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Adrienne Marden
Adrienne Marden (born Mabel Adrienne Baruch, September 2, 1909 – November 9, 1978) was an American film and television actress. Early years Marden was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Lenore (Stein) and Ralph Baruch. Marden attended the University of Michigan, where she was active in dramatics. Career Marden gained early acting experience in stock theater companies in Cleveland. She also directed musicals in some small towns in Ohio before moving to California and joining the Pasadena Playhouse. One of Marden's first film roles was playing a czar's daughter in ''Rasputin and the Empress'' (1932), in which she was billed as Mabel Marden. Marden debuted on Broadway Broadway may refer to: Theatre * Broadway Theatre (other) * Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. ** Broadway (Manhattan), the street **Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ... in '' Merrily We Roll Along'' (1934). Her other Broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. maritime border with Canada, northeast of Cincinnati, northeast of Columbus, and approximately west of Pennsylvania. The largest city on Lake Erie and one of the major cities of the Great Lakes region, Cleveland ranks as the 54th-largest city in the U.S. with a 2020 population of 372,624. The city anchors both the Greater Cleveland metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and the larger Cleveland–Akron–Canton combined statistical area (CSA). The CSA is the most populous in Ohio and the 17th largest in the country, with a population of 3.63 million in 2020, while the MSA ranks as 34th largest at 2.09 million. Cleveland was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River by General Moses Cleaveland, after whom the city was named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star For A Night (film)
''Star for a Night'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Claire Trevor, Jane Darwell and Arline Judge.Goble p.965 The film's sets were designed by the art director Duncan Cramer Duncan Cramer (1901–1980) was an American motion picture art director active from 1929 to 1971. He headed the Art Department of 20th Century Fox Studios, and is credited for the sets of more than a hundred films and television series. Cramer an .... Partial cast References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1936 films 1936 drama films American drama films Films directed by Lewis Seiler 20th Century Fox films American black-and-white films Films scored by Samuel Kaylin 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man From Del Rio
''Man from Del Rio'' is a 1956 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Harry Horner and written by Richard Carr. The film stars Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Peter Whitney, Douglas Fowley, John Larch, Whit Bissell and Douglas Spencer. The film was released October 30, 1956, by United Artists. Plot Dave is a gunfighter who beats two other gunfighters in a duel and gets hired as the new sheriff. His popularity with the lower elements of the society quickly fades away and the rich begin to despise him. Cast *Anthony Quinn as Dave Robles *Katy Jurado as Estella *Peter Whitney as Ed Bannister *Douglas Fowley as Doc Adams *John Larch as Bill Dawson *Whit Bissell as Breezy Morgan *Douglas Spencer as Sheriff Jack Tillman *Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Fred Jasper References External links * 1956 films 1956 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films American Western (genre) films Films directed by Harry Horner United Artists films 1950s English-language f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count Three And Pray (film)
''Count Three and Pray'' is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Van Heflin and Joanne Woodward in her first feature film. It was based on the story "Calico Pony" (also the working title of the film) by Herb Meadow. It premiered in Woodward's home town, Greenville, South Carolina, at the Paris Theatre. Plot Former brawler and womanizer Luke Fargo returns from the American Civil War to his Southern hometown a greatly changed man. Following his traumatic experience at the Battle of Vicksburg, he has become a minister, intent on rebuilding the town's only church, which burned down. He is greeted with disbelief by his friends, including Matty, and with outright hostility by the rest of the townsfolk, as he fought on the Union side. Particularly opposed to him is Yancey Huggins, who sees a threat to his iron-fisted control of the town. Huggins gets the aptly named Big to fight Fargo, but Fargo wins. Fargo encounters two very different wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Desire
''One Desire'' is a 1955 Technicolor drama romance film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Anne Baxter, Julie Adams and Rock Hudson. Described as a "rugged story of oil-boom Oklahoma in the early 1900s", it was adapted from Conrad Richter's best-selling 1942 novel ''Tacey Cromwell''. Baxter portrays a gambling house owner, Hudson a card dealer turned bank president and Adams the woman who comes between them. A young Natalie Wood is also in a featured role. Although the music is generally by Frank Skinner, the film features a Henry Mancini song sung by Gene Boyd and backed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra which was uncredited to Mancini. Plot Clint Saunders is dismissed from his job as the White Palace saloon's card dealer after coming to work late. He doesn't mind, wishing to leave for Colorado and the lucrative silver mines there. Saloon owner Tacey Cromwell, in love with Clint, decides to leave with him and Clint's little brother Nugget, even though Clint doesn't wish to settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shrike (film)
''The Shrike'' is a 1955 American film noir drama film based on Joseph Kramm's play of the same name. José Ferrer directed and starred in Ketti Frings' screenplay adaptation. Plot Successful stage director Jim Downs (Ferrer) is driven to a mental breakdown by his domineering wife Ann (June Allyson). Institutionalized, he confides in Dr. Bellman (Kendall Clark) and Dr. Barrow (Isabel Bonner), and he finds a kindred spirit in Charlotte Moore (Joy Page). Cast * José Ferrer as Jim Downs * June Allyson as Ann Downs * Joy Page as Charlotte Moore * Kendall Clark as Dr. Bellman * Isabel Bonner as Dr. Barrow * Will Kuluva as Ankoritis * Joe Comadore as Major * Billy M. Greene as Schloss * Leigh Whipper as Mr. Carlisle * Richard Benedict as Gregory * Mary Bell as Miss Wingate * Martin Newman as Carlos O'Brien * Herbie Faye as Tager * Somer Alberg as Dr. Schlesinger * Jay Barney as Dr. Kramer * Edward C. Platt as Harry Downs * Fay Morley as Jennifer Logan * Jacqueline de Wit as Kathar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inferno (1953 Film)
''Inferno'' is a 1953 American drama/thriller starring Robert Ryan, William Lundigan and Rhonda Fleming, directed by Roy Ward Baker. It was shot in Technicolor and shown in 3-D, with stereophonic sound. Plot When millionaire industrialist Donald Carson III breaks his leg during a trip through the Mojave Desert, his wife Gerry and her lover mining engineer Joe Duncan tell him they will seek medical aid. They deliberately don't return however, hoping Carson will perish while he is stranded alone in the desert. He vows to survive in order to exact revenge on his adulterous wife and her accomplice, who have flown to Carson's mansion in Los Angeles, while waiting for him to succumb to either desert heat or suicide. Instead he fashions a splint for his leg, enabling him to limp down the rocks where he was left and head through the desert. He successfully digs a well and shoots a deer, making strips of dried meat that will last for days. Law enforcement officers had hoped to find the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Crossing
''Dangerous Crossing'' is a 1953 American film noir mystery film directed by Joseph M. Newman and starring Jeanne Crain and Michael Rennie, based on the 1943 play '' Cabin B-13'' by John Dickson Carr. The plot of the film centers on the gaslighting of a female protagonist aboard a cruise vessel. Plot Newlywed Ruth (Stanton) Bowman (Jeanne Crain) joyously starts a honeymoon cruise to Europe with her husband John Bowman (Carl Betz), only to have him go missing shortly after they check into their cabin. Compounding her confusion, Ruth finds that she is registered solo under her maiden name in a different cabin and that none of the crew members who could have seen her husband on the ship remember him. These include the ship's purser (Gayne Whitman), stewardess Anna Quinn ( Mary Anderson), and second officer Jim Logan (Max Showalter). After she talks to the captain (Willis Bouchey), he orders the ship searched for the missing John Bowman. However, the captain notices that Ruth isn't we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sniper (1952 Film)
''The Sniper'' is a 1952 American film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk, written by Harry Brown and based on a story by Edna and Edward Anhalt. The film features Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr and Marie Windsor. The film marks Dmytryk's return to directing after he had first been named to the Hollywood blacklist and had a jail term for contempt of Congress. He chose to testify in April 1951, and named fellow members of leftist organizations from his brief time with the Communist Party. Afterward he went into political exile in England for a time. Producer Stanley Kramer was the first to hire him again as a director. The film was shot on location in San Francisco, though the city is not named in the film. Plot Eddie Miller (Arthur Franz), a delivery man, struggles with his hatred of women. This hatred is exacerbated if he feels drawn to a woman who turns out to be unattainable; he tends to see this as a personal affront. Also, he is especially bothered when he sees wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superman And The Mole Men
''Superman and the Mole Men'' is a 1951 American independent black-and-white superhero film released by Lippert Pictures. Produced by Barney A. Sarecky and directed by Lee Sholem, it stars George Reeves as Superman and Phyllis Coates as Lois Lane. It is the first feature film based on any DC Comics character. The film's storyline covers reporters Clark Kent (George Reeves) and Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates) arriving in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, bald humanoids who, out of curiosity, climb to the surface at night. They glow in the dark, which scares the local townfolk, who form a mob intent on killing the strange visitors. Only Superman can intervene to prevent a tragedy. Plot Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to report on the world's deepest oil well. That night two small, furry, bald-headed dwarf humanoids come up through the sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah Wagon Train
''Utah Wagon Train'' is a 1951 American Western film directed by Philip Ford, written by John K. Butler, and starring Rex Allen, Penny Edwards, Buddy Ebsen, Roy Barcroft, Sarah Padden and Grant Withers. It was released on October 15, 1951, by Republic Pictures. Plot Cast *Rex Allen as Rex Allen *Koko as Koko * Penny Edwards as Nancy Bonner *Buddy Ebsen as Snooper *Roy Barcroft as Henchman Hank Driscoll *Sarah Padden as Sarah Wendover *Grant Withers as Red Bancroft *Arthur Space as Robert Hatfield *Edwin Rand as Jess Sutton *Robert Karnes as Henchman Jack Scully *William Holmes as Henchman Pete Millan *Stanley Andrews as Sheriff *Frank Jenks as Hap *Al Bridge as Sam Sickle *Forrest Taylor as Cyrus Bonner *Louis Mason as Hotel Clerk *Peggy Walker as Mrs. Emily Sutton *Adrienne Marden Adrienne Marden (born Mabel Adrienne Baruch, September 2, 1909 – November 9, 1978) was an American film and television actress. Early years Marden was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Payment On Demand
''Payment on Demand'' is a 1951 American drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Bette Davis and Barry Sullivan. The screenplay by Bernhardt and Bruce Manning chronicles a marriage from its idealistic early days to its dissolution. Plot In the opening scenes we meet San Francisco socialite Joyce Ramsey, her daughter Dee; Dee’s fiancée, a banker; Joyce’s husband, David; their daughter, Martha, a college student; Martha’s outspoken boyfriend, Phil Polanski, who is working his way through college to become an agricultural chemist. Joyce is concerned about Phil’s working-class background: His family is Czech and his father works as a taxi starter at the Union Terminal. Joyce is clearly accustomed to managing everything around her in order to maintain the position, family and success that she and David set out to achieve. David is preoccupied and unhappy, and while he is dressing for dinner, he suddenly asks for a divorce, which stuns her. He tells her he is leavi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
