Ray Enright (March 25, 1896 – April 3, 1965) was an American

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...

. He directed 73 films between 1927–53, many of them for Warner Bros. He oversaw comedy films like Joe E. Brown vehicles, five of the six informal pairings of

Joan Blondell Joan Blondell (born Rose Joan Bluestein; August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in film and television for 50 years. Blondell began her career in vaudeville. After winning a beauty pageant, she embarked on ...

and

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, and later directed a number of Westerns, many featuring

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. Enright was born in

Anderson, Indiana Anderson, named after Chief William Anderson, is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is the principal city of the Anderson, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses Madison County. Anderson ...

, and died in

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, from a

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Partial filmography

As director

*'' Tracked by the Police'' (1927) *'' Jaws of Steel'' (1927) *''

The Girl from Chicago ''The Girl from Chicago'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux, with an all- African-American cast including lead actors Grace Smith and Carl Mahon. The story concerns a federal agent who falls in lov ...

'' (1927) *'' Domestic Troubles'' (1928) *''

Song of the West ''Song of the West'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical western film produced by Warner Bros., and photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the 1928 Broadway musical ''Rainbow'' by Vincent Youmans (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (l ...

'' (1930) *''

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'' (1930) *'' Dancing Sweeties'' (1930) *''

Scarlet Pages ''Scarlet Pages'' is a 1930 pre-Code American crime drama film with songs starring Elsie Ferguson and directed by Ray Enright. It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. The film stars Elsie Fer ...

'' (1930) *'' Play Girl'' (1932) *''

Blondie Johnson ''Blondie Johnson'' is a 1933 American pre-Code gangster film directed by Ray Enright and starring Joan Blondell and Chester Morris. It was produced by Warner Bros. Plot Set during the Great Depression, Blondie Johnson (Joan Blondell) quits ...

'' (1933) *'' Tomorrow at Seven'' (1933) *''

Havana Widows ''Havana Widows'' is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Ray Enright, starring Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell. It was released by Warner Bros. on November 18, 1933. Two chorus girls travel to Havana in search of rich husbands. T ...

'' (1933) *'' I've Got Your Number'' (1934) *'' Twenty Million Sweethearts'' (1934) *'' The Circus Clown'' (1934) *'' Dames'' (1934) *'' The St. Louis Kid'' (1934) *'' While the Patient Slept'' (1935) *'' Traveling Saleslady'' (1935) *'' Alibi Ike'' (1935) *'' Miss Pacific Fleet'' (1935) *''

We're in the Money "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" is a song from the 1933 Warner Bros. film ''Gold Diggers of 1933'', sung in the opening sequence by Ginger Rogers and chorus. The entire song is never performed in the 1933 movie, though it introd ...

'' (1935) *'' Snowed Under'' (1936) *'' Earthworm Tractors'' (1936) *''

China Clipper ''China Clipper'' (NC14716) was the first of three Martin M-130 four-engine flying boats built for Pan American Airways and was used to inaugurate the first commercial transpacific airmail service from San Francisco to Manila on November 22, ...

'' (1936) *'' Ready, Willing, and Able'' (1937) *'' Slim'' (1937) *''

The Singing Marine ''The Singing Marine'' is a 1937 American musical film directed by Ray Enright and Busby Berkeley and starring Dick Powell. It was the last of Powell's trio of service-related Warners films: 1934's ''Flirtation Walk'' paid tribute, of sorts ...

'' (1937) *'' Swing Your Lady'' (1938) *''

Gold Diggers in Paris ''Gold Diggers in Paris'' is a 1938 Warner Bros. movie musical directed by Ray Enright with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane, Hugh Herbert, and Allen Jenkins. Plot Maurice Giraud ( ...

'' (1938) *'' Hard to Get'' (1938) *'' Going Places'' (1938) *'' The Angels Wash Their Faces'' (1939) *''

On Your Toes ''On Your Toes'' (1936) is a musical with a book by Richard Rodgers, George Abbott, and Lorenz Hart, music by Rodgers, and lyrics by Hart. It was adapted into a film in 1939. While teaching music at Knickerbocker University, Phil "Junior" Dolan ...

'' (1939) *'' Brother Rat and a Baby'' (1940) *'' Teddy, the Rough Rider'' (1940 short) *'' An Angel from Texas'' (1940) *'' The Wagons Roll at Night'' (1941) *'' Bad Men of Missouri'' (1941) *'' Law of the Tropics'' (1941) *'' Wild Bill Hickok Rides'' (1942) *'' The Spoilers'' (1942) *'' Sin Town'' (1942) *'' Gung Ho!'' (1943) *''

China Sky ''China Sky'' is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1941. The story centers on love, honor, and wartime treachery in an American-run hospital in the fictional town of Chen-li, China, during the Japanese invasion. The book was the basis of a 1 ...

'' (1945) *'' Man Alive'' (1945) *'' One Way to Love'' (1946) *''

Trail Street ''Trail Street'' is a 1947 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys and George "Gabby" Hayes. Based on the novel ''Golden Horizons'' by William Corcoran, and a screenplay by Norman Hou ...

'' (1947) *''

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'' (1948) *'' Coroner Creek'' (1948) *'' Return of the Bad Men'' (1948) *'' South of St. Louis'' (1949) *''

Montana Montana () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West List of regions of the United States#Census Bureau-designated regions and divisions, division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North ...

'' (1950) *'' Kansas Raiders'' (1950) *'' Flaming Feather'' (1952) *''

The Man from Cairo ''The Man from Cairo'' ( it, Dramma nella Kasbah/Avventura ad Algeri) is a 1953 British/Italian/American international coproduction film noir starring George Raft, who plays a man who is mistaken for a detective and sent to find lost World ...

'' (1953)

As screenwriter

*'' Gold Dust Gertie'' (1931) *''

Side Show In North America, a sideshow is an extra, secondary production associated with a circus, carnival, fair, or other such attraction. Types There are four main types of classic sideshow attractions: *The Ten-in-One offers a program of ten s ...

'' (1931)

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