Robert Kane (producer)

Robert Kane
Kane in wearing a European Expeditionary Force uniform and his Belgium Croix de guerre
Born	September 15, 1886 Jamestown, New York United States
Died	January 5, 1957 Honolulu, Hawaii United States
Other names	Robert T. Kane
Occupation	Producer
Years active	1925-1948

Robert Kane (1886 – 1957) was an American film producer. He is sometimes credited as Robert T. Kane.

Biography

In 1930 Paramount Pictures put Kane in charge of the Joinville Studios in Paris where the company made multiple-language versions in various different languages. The move was a response to the introduction of sound film which meant English-language films made in Hollywood were no longer suitable for non-English-speaking markets. Joinville produced hundreds of films in a two-year period, before dubbing became more widespread.

In the late 1930s Kane was involved with 20th Century Fox's British subsidiary which made expensive productions rather than the quota quickies that had been made there by American companies earlier in the decade. In 1937 he produced Wings of the Morning, the first technicolor film to be made in the British Isles. He returned to the United States following the outbreak of the Second World War, where he worked on the bullfighting drama Blood and Sand starring Tyrone Power.

Selected filmography

• French Dressing (1927)
• Orchids to You (1935)
• Dressed to Thrill (1935)
• Keep Smiling (1937)
• Under the Red Robe (1937)
• Wings of the Morning (1937)
• Dinner at the Ritz (1937)
• So This Is London (1939)
• Inspector Hornleigh (1939)
• Shipyard Sally (1939)
• Blood and Sand (1941)
• A Very Young Lady (1941)
• The Sullivans (1944)
• Canon City (1948)
• He Walked by Night (1948)

Bibliography

• Jarvinen, Lisa. The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking: Out from Hollywood's Shadow, 1929-1939. Rutger's University Press, 2012.

External links

• Robert Kane at IMDb