This is a vintage original movie still photograph from Girls' Dormitory, a 1936 romance film directed by Irving Cummings (kneeling center) based upon the 1934 play Mature by Ladislas Fodor, and adapted for the screen by Gene Markey. The film stars Herbert Marshall, Ruth Chatterton, Simone Simon, Constance Collier, Dixie Dunbar, Shirley Deane, Tyrone Power,...
Irving Cummings (1888 – 1959) was an American movie actor and director beginning in the early silent era. Acting in the Proctor Stock Company, Cummings appeared with Lillian Russell and other actresses. He entered into movies in 1909, and quickly became a popular leading man. Few of the films he made as an actor are easily available, except for Buster Keaton's first feature film, The Saphead (1920), in which Cummings plays a crooked stockbroker and Fred Niblo's film Sex (1920), one of the first films to depict a new phenomenon in 1920s America, the Flapper. Both films are readily available on home video, as well as The Round-Up (1920), a Western drama starring Roscoe Arbuckle (with the famous tagline "Nobody loves a fat man") and featuring Wallace Beery.
Around that time, he started to direct action movies and occasional comedies. In 1934, Cummings directed Grand Canary, and in 1929, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his direction of In Old Arizona. Cummings was known for the big splashy 1930s Technicolor musicals with popular leading ladies such as Betty Grable, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, and Shirley Temple (Little Miss Broadway, 1938) he directed at 20th Century Fox.
Cummings has a star at 6816 Hollywood Boulevard on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.
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