Robert Florey was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and actor.
34 Facts About Robert Florey
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Robert Florey's reputation is balanced between his avant-garde expressionist style, most evident in his early career, and his work as a fast, reliable studio-system director called on to finish troubled projects, such as 1939's Hotel Imperial.
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Robert Florey directed more than 50 films, the best known likely being the Marx Brothers first feature, The Cocoanuts.
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In 2006, as his 1937 film Daughter of Shanghai was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, Robert Florey was called "widely acclaimed as the best director working in major studio B-films".
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Robert Florey grew up in Paris near the studio of George Melies, and as a young man served as assistant to Louis Feuillade.
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Robert Florey was an assistant director on L'orpheline, and Parisette.
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Robert Florey went to Hollywood in 1921 as a journalist for Cinemagazine.
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Robert Florey worked as foreign publicity director for Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford and was European advance manager for Rudolph Valentino.
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Robert Florey was an assistant director on Parisian Nights.
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Robert Florey went to MGM where he was an assistant on The Masked Bride, Exquisite Sinner, Bardelys the Magnificent, La Boheme and The Magic Flame.
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Robert Florey did The Romantic Age for Columbia and Face Value for Stirling Pictures.
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Robert Florey directed and co-wrote the 27-minute experimental film Johann the Coffinmaker in 1927, said to have been made for $200 in his spare time, shooting at night while working on other films in the daytime.
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Robert Florey directed a short with Fanny Brice, Night Club, and made The Battle of Paris with Gertrude Lawrence.
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Robert Florey went to England to direct a French musical, The Road Is Fine, and to Germany for My Wife's Teacher, a Spanish language version of the film Rendezvous.
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Robert Florey did Black and White with Raimu, co-directing with Marc Allegret.
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Robert Florey made a significant but uncredited contribution to the script of the 1931 version of Frankenstein.
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Robert Florey was to be given the job of directing Frankenstein, and filmed a screen test with Bela Lugosi playing the monster, but Universal Pictures wound up giving the job to James Whale, who cast Boris Karloff.
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Robert Florey directed The Man Called Back with Conrad Nagel for Tiffany Pictures, and Those We Love with Mary Astor.
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Robert Florey wrote the script for a version of A Study in Scarlet.
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Robert Florey did some uncredited work on Go Into Your Dance with Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler and was assistant director on I've Got Your Number.
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Robert Florey did some location filming in China for Oil for the Lamps of China.
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Robert Florey directed Going Highbrow with Guy Kibbee, Don't Bet on Blondes with William, and The Payoff with James Dunn.
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Robert Florey did some uncredited work on Rose of the Rancho.
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Robert Florey's films were marked by fast pace, cynical tone, Dutch angles, and dramatic lighting.
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Robert Florey went to Columbia for The Face Behind the Mask with Peter Lorre, Meet Boston Blackie with Chester Morris, and Two in a Taxi with Anita Louise.
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Robert Florey went to Republic for Man from Frisco.
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Back at Warners Robert Florey directed God Is My Co-Pilot with Morgan, and Danger Signal with Emerson and Zachary Scott.
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Robert Florey did some uncredited work on San Antonio with Errol Flynn and returned to the horror genre with The Beast with Five Fingers.
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Robert Florey was associate director to Charlie Chaplin on Chaplin's film Monsieur Verdoux.
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Robert Florey did The Crooked Way with John Payne, The Vicious Years, Johnny One-Eye with Pat O'Brien, and Charlie's Haunt with Edgar Bergen then did some uncredited work on Flynn's The Adventure of Captain Fabian.
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Robert Florey wrote a number of books, including Pola Negri and Charlie Chaplin, Hollywood d'hier et d'aujord'hui, La Lanterne magique, and Hollywood annee zero.
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In 1950, Robert Florey was made a knight in the French Legion d'honneur.
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Robert Florey was married once from 1928 to 1936 and then a second time to Virginia Florey who lived until 2000.
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Robert Florey is buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles with his second wife.