Don Alvarado (November 4, 1904 - March 31, 1967) was an American actor, assistant film director, and film production manager. November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... 1904 (MCMIV) is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Theatrical production management is a sub-division of stagecraft. ...

Born José Paige in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1922 he went to Los Angeles hoping to find acting work in the film industry. There, he became close friends with another Mexican actor, Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, who would become a film star using the stage name of Gilbert Roland. The struggling young actors shared a place for a time but Alvarado soon met and fell in love with sixteen-year-old Ann Boyar (1908-1990), the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. They married in 1924 and that year had a daughter, actress Joy Page. Alvarado and his wife divorced in 1930 and she remarried film mogul Jack Warner in 1936. Nickname: The Duke City Motto: Official website: http://www. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... A stage name, or a screen name for movie stars, is a pseudonym used by performers and actors. ... Gilbert Roland (December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994) was an American actor. ... Jews (Hebrew: יהודים translit. ... Joy Page (born November 9, 1924) is an American actress best known for her role as the Bulgarian bride Annina Brandel in the movie Casablanca. ... Jack Warner Jack Warner (J.L. for short) (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born Jacob Leonard Warner in London, Ontario, Canada, was the president and driving force behind the highly successful development of Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. ...

Don Alvarado got his first uncredited silent film part in 1924 and, with the studio capitalizing on his "Latin Lover" looks, he was very shortly cast in secondary then leading roles. The advent of talkies all but ended his starring roles but he still managed to work regularly, usually cast in secondary Spanish character roles. In 1939, using the name "Don Page" for screen credit purposes, he began working as an assistant director for Warner Bros. and a few years later as a prodiction manager. In these capacities he was part of the team that made a number of highly successful films including The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause in 1955, and in 1958 his final film work, The Old Man and the Sea. A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... A sound film (or talkie) is a motion picture with synchronized sound, as opposed to a silent movie. ... Credits for A Christmas Story. ... The WB Shield used from 2003 to present day Warner Bros. ... The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a black & white 1948 John Huston film in which two american down-and-outers (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) in 1920s Mexico (bothering director John Huston for money in a fun opening cameo) hook up with an old-timer (Walter Huston, the director... East of Eden book cover East of Eden is a novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952. ... Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 film which tells the story of a rebellious teenager who comes to a new town, meets a girl, defies his parents and faces the local gang. ... Original book cover The Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. ...

Don Alvarado died of cancer in 1967 in Hollywood and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood Hills. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Don Alvarado has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6504 Hollywood Blvd. When normal cells are damaged beyond repair, they are eliminated by apoptosis. ... Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery is located at 6300 Forest Lawn Drive in Los Angeles, California, on the south edge of the San Fernando Valley by Burbank (and on the north side of the Santa Monica Mountains from Hollywood). ... The Hollywood Hills, an unofficial designation of part of the City of Los Angeles, California, are part of the eastern section of the low transverse range of the Santa Monica Mountains, which extends from the Los Feliz District and Hollywood, on the south side of the Valley, to Pacific Coast... An example of a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, for the film actress Carole Lombard. ...

External link

• Don Alvarado at the Internet Movie Database