Back From the Front

Jules White born Julius Weiss was a film director and producer best known for his short-subject comedies starring the Three Stooges. White began working in motion pictures in the 1910s, as a child actor, for Pathé Studios. By the 1920s his brother Jack White had become a successful comedy... producer at Educational Pictures, and Jules worked for him as a film editor. Jules became a director in 1926, specializing in comedies. In 1930 White and his boyhood friend Zion Myers moved to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. They conceived and co-directed M-G-M's gimmicky "Dogville" comedies, which featured trained dogs in satires of recent Hollywood films . White and Myers co-directed the Buster Keaton feature Sidewalks of New York, and launched a series of "Goofy Movies," one-reel parodies of silent-era melodramas. White appears in a small role as a Confederate soldier in the controversial film Birth of a Nation. In 1933 White was appointed head of Columbia Pictures' short-subject division, which became the most prolific comedy factory in Hollywood.
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