Andre Roosevelt

Andre Roosevelt (c. 1879-July 1962) was an American filmmaker. He was born in Paris, France to Cornelius Roosevelt (1847-1902), a cousin of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, who married a French actress. Cornelius was the black sheep of the Roosevelt family, who paid him off to fade away and live in Paris.

Roosevelt was an adventurer, traveling to Bali in 1924, attempting to develop the tourist market but at the same time preserve Bali's cultural integrity.cite web|last=Chin|first=Michelle|title=Bali in Film|url=http://www.michellechin.net/writings/04.html|publisher=Bali Echo|date=2001] He envisioned making Bali a national or international park with laws to regulate it as such. In 1928 and 1929, he and Armand Denis shot "Goona-Goona, An Authentic Melodrama" (also called "The Kris") with assistance from Walter Spies. It was released in America in 1930 and started an American craze for Bali.

He was also well known for his 1938 film "Beyond the Caribbean". He died in July 1962 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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