Buck Privates.
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Arthur Lubin directed the double act's next four movies, In the Navy, which earned him another $5,000 bonus, Hold That Ghost, shot before In the Navy but released afterwards, Keep 'Em Flying and Ride 'Em Cowboy, shot before Keep 'Em Flying but released afterwards.
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Arthur Lubin said the cameras were on a dolly because the team could not be trusted to stay in position.
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However Arthur Lubin says after the fifth film he asked if he could work on other movies:.
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In January 1942, Arthur Lubin was assigned to an expensive war film, Eagle Squadron, which was a massive hit.
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Arthur Lubin was now established as one of Universal's leading directors.
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Arthur Lubin strives to keep them relaxed for the cameras.
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Arthur Lubin made White Savage with Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Sabu, then was given his largest ever budget when he replaced Henry Koster on Phantom of the Opera with Claude Rains.
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Arthur Lubin tried to get into the Signal Corps but they said he was more valuable making documentaries.
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Arthur Lubin made two more for United Artists, New Orleans and Impact.
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Arthur Lubin continued to direct theatre on the side, doing This Young World at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1948.
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Arthur Lubin bought the rights to a series of books about Francis the Talking Mule and set up the project as a film at Universal.
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Arthur Lubin made Queen for a Day for United Artists, and Rhubarb for Paramount.
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Arthur Lubin was worried about being typed as an animal director.
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Arthur Lubin made Francis Goes to West Point, It Grows on Trees, which was Irene Dunne's last film, South Sea Woman with Burt Lancaster at Warner Bros, and Francis Covers the Big Town.
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Arthur Lubin complained during filming the latter that he was becoming typecast as an animal director.
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Arthur Lubin then was let go by Universal; the directed later blamed this on the failure of Lady Godiva.
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Eastwood was given another support role in two films Arthur Lubin made for his own company released through RKO, The First Traveling Saleslady and Escapade in Japan.
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Arthur Lubin directed episodic TV shows like Bronco, New Comedy Showcase, Maverick, Bonanza, and The Addams Family.
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Arthur Lubin had wanted to make a TV series based on Francis but was not able to secure the rights.
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The pilot was financed by comedian George Burns, but Arthur Lubin was unable to sell it to a network.
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Arthur Lubin decided to sell the show into syndication first, got a sponsor and managed to finance 26 episodes until the show was picked up by CBS.
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Arthur Lubin was a very lovable character, but he was a character.
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Arthur Lubin wanted to rush through and get things done quickly, and he didn't want to stay around the studio too long.
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Arthur Lubin didn't realize what he said, he didn't care.
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Arthur Lubin made us better than we actually were, which is what a good director does.
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Arthur Lubin was gay and for many years lived with Frank Burford.
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Arthur Lubin died at the Autumn Hills nursing home in Glendale, California, on May 11,1995, at age 96.
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Arthur Lubin said he directed 69 films of which "eight have been miserable flops".