Emmett J. Flynn
assistant_director, director, writer
- Born:
- 1892-11-09, Denver, Colorado, USA
- Died:
- 1937-06-04, Hollywood, California, USA
- Professions:
- assistant_director, director, writer
Biography
Born under the crisp Colorado sky on 9 November 1892, Emmett J. Flynn grew up in Denver before chasing the flickering new art of moving pictures. Behind the camera he turned pulp into poetry, guiding Lon Chaney through the grim heart of *Shame* (1921), unleashing a gentleman bandit on *The Lincoln Highwayman* (1919), and splashing carnival sin across the screen in *The Palace of Pleasure* (1926). Off-set he collected three wives—silent-star Margaret Shelby, dancer Nita Flynn, and writer Genevieve Flynn—each marriage a new reel in his private epic. The final curtain fell on 4 June 1937 in Hollywood, California, but the images he crafted still race through the projector beam of film history.
