Edward Francis Finney was an American film producer and director.
13 Facts About Edward Finney
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Edward Finney is best known as the man who introduced cowboy singer Tex Ritter to the moviegoing public.
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Edward Finney established Boots and Saddles Pictures and made a successful series of singing cowboy westerns starring his discovery Tex Ritter.
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When Grand National ceased operations in 1939, Edward Finney moved his business to Monogram.
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Occasionally Edward Finney would be hired to make low-budget features for Producers Releasing Corporation ; some of these were good enough to be distributed by the more prosperous Monogram studio.
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In 1946 Finney joined forces with California exhibitor turned producer Robert L Lippert to form Screen Guild Productions.
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Edward Finney often incorporated elaborately staged file footage from other films into his own films, making the new productions appear more costly than they actually were.
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Edward Finney found a new outlet for his large library of old films in the 1950s: the lucrative home-movie field.
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Edward Finney reprinted dozens of features and shorts, and offered them to collectors in the 16mm and 8mm formats.
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In 1959 Edward Finney read newspaper accounts of singing star Gloria Jean now working as a hostess in a restaurant favored by movie people.
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Edward Finney wrote, produced, and edited the new film, the lightweight comedy Laffing Time, co-starring Finney himself and veteran comic El Brendel.
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Edward Finney later added old action footage to it and retitled it The Madcaps.
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Edward Finney serviced the home-movie community into the late 1970s.