William Christy Cabanne (April 16, 1888 – October 15, 1950) was an American film director, screenwriter , and silent film actor.
3-398: Dixie Jamboree is a 1944 American film directed by Christy Cabanne . This article about a musical film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Christy Cabanne Born in 1888, Cabanne (pronounced CAB-a-nay) started his career on stage as an actor and director. He appeared on-screen in dozens of short films from 1911 to 1915. He became a film director and one of
6-698: The more prolific directors of his time. He signed with the Fine Arts Film Company and was employed as an assistant to D.W. Griffith . Miriam Cooper credited him with discovering her as an extra in 1912. Cabanne directed child actress Shirley Temple in The Red-Haired Alibi (1932), her first credited role in a feature movie. Cabanne earned a reputation for efficiency, capable of making feature films very quickly, often on rugged locations. Like fellow silent-era directors William Beaudine , Elmer Clifton , Harry Fraser , and Lambert Hillyer . Cabanne
9-568: Was resourceful, and he worked for both major and minor studios through the 1930s and 1940s. By the 1940s, Cabanne was usually given low-budget action fare at Universal Pictures , and he finished his career making lower-budget westerns for Monogram Pictures . Christy Cabanne married, in December 1912, in New York City, Vivien M. Lyle Montrose. They had children, including Virginia Montrose Cabanne, Julia Gooden Cabanne, and Vivien. After William Cabanne
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