Obituaries
Rouben Mamoulian, the last surviving founder of the Directors Guild of America, has died at the age of 89 at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills.
Dec. 6, 1987
Movies
Charles Champlin’s interview with Rouben Mamoulian did much to keep that survivor of the glory days of the Hollywood studio empire alive in the minds of a generation weaned on maverick film makers (“Mamoulian: The Directors Guild Midwife,” Jan. 19).
Jan. 26, 1986
Entertainment & Arts
Film director Rouben Mamoulian will receive the annual Jean Renoir Humanitarian Award presented by the Los Angeles Film Teachers Assn. at a dinner dance Friday at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City.
March 4, 1986
Champlin erred in calling one of Mamoulian’s landmark films “Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Rouben Mamoulian directed stars of the stage and screen but he himself was a star of the first magnitude and held his own from the very beginning in this country.
Dec. 18, 1987
California
A dispute over control of the estate of the late Hollywood director Rouben Mamoulian erupted Wednesday--one day before he was to be buried--as a lawyer representing relatives of the film maker and his widow announced that they planned to challenge Los Angeles County’s control of the couple’s affairs.
Dec. 10, 1987
UCLA gift: The estate of Azadia Mamoulian, the widow of famed film director Rouben Mamoulian, has donated $1.1 million to the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television to establish an endowed chair in theater and movie directing.
Aug. 20, 2004
The opening sequence of Rouben Mamoulian’s exquisite 1932 landmark film, regarded as the first screen musical in which songs and dramatic action are truly integrated, exemplifies why Mamoulian was one of Hollywood’s major innovators and stylists.
June 30, 1996
When he was younger, Rouben Mamoulian, who died on Friday at the age of 90, used to be annoyed that people thought he was older than he was.
Dec. 8, 1987