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W.S. Van Dyke
W.S. Van Dyke (standing, right) directing Myrna Loy and William Powell during the filming of The Thin Man (1934); cinematographer James Wong Howe is on the left.
The film Trader Horn (1931), directed by W.S. Van Dyke, centers on the story of two traders in Africa who embark on a search for the missing daughter of a missionary.1