Jean Yarbrough
Jean Yarbrough was an American film director.
Jean Yarbrough was born in Marianna, Arkansas on August 22, 1901. He attended the University of the South located in Sewanee, Tennessee. In 1922, Yarbrough entered the film business working in silent pictures. He was onlyyears of age! He began his career working first as a propman. But, he steadily rose thru the ranks leaning as much as he could in the business to become an assistant director. By 1936, he was a bona fide director, first doing comedy and musical shorts for RKO which was founded by Joseph P. Kennedy among others. His directorial debut for a featurelength film was Rebellious Daughters which was made by the lowbudget studio, Progressive Pictures in 1938. His greatest success came in the 1940s, when he directed movies that are still fondly remembered to this day, such as The Devil Bat, King of the Zombies, SheWolf of London, and a number of Abbott and Costello comedies. Yarbrough directed two of The Bowery Boys movies which was the longest running series in American mov
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