Assistant director and set designer James P. Hogan was promoted to director in 1920 on the recommendation of his former employers Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Allan Dwan. Consigned mainly to programmers in the silent era, Hogan temporarily left directing in 1931 to concentrate on screenwriting. He returned to the director's chair at Paramount's "B" unit in 1936, where he handled several of the studio...
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