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Abner Biberman
Abner Warren Biberman (April 1, 1909 – June 20, 1977) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter. Early years Biberman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, later moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He gained early acting experience as a student at the Tome School for Boys prep school. He also attended the University of Pennsylvania. Career He was sometimes credited under the pseudonym Joel Judge. Death Biberman died at his home in San Diego, California. His obituary in ''The New York Times'' gave his age as 69. He was survived by his wife and three sons. Filmography As actor *1936: '' Soak the Rich'' *1939: ''Gunga Din'' - Chota *1939: ''Panama Patrol'' - Arlie Johnson *1939: ''Panama Lady'' - Elisha *1939: ''The Magnificent Fraud'' - Ruiz *1939: ''Each Dawn I Die'' - Shake Edwards (uncredited) *1939: ''Lady of the Tropics'' - Wardrobe buyer (uncredited) *1939: ''The Rains Came'' - John, the Baptist *1939: ''The Roaring Twenties'' - Lefty, Hally's Henchm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Submarine Alert
''Submarine Alert'' is a 1943 American film directed by Frank McDonald, produced by Pine-Thomas Productions and released by Paramount Pictures. The film stars Richard Arlen, Wendy Barrie, Nils Asther, Roger Pryor, Marc Lawrence and Ralph Sanford. Plot During World War II, with shipping being sunk by submarines and with an American scientist working on radio technology killed by Nazi spies, FBI agent G. B. Fleming (Roger Pryor) comes up with a plan to catch the Nazis. He believes that radio signals are alerting the Germans about ship movements. His plan is to fire all the local radio specialists, who likely will seek any employment, including working with the enemy. Tailing the jobless radio men will help the FBI find the Nazis. Engineer Lewis J. "Lew" Deerhold (Richard Arlen) thinks he lost his job because he is a Canadian citizen. Lew looks after his niece Tina (Patsy Nash), a war orphan requiring a brain operation. Needing money, he applies for work at a radio repair shop, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe And Ethel Turp Call On The President
''Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President'' is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Robert B. Sinclair and written by Melville Baker. The film stars Ann Sothern, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan, William Gargan, Marsha Hunt and Tom Neal. It was released on December 1, 1939 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot Brooklynites Ethel and Joe Turp visit Washington, D.C. to petition the president to pardon their mailman Jim, who accidentally destroyed a registered letter. Cast *Ann Sothern as Ethel Turp *Lewis Stone as the President *Walter Brennan as Jim *William Gargan as Joe Turp * Marsha Hunt as Kitty Crusper *Tom Neal as Johnny Crusper * James Bush as Henry Crusper *Don Costello as Fred *Muriel Hutchison as Francine La Vaughn *Jack Norton as Parker * Aldrich Bowker as Mike O'Brien * Frederick Burton as Bishop Bannon *Al Shean as Father Reicher *Robert Emmett O'Connor as Pat Donegan * Cliff Clark as Garage Owner * Russell Hicks as Mr. Graves *Paul Everton as Senator *Charles Trowbridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gay Vagabond
''The Gay Vagabond'' is a 1941 American comedy film directed by William Morgan and written by Ewart Adamson and Taylor Caven. The film stars Roscoe Karns, Ruth Donnelly, Ernest Truex, Margaret Hamilton, Abner Biberman and Bernadene Hayes. The film was released on May 12, 1941, by Republic Pictures. Plot Arthur and Jerry Dixon are twin brothers, but they are very different: one is introverted and weak, the other is a womanizer and an adventurer who just arrived from China. The two switch roles. Cast *Roscoe Karns as Arthur Dixon, Jerry Dixon *Ruth Donnelly as Kate Dixon *Ernest Truex as A.J. Wilber * Margaret Hamilton as Agatha Badger *Abner Biberman as Ratmar *Bernadene Hayes as Spring Rutherford *Lynn Merrick as Betty Dixon *Rod Bacon as Franklin Atwater *Gloria Franklin as Sonya * Carol Adams as Lucille *Byron Foulger as Vogel *Paul Newlan Paul Emory Newlan (June 29, 1903 – November 23, 1973) was an American film and TV character actor from Plattsmouth, Nebraska. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore Woman
''Singapore Woman'' is a 1941 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Brenda Marshall and David Bruce. The Warner Bros. B picture is a remake of ''Dangerous'' (1935) using leftover sets from '' The Letter'' (1940). The story was based on Laird Doyle's short ''Hard Luck Dame''. Plot Cast *Brenda Marshall as Vicki Moore * David Bruce as David Ritchie *Virginia Field as Claire Weston *Jerome Cowan as Jim North *Rose Hobart as Alice North *Connie Leon Connie Leon (1881 in Cheshire, England – 10 May 1955 in Los Angeles, California) was an English singer, dancer and film actress. Career Between 1896 and 1909, Connie Leon was popular in provincial theatre as a singer, dancer and comedian, includi ... as Suwa References External links * {{Jean Negulesco 1941 films Films directed by Jean Negulesco Films scored by Adolph Deutsch Warner Bros. films American black-and-white films American romantic drama films 1941 romantic drama films Remakes of American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monster And The Girl
''The Monster and the Girl'' is a 1941 American black-and-white horror film directed by Stuart Heisler and released by Paramount Pictures. Plot The film revolves around a small-town church organist named Scot Webster ( Philip Terry) attempting to save his sister, Susan (Ellen Drew) from the clutches of big city gangster W. S. Bruhl (Paul Lukas). When one of Bruhl's gang members is double-crossed in Bruhl's rented room, and killed by a gunman, the man tosses him the gun and disappears. Scot is tried and executed. A scientist ( George Zucco) salvages his brain and transplants it into a gorilla. Using the strength of his new, bestial body, Webster begins stalking the gangsters to exact his revenge. Cast Production ''The Monster and the Girl'' was developed under the title of ''Dead On Arrival'' and was written as ''D.O.A.''. After the release of Michael Curtiz's film '' The Walking Dead'' in 1936, a few films combined genre themes of crime films and science-fiction horror. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl From Havana
''Girl from Havana'' is a 1940 American drama film directed by Lew Landers and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan and Karl Brown. The film stars Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Carleton, Victor Jory, Steffi Duna, Gordon Jones and Bradley Page. The film was released on September 11, 1940, by Republic Pictures. Plot Woody and Tex, a pair of American oilmen working in South America, both fall for a beautiful young woman they simply call "Havana." The more prosperous suitor is Tex, who just earned a $2,500 bonus due to Woody planting explosives to bring oil up in his derrick, but the oil comes up in Tex's instead. Tex doesn't share the bounty that sets the two against each other. Woody bets Tex in love when Havana is more smitten with Woody, who lands in jail after using Havana's loaded dice in a craps game. Woody, fired from his job, is sprung by pal Tubby Waters, who is then killed by a man named Drenov in a fight when he tries to protect Woody. Woody avenges him by killing Drenov, whose job ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Gloves (1940 Film)
''Golden Gloves'' is a 1940 American crime film directed by Edward Dmytryk. Plot During an amateur boxing prizefight a young boy, Joey Parker, is beaten to death, and there is no acceptable official reason for why it happened. Because of this his sister, Mary Parker, becomes a strong opponent of boxing and all it stands for. A newspaper refuses to print the truth of what lies behind the Parker boy's tragic death, so sportswriter Wally Matson resigns in protest. The truth is that Parker was only one of many boys unscrupulously used by a boxing promoter, Joe Taggerty, who has paid off Wally's editor at the newspaper for his silence. Wally vows to clean up the amateur boxing scene by exposing the corruption. He lands a job at a small newspaper and persuades the publisher to sponsor a legitimate tournament. Wally personally invites amateur Billy Crane to participate in the tournament's opening match. Billy is in love with Parker's sister Mary, so out of consideration for her, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South To Karanga
''South to Karanga'' is a 1940 American action adventure film directed by Harold D. Schuster starring James Craig, Luli Deste and Charles Bickford. Production The film was originally called ''Bombay Uprising'' but was relocated from India to Africa out of fear of offending British audiences. It was known as ''South to Katanga'' before being changed to ''South to Karanga''. Dick Foran was to play to lead but fell ill and was replaced by James Craig. Cast * Charles Bickford as Jeff Worthing * James Craig as Steve Hawley * Luli Deste as Julia Garrett * John Sutton as David Wallace * Maurice Moscovitch as Paul Stacco * Paul Hurst as Slats * Abner Biberman as Manek Sen * Ben Carter as Higgins * Frank Reicher as Doctor Greenleaf * Addison Richards as Edmund Daniels * Joseph Crehan Joseph A. Creaghan (July 15, 1883 – April 15, 1966) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1916 and 1965, and notably played Ulysses S. Grant nine times betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Of Pago Pago
''South of Pago Pago'' is a 1940 American South Seas adventure film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall and Frances Farmer. Premise In 1875 a group of adventurers meet in Singapore to look for pearls in the Pacific Islands: ship's Captain Bucko Larson, his First Mate Williams, Peg Legged Foster and bar girl and adventuress Ruby Taylor. They are guided by a Portuguese sailor Manuel Ferro who knows of virgin pearl beds off the island of Manoa, "south of Pago Pago". They arrive at the island, however when Ferro wants more than his agreed third of a share, Bucko throws him over the side to his doom. Passing out gifts, the amiable Bucko recruits the native divers to obtain pearls. When there are not many suitable pearls in the shallow waters, Bucko directs the divers to dangerous waters that cause death and severe injuries through decompression sickness. He his initial success in getting them to continue their diving by providing them more gifts and al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ski Patrol (1940 Film)
:''See also Ski Patrol (other)'' ''Ski Patrol'' is a 1940 American war film directed by Lew Landers, produced by Ben Pivar and Warren Douglas and released by Universal Pictures. It is known to be the only Hollywood film about the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union. Two rival skiers competing in the 1936 Olympics, one Russian and one Finn, are pitted against each other just a few years later, as the Russians attack the Finnish border in the Winter War, and the Finnish heroes defend a snow-laden mountain pass. The plot takes great historical liberties in its storyline. E.g. all "Finnish" uniforms and insignias are wrong. Cast * Philip Dorn as Lt. Viktor Ryder * Luli Deste as Julia Engel * Stanley Fields as Birger Simberg * Samuel S. Hinds as Capt. Per Vallgren * Edward Norris as Paavo Luuki * John Qualen as Gustaf Nerkuu * Hardie Albright as Tyko Gallen * John Arledge as Dick Reynolds * John Ellis as Knut Vallgren * Henry Brandon as Jan Sikorsky * Kathr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enemy Agent
''Enemy Agent'' is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by Lew Landers and starring Richard Cromwell, Helen Vinson, and Robert Armstrong.McLaughlin p.325 The supporting cast includes Jack La Rue, Jack Carson, Philip Dorn and Milburn Stone. It was produced and distributed by Universal Studios Synopsis A network of enemy agents infiltrate an aircraft factory to gain the plans on the United States' war preparations. A draughtsmen at the plant grows suspicious and so they attempt to frame him in the eyes of the FBI investators. Cast * Richard Cromwell as Jimmy Saunders * Helen Vinson as Irene Hunter * Robert Armstrong as Gordon * Marjorie Reynolds as Peggy O'Reilly * Vinton Hayworth as Lester Taylor * Russell Hicks as Lyman Scott * Philip Dorn as Doctor Jeffry Arnold * Jack La Rue as Alex * Bradley Page as Francis * Abner Biberman as Baronoff * Luis Alberni as A. Calteroni * Jack Carson as Ralph * Milburn Stone as Meeker * Henry Victor as Karl * Steve Pendleton as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zanzibar (film)
''Zanzibar'' is a 1940 American adventure film directed by Harold Schuster and starring James Craig, Lola Lane and Eduardo Ciannelli. Premise An expedition in Africa seeks a mysterious skull. Cast * Lola Lane as Jan Browning * James Craig as Steve Marland *Eduardo Ciannelli as Koski *Tom Fadden as Rhad Ramsey * Robert C. Fischer as The Sultan *Henry Victor as Nate Simpson *Clarence Muse as Bino *Samuel S. Hinds as Dale *Oscar O'Shea as Captain Craig *Abner Biberman as Aba *Lionel Pape as Michael Drayton *Everett Brown as Umboga Production James Craig had just signed a contract with Universal. Lola Lane had leapt to fame in ''Four Daughters'' (1938). The film was originally known as ''River of Missing Men'' and started filming in December 1939. References External links *''Zanzibar''at TCMDB''Zanzibar''at BFIReview of filmat ''New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
