Robert Florey
Robert Florey was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and actor. Florey directed more than 50 films, the majority of them during the 1930s, with the best known likely being the Marx Brothers first feature The Cocoanuts (1929). His 1932 foray into Universal-style horror, Murders in the Rue Morgue, is regarded by horror fans as highly reflective of German expressionism. In 2006, when his film Daughter of Shanghai (1937) was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, he was noted as being "widely acclaimed as the best director working in major studio B-films".
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