Paul Malvern
Producer Paul Malvern, a former child acrobat with The Ringling Bros. Circus, worked as a movie stuntman during the silent and early talkie eras. While working at low-budget specialist Monogram Pictures, Malvern took over the responsibility of producing films under his newly created "Lone Star Productions" logo. He produced 16 westerns from 1933-35 and worked very closely with John Wayne on his early films. Later in his career Malvern moved over to Universal Studios, where his films generated big business and created a wave of prosperity for the studio that began with the introduction of Deanna Durbin's musicals and lasted until after WW I...read more