Larry Darmour
Lawrence J. Darmour (1895-1942) was an American film producer, operator of Larry Darmour Productions from 1927, and a significant figure in Hollywood's Poverty Row. Darmour was born in Flushing, Queens. In September 1927 he released the first entry in the Mickey McGuire series of short subjects, starring a young Mickey Rooney. This series would run for seven years, through about 23 silent shorts and another 40 sound shorts. They were released through Joseph P. Kennedy's FBO, then RKO Radio Pictures. Rooney's popularity provided a base for Darmour to expand into short subjects featuring Karl Dane, Alberta Vaughn, Louise Fazenda and others, and eventually into low-budget features, using owned studio space on Santa Monica Boulevard. The company's first feature is Sea Devils, 1931, starring Molly O'Day. Into the 1930s the company began producing a stream of formulaic westerns, serials, and film series like The Whistler, the ten Crime Doctor films, and Ellery Queen. Simultaneously Darmour also began producing for the higher-budget Majestic Pictures, until 1935, when Majestic was absorbed into Republic Pictures.
Executive Producer
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The Sin of Nora Moran
A weird and wonderful slab of homegrown surrealism, THE SIN OF NORA MORAN’s surprisingly complex narration and florid montage editing makes it well-deserving of the UCLA Festival of Preservation’s accolades as “haunting, hallucinatory, artistic, exploitative…maybe the best...Watch Movie -
Sing, Sinner, Sing
This lively Pre-Code mix of music and melodrama crams a lot, stretching from gambling-ship revelry to Death Row, into its short feature runtime. Lela Larson (Leila Hyams) is the star blonde torch singer on Queen of Joy, "the floating Monte Carlo." When she witnesses a...Watch Movie
Producer
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The Scarlet Letter
The heartbreaking Colleen Moore stars as Hester Prynne, living in Puritan New England in the era of torture and "witch" burnings. She is convicted of adultery after giving birth to a daughter out of wedlock and condemned to wear a scarlet letter "A" on her chest for the rest...Watch Movie

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