George Somnes

George Somnes, born George Carleton Flye (July 7, 1887 in Newcastle, Maine – February 8, 1956 in Denver, Colorado, US) was an American theatre director and producer and film director. Mainly involved in theatre, his film career was short, directing The Girl in 419, Midnight Club and Torch Singer in 1933 and Wharf Angel in 1934, co-directing either with Alexander Hall or William Cameron Menzies.[1][2]

Somnes and wife Helen Bonfils, c.1950

On stage he directed productions such as the drama Reprise (1935), the comedies Sun Kissed (1937) and The Greatest Show on Earth (1938), the melodrama Brown Danube (1939), and the drama Land's End (1946).[3] He was a producer for while at Elitch's Theater, where he met his future wife Helen Bonfils, whom he married in 1936.[4] The couple lived in the Wood-Morris-Bonfils House in Denver. Somnes died in 1956 and was buried in the Bonfils family vault at the Fairmount Mausoleum in Denver, and was joined by Bonfils in 1972.[5]

References
  1. Aaker, Everett (19 April 2013). George Raft: The Films. McFarland. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-7864-9313-5.
  2. Fischer, Dennis (17 June 2011). Science Fiction Film Directors, 1895-1998. McFarland. p. 432. ISBN 978-0-7864-8505-5.
  3. "George Somnes". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  4. Riley, Marilyn Griggs (2006). High Altitude Attitudes: Six Savvy Colorado Women. Big Earth Publishing. pp. 79–80. ISBN 1555663753.
  5. Fairmount Heritage Foundation


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