guess who was born on Leap Day???? William A Wellman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.  thanks to the glorious Film Forum, we saw 18 of his films over the past two weeks!!!! 18!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

top left – Wellman, wife Dorothy Coonan and children on the set of Battleground

top right – Marjorie Crawford lights husband Wellman’s pipe

bottom left – Wellman directs Loretta Young and Franchot Tone in Midnight Mary

bottom right -Wellman directs Irene Dunne and Mary Boland in Stingaree

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