William Boyd, idolized as the rugged Hopalong Cassidy, began his career as a romantic and marcelled

William Boyd, idolized as the rugged Hopalong Cassidy, began his career as a romantic and marcelled leading man in the costume dramas of Cecil B. De Mille and D.W. Griffith. Here he is in Griffith’s Lady of the Pavements, 1929, with Jetta Goudal and Lupe Velez.