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Irving Cummings (October 9 1888 - April 18 1959), born Irving Camisky in New York City, New York was an American movie actor, director, producer and writer. Cummings started his acting career in his late teens on Broadway with the legendary Lillian Russell. He soon entered into movies in 1909 and quickly became a popular leading man. Around that time, he started direct making action movies and occasional comedys.

However, Cummings really shot to fame in the early 1930s with 20th Century Fox when he started to make big splashy Technicolor musicals with popular leading ladies such as Betty Grable, Alicia Faye, and Shirley Temple.

He died in Los Angeles, California in 1959 of a heart ailment.

Few of the films Cummings made as an actor are easily available, except for Buster Keaton's first feature film "The Saphead" (1920) where Cummings plays a crooked stockbroker.

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