Del Ruth was an American director who began his career in the era of silent films. At first he worked as a journalist and then in 1915 he wrote his first screenplay. He made many short silent films in the first half of the 1920’s and afterwards directed feature films, gradually specializing in the crime dramas characteristic of the Warner Bros studio. Some of his famous films from this period include The Maltese Falcon (1931), Blonde Crazy (1931), Winner Take All (1932), Bureau of Missing Persons (1933) and Lady Killer (1933). He left Warner studio and transferred to MGM where he successfully directed musicals such as Kid Millions (1934), Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), Born to Dance (1936), On the Avenue (1937), Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937), My Lucky Star (1938) and It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947). His biography of the famous baseball player The Babe Ruth Story (1948) received very bad reviews and following its release he returned to comedies and musicals. He continued to direct films until the mid-1950’s, and then started to work on television directing TV series. His last feature films were relatively unnoticed B productions Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954), The Alligator People (1959) and Why Must I Die? (1960).