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Alexander Hall (Seattle)
Alexander Hall (January 11, 1894 – July 30, 1968) was an American film director, film editor and theatre actor. Biography Hall acted in the theatre from the age of 4 through 1914, when he began to work in silent movies. Following his military service in World War I, he returned to Hollywood and pursued a career in film production. He worked as a film editor and assistant director at Paramount Pictures until 1932, when he directed his first feature film ''Sinners in the Sun''. From 1937 to 1947, he was a contract director at Columbia Pictures, where he earned a reputation for sophisticated comedies. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for ''Here Comes Mr. Jordan'' (1941). From 1934 to 1936, Hall was married to actress Lola Lane. He was also married to Marjorie Hunter. In 1952, Hall had a home in Palm Springs, California. He was engaged briefly to Lucille Ball, who left him when she met Desi Arnaz. The couple later hired him to direct their 1956 film ''For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Miss Nobody (1926 Film)
''Miss Nobody'' is a 1926 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures and directed by Lambert Hillyer. The film is based on a short story by Tiffany Wells called "Shebo"; the likely feminine pronunciation of hobo. The stars of the film were Anna Q. Nilsson and Walter Pidgeon, then in a very early role in his career. The plot of this film bears a striking resemblance to ''Beggars of Life'', made two years later at Paramount. Synopsis The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a group of hobos traveling incognito cross country dressed as a man. Cast *Anna Q. Nilsson - Barbara Brown *Walter Pidgeon - Bravo *Louise Fazenda - Mazie Raleigh * Mitchell Lewis - Harmony * Clyde Cook - Bertie * Arthur Stone - Happy *Anders Randolf - J.B. Hardiman *Claire Du Brey - Ann Adams *Jed Prouty - The Farmer *Caroline Rankin - His Wife * George Nichols - The Sheriff *Elita Proctor Otis - Miriam Arnold (billed as Olet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Am The Law (1938 Film)
''I Am the Law'' (1938) is a crime drama directed by Alexander Hall and starring Edward G. Robinson. Plot New York City law professor John Lindsay is asked by Eugene Ferguson, a member of the governor's Civic Committee, to become a special prosecutor to fight racketeers and corruption in the city, but unknown to Lindsay, Ferguson is in association with the racketeers. Cast * Edward G. Robinson as John Lindsay * Barbara O'Neil as Jerry Lindsay * John Beal as Paul Ferguson * Wendy Barrie as Frances Ballou * Otto Kruger as Eugene Ferguson * Arthur Loft as Tom Ross * Marc Lawrence as Eddie Girard * Douglas Wood as D.A. Bert Beery * Robert Middlemass as Moss Kithell * Ivan Miller as Inspector Gleason * Charles Halton as George Leander * Louis Jean Heydt as J.W Butler * Fay Helm as Mrs. Butler * Emory Parnell Emory Parnell (December 29, 1892 – June 22, 1979) was an American vaudeville performer and actor who appeared in over 250 films in his 36-year career. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
There's Always A Woman
''There's Always a Woman'' is a 1938 American comedy mystery film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Joan Blondell and Melvyn Douglas. Seeing the potential for a series, Columbia Pictures quickly made a sequel, ''There's That Woman Again'', released the same year, with Douglas reprising his role, but with Virginia Bruce as Sally. No further sequels were made. Plot Bill Reardon's (Melvyn Douglas) private detective agency is not making any money, so he decides to swallow his pride and return to work for the district attorney as a special investigator. His wife Sally (Joan Blondell), who persuaded him to start his own business, decides to keep the agency going herself. Sally is quickly hired by Lola Fraser (Mary Astor) to investigate Anne Calhoun (Frances Drake), a former girlfriend of Lola's husband Walter (Lester Matthews) who has been in contact with him. At a nightclub owned by Nick Shane (Jerome Cowan), pretending to be out with Bill for pleasure rather than business, Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goin' To Town
''Goin' To Town'' is a 1935 musical comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and written by Mae West. The film stars Mae West, Paul Cavanagh, Gilbert Emery, Marjorie Gateson, Tito Coral and Ivan Lebedeff. The film was released on April 25, 1935, by Paramount Pictures. the film stars West as Lady Lou, a wealthy and flamboyant woman who travels to Texas to claim an inheritance and becomes embroiled in a series of comical misunderstandings and romantic entanglements. West was already a well-known actress, singer, and playwright when Goin' To Town was released, and her bold, controversial performances and bawdy, irreverent humor had made her a popular figure in Hollywood's pre-Code era. In Goin' To Town, she brings all of these qualities to the role of Lady Lou, delivering a memorable and entertaining performance that has helped to make the film a classic of its time. The film was a box office success upon its release and received generally positive reviews from critics, who praise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pursuit Of Happiness (1934 Film)
''The Pursuit of Happiness'' is a 1934 American historical comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and written by Stephen Morehouse Avery, J.P. McEvoy and Virginia Van Upp. The film stars Francis Lederer, Joan Bennett, Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, Walter Kingsford, Minor Watson and Adrian Morris. The film was released on September 28, 1934, by Paramount Pictures. Synopsis A Hessian soldier serving with British forces during the American Revolutionary War deserts and tries to settle down in Connecticut with a local woman he has met. Cast *Francis Lederer as Max Christmann *Joan Bennett as Prudence Kirkland *Charlie Ruggles as Aaron Kirkland *Mary Boland as Comfort Kirkland *Walter Kingsford as Rev. Lyman Banks * Minor Watson as Col. Sherwood * Adrian Morris as Thad Jennings * Barbara Barondess as Meg Mallory *Duke York as Jonathan *Burr Caruth as Rev. Myles *Jules Cowles as The Drunk * Irving Bacon as Bijah *Spencer Charters as Sam Evans *Holmes Herbert as Gen. Sir Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
''Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen'' is a 1934 pre-Code American comedy-drama film, starring Dorothea Wieck, Alice Brady, and Baby LeRoy, written by Adela Rogers St. Johns and Jane Storm from a novel and story by Rupert Hughes, and directed by Alexander Hall. The events depicted in the film were allegedly based on the Lindbergh kidnapping. Plot summary Despite the dramatic story elements of child kidnapping, the overall tone of the film mixes comedy and drama. Madeline Fane (Wieck) is a busy and successful actress who is fiercely devoted to her two-year-old son. One day, little Michael disappears from his crib. Miss Fane avoids speaking to the police at first, then calls upon both law enforcement and her legions of fans for help. One of them, impoverished Molly Prentiss (Brady) who is also a single mother and who receives a signed photo of her idol at the beginning of the film after watching Fane finish a take with her leading man, comes to the rescue. Cast * Dorothea Wieck as Miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Miss Marker
''Little Miss Marker'' (also known as ''The Girl in Pawn'') is an American Pre-Code 1934 comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Hall. It was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Lehman after a 1932 short story of the same name by Damon Runyon. It stars Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou and Dorothy Dell in a story about a young girl held as collateral by gangsters. It was Temple's first starring role in a major motion picture and was crucial to establishing her as a major film star. It was named to the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1998 and has been remade several times. Plot The film tells the story of "Marky" (Shirley Temple), whose father gives her to a gangster-run gambling operation as a "marker" (collateral) for a bet. When he loses his bet and commits suicide, the gangsters are left with her on their hands. They decide to keep her temporarily and use her to help pull off one of their fixed races, naming her the owner of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limehouse Blues (film)
''Limehouse Blues'' (also known as ''East End Chant'') is a 1934 American crime film, directed by Alexander Hall. The film is set in the Limehouse district in the East End of London and its Chinatown, London, Chinatown. Among the stars of the film were George Raft and Anna May Wong. The film is named after the song "Limehouse Blues (song), Limehouse Blues". It is also known as East End Chant. Plot The film starts in a riverfront slum in Limehouse. ''The Lily Gardens'', a local club, is owned by Chinese Americans, Chinese-American immigrant Harry Young. Young uses the club as a center of operations for his lucrative smuggling operation. Young is a recent arrival in London, but he has managed to take over crime operations in his area. Rival criminal Pug Talbot is increasingly driven out of business. Talbot is enraged over the situation, and his anger causes him to abuse his own daughter, Toni. The girl has been raised to be a Pickpocketing, pickpocket and is under her father's con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torch Singer
A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love, either where one party is oblivious to the existence of the other, where one party has moved on, or where a romantic affair has affected the relationship.Allan Forte, M. R.: ''Listening to Classic American Popular Songs,'' p. 203. Yale University Press, 2001. The term comes from the saying, " to carry a torch for someone", or to keep aflame the light of an unrequited love. It was first used by the cabaret singer Tommy Lyman in his praise of "My Melancholy Baby". The term is also explicitly cited in the song "Jim", popularized by versions by Dinah Shore, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald: Torch-singing is more of a niche than a genre and can stray from the traditional jazz-influenced style of singing; the American tradition of the torch song typically relies upon the melodic structure of the blues. An example of a collection is Billie Holiday's 1955 al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl In 419
''The Girl in 419'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Hall and George Somnes and written by Allen Rivkin, Manuel Seff and P.J. Wolfson. The film stars James Dunn, Gloria Stuart, David Manners, William Harrigan, Shirley Grey and Jack La Rue. The film was released on May 26, 1933, by Paramount Pictures. Cast * James Dunn as Dr. Daniel French *Gloria Stuart as Mary Dolan *David Manners as Dr. Martin Nichols *William Harrigan as Peter Lawton *Shirley Grey as Nurse Irene Blaine *Jack La Rue as Sammy *Johnny Hines as Slug *Vince Barnett as Otto Hoffer *Kitty Kelly as Kitty *Edward Gargan as Lt. 'Babs' Riley * James Burke as Detective Jackson * Clarence Wilson as Walter C. Horton *Gertrude Short as Lucy *Effie Ellsler as Mrs. Young *Hal Price Harry Franklin "Hal" Price (June 24, 1886 – April 15, 1964) was an American film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1930 and 1952. He is the father of character actress and comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Racketeer
''Madame Racketeer'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film featuring Alison Skipworth, Richard Bennett and George Raft. The movie was directed by Harry Wagstaff Gribble and Alexander Hall.Everett Aaker, ''The Films of George Raft'', McFarland & Company, 2013 p 28 It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Plot Cast * Alison Skipworth as Countess/Martha Hicks * Richard Bennett as Elmer Hicks * George Raft as Jack Houston * John Breeden as David Butterworth * Evalyn Knapp as Alice Hicks * Gertrude Messinger as Patsy Hicks * Robert McWade as James Butterworth * J. Farrell MacDonald as John Adams * Jessie Arnold as Frankie * Anna Chandler as Stella * Oscar Apfel as J. Harrington Hagneya * Arthur Hoyt as Shiffem * Irving Bacon as Gus, Desk Clerk * George Barbier as Warden George Waddell * Frank Beal as Appleby, Bank Director * Robert Homans as Chief of Police * Winter Hall as Minister * Ed Brady Ed John Brady (born June 17, 1962) is a former Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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