Rowland Vance Lee Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Rowland Vance Lee (September 6, 1891, Findlay, Ohio – December 21, 1975, Palm Desert, California) was an American film director, writer and producer. In 1929, he directed The Wolf of Wall Street featuring George Bancroft.Lee directed The Son of Monte Cristo (1940), starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett and George Sanders. He was one of the 11 co-directors of Paramount Pictures' all-star revue Paramount on Parade (1930). He made creative use of the then-new sound medium in the near-fantasy treatment of Zoo in Budapest (1933).He also directed The Guilty Generation (1931), Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Tower of London (1939) and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944).He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6313 Hollywood Blvd.
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He had his own 214-acre movie ranch, located in the San Fernando Valley in California. He purchased the property in 1935 and called it Farm Lake Ranch, but the film industry always knew it as the Rowland V. Lee Ranch, with its pale brown hills of barley chaff and olive and eucalyptus trees and two scenic lakes, but for some reason it wasn't used much for westerns. For I've Always Loved You (1946), Republic Pictures built an extensive farmhouse and barn set. It also constructed a stone and wood bridge over one of the lakes, which would usually be photographed as a river. The farmhouse set would be adapted and modified over the years. RKO used it as a period French farmhouse for its modest swashbuckler At Sword's Point (1952). Its most famous use was as an Indiana Quaker family farm during the Civil War in Allied Artists' Friendly Persuasion (1956). To give it that "Indiana look", director William Wyler had cornfields planted, sycamore trees brought in and huge areas covered with green grass. The wooden farmhouse was also given a fake stone facade. You'll also see the ranch used to great effect in Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951) and in Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955). After Lee died in 1975, the ranch was developed into an expensive gated community called Hidden Lake Estates.
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