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| Katherine DeMille (left) with Wallace Beery and extras in Viva Villa! |
Waters (not the John Waters of current fame) seems to have had his hands full as AD on this hokey but enjoyable picture ostensibly about the Mexican revolutionary, played by Wallace Beery. Howard Hawks, who was hired to direct, might have made a better movie of it, but he had small patience with the film's control-freak producer, David O. Selznick, and was replaced by the more docile Jack Conway. Lee Tracy was cast as an American journalist instrumental in creating the legend of Pancho Villa, but he was fired after an incident in which, while on location, he allegedly urinated on some Mexican cadets from a hotel balcony, and was replaced by Stuart Erwin. Waters had directed some films in the 1920s, but moved into the assistant director or second unit director role after 1929.
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