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Archie Twitchell
Archie Raymond Twitchell (November 28, 1906 – January 31, 1957) was a pilot for over three decades between the 1920s and the 1950s. He also had a second profession as a movie actor. He was a captain in the US Army Air Force. He was killed in the 1957 Pacoima mid-air collision. Background Twitchell was born in Pendleton, Oregon on November 28, 1906. He made his first solo flight in 1923. Two years later, he began an acting career that took him through over 100 movies and television shows. His six-foot, one-inch stature with his grey eyes and brown hair suited the camera. He was sometimes billed as Michael Brandan/Brandon/Branden. Between pictures he flew. In 1936 he toured air shows across the country and in 1942 was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Force. During the war he tested fighter planes in North Africa and flew transports. In 1951 he went to Israel and tested planes for the Israeli air force. Since February 1955 he had been a production test pilot for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Missing Corpse
''The Missing Corpse'' is a 1945 American comedy mystery film directed by Albert Herman. Plot summary The publisher of The Tribune newspaper, Henry Kruger, who is used to ordering his staff around, finds that he is ignored by everyone in his own home. He is shocked when he discovers a scandalous picture of his own daughter, Phyllis, on the front page of the competing paper, The Daily Argus. Henry pays a visit to the dubious publisher of the competing paper, Andy McDonald, and warns him not to ever publish a picture like that again, or Henry will kill him. Henry is unaware of the fact that a man named "Slippery" Joe Clary has overheard his conversation with Andy, which Joe later reveals to him, threatening to expose him. Henry counters by claiming that Andy was the one who got Joe sentenced with his testimony, and that Andy dated Joe's girlfriend while he was in prison. To avoid further complications, Henry takes a long vacation, following the suggestion of his chauffeur. While H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacoima Middle School
Pacoima (Tongva: ''Pacoinga'') is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. Pacoima is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the San Fernando Valley region of LA. Geography Location Pacoima is bordered by the Los Angeles districts of Mission Hills on the west, Arleta on the south, Sun Valley on the southeast, Lake View Terrace on the northeast, and by the city of San Fernando, California, San Fernando on the north. It covers an area of . Landscape Ed Meagher of the ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote in 1955 that the 110-block area on the north side of San Fernando Road in Pacoima consisted of what he described as a "smear of sagging, leaning shacks and backhouses framed by disintegrating fences and clutter of tin cans, old lumber, stripped automobiles, bottles, rusted water heaters and other bric-a-brac of the back alleys."Meagher, Ed.Pacoima Area Revamped by Awakened Citizenry" ''Los Angeles Times''. May 18, 1955. A1. Two Pages Local News. Retrieved on March 18, 2010. In 1955 Pacoima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Jungle Love
''Her Jungle Love'' is a 1938 American south seas adventure film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland. Portions of the film were shot at Palm Springs, California.here for Table of Contents Plot Two pilots ( Ray Milland, Lynne Overman) on a rescue mission meet a white jungle girl (Dorothy Lamour) in the South Seas. Cast * Dorothy Lamour as Tura * Ray Milland as Bob Mitchell * Lynne Overman as Jimmy Wallace * J. Carrol Naish as Kuasa * Virginia Vale as Eleanor Martin (as Dorothy Howe) * Jonathan Hale as J.C. Martin * Archie Twitchell as Roy Atkins * Jiggs (chimpanzee) Jiggs (''c.'' 1929 – February 28, 1938) was a male chimpanzee and animal actor who originated the character of Cheeta in the 1930s Hollywood Tarzan movies. He was owned and trained by Tony and Jacqueline Gentry.Kingsley, Grace. "Hobnobbing in H ... as Gaga References External links * * * 1938 films 1930s color films 1938 adventure films American adventur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scandal Street (1938 Film)
''Scandal Street'' is a 1938 American drama film directed by James P. Hogan and written by Bertram Millhauser and Eddie Welch. The film stars Lew Ayres, Louise Campbell, Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Edgar Kennedy and Elizabeth Patterson. The film was released on February 11, 1938, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Cast Reception Frank Nugent of ''The 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 readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...'' said, "The fictional half of the Criterion's bill is filled by a well-wrought B-plus melodrama from Paramount, an entertaining tidbit called ''Scandal Street'', which considers, for the 'steenth time, the cruelty, malice and stupidity of small-town gossips. Here it is Louise Campbell who suffers the tongue-lashing and the guilty-until-proved-innocent attitude of Pea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Broadcast Of 1938
''The Big Broadcast of 1938'' is a Paramount Pictures musical comedy film starring W. C. Fields and featuring Bob Hope. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, the film is the last in a series of ''Big Broadcast'' movies that were variety show anthologies. This film featured the debut of Hope's signature song, "Thanks for the Memory" by Ralph Rainger. Plot In what is being billed as "The Race of the Ages," the new forty-million-dollar “radio powered” Streamlined Ocean Liner S.S. ''Gigantic'' (“America’s Challenge for Crossing Record”) is about to race its rival, the slightly smaller S.S. ''Colossal'' across the Atlantic from New York’s Pier 97 to Cherbourg in two-and-a-half days. ''Gigantic'' owner T. Frothingill “T.F.” Bellows (W. C. Fields) intends to send his nearly identical younger brother S.B. (also Fields) to sail aboard the ''Colossal'', hoping he will cause trouble and sabotage the rival ship, enabling the ''Gigantic'' and his own Bellows Line to win. However S.B., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Buccaneer (1938 Film)
''The Buccaneer'' is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures starring Fredric March and based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. The picture was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb, Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie MacPherson from the 1930 novel ''Lafitte the Pirate'' by Lyle Saxon. The music score was by George Antheil and the cinematography by Victor Milner. The film stars Fredric March as Lafitte, Franciska Gaal and Akim Tamiroff with Margot Grahame, Walter Brennan, Ian Keith, Spring Byington, Douglass Dumbrille, Beulah Bondi and Anthony Quinn in supporting roles. It is one of the few pre-1950 sound films by Paramount to remain under that studio's ownership (partly so the remake could be filmed), whereas most films from that era had been sold to EMKA, Ltd. (now part of NBCUniversal Television Distribution) in the early television era. Cecil B. DeMille remade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wells Fargo (film)
''Wells Fargo'' is a 1937 American Western film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Joel McCrea, Bob Burns and Frances Dee. Plot In the early 1840s, Wells & Fargo employee Ramsay MacKay comes upon a broken-down carriage in the countryside and gives belle Justine Pryor and her mother a lift into Buffalo, New York, though he warns them he is in a hurry to make a delivery of fresh oysters. The ladies endure a very bumpy ride, and he arrives in time to enable his employer, Henry Wells, to impress some bankers with the speed of his service. Wells sends him to set up a branch office in St. Louis, which is quite convenient, as the Pryors reside there. MacKay and Justine begin seeing each other, though her mother disapproves, as does Justine's more socially prominent suitor, Talbot Carter. Impressed with MacKay, in 1846, Wells sends him to open trails to California. MacKay takes along Hank York, a frontiersman who only works when he has to, and Hank's constant Indian companion, Pawn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daughter Of Shanghai
''Daughter of Shanghai'' is a 1937 American crime film directed by Robert Florey and starring Anna May Wong. Unusually for the time, East Asian American actors played the lead roles. It was also one of the first films in which Anthony Quinn appeared. In 2006, ''Daughter of Shanghai'' was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures to be added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Plot Lan Ying Lin and government agent Kim Lee battle alien smugglers. Cast * Anna May Wong as Lan Ying Lin * Charles Bickford as Otto Hartman * Buster Crabbe as Andrew Sleete (as Larry Crabbe) * Cecil Cunningham as Mrs. Mary Hunt * J. Carrol Naish as Frank Barden * Anthony Quinn as Harry Morgan * John Patterson as James Lang * Evelyn Brent as Olga Derey * Philip Ahn as Kim Lee * Fred Kohler as Captain Gulner * Guy Bates Post as Lloyd Burkett * Virginia Dabney as Rita - a Dancer Analysis ''Daughter of Shanghai'' is unique among 1930s Hollywood features for its portrayal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hold 'Em Navy
''That Navy Spirit'' is a 1937 American sports film directed by Kurt Neumann (director), Kurt Neumann and starring Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle and John Howard (American actor), John Howard.Quinlan p.274 It is also known by the alternative title ''Hold 'Em Navy''. It follows two members of the American football team at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis who compete over the same girl before the varsity game against West Point. Plot As first-year "plebes" at the Naval Academy, newcomers Tommy and Stuffy are subjected to rude treatment by the upperclassmen. After one of them, Chuck Baldwin, gives him a hard time, Tommy decides to invite Chuck's sweetheart Judy to a school ball. Tommy is also a talented football quarterback, but because Chuck informs on him being out after curfew, Tommy is suspended from the team and Navy loses the game. Judy is upset with Tommy, but a year later, when the situation is reversed and Chuck is caught out after dark, Tommy vouches for him. Chuck p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partners In Crime (1937 Film)
''Partners in Crime'' is a 1937 American crime film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Gladys Unger and Garnett Weston. The film stars Lynne Overman, Roscoe Karns, Muriel Hutchison, Anthony Quinn, Inez Courtney and Lucien Littlefield. The film was released on October 8, 1937, by Paramount Pictures. Karns and Overman repeated their private-eye characters from '' Murder Goes to College'', released earlier that year. Plot Cast *Lynne Overman as Hank Hyer *Roscoe Karns as Sim Perkins *Muriel Hutchison as Odette Le Vin *Anthony Quinn as Nicholas Mazaney *Inez Courtney as Lillian Tate *Lucien Littlefield as Mr. Twitchell *Charles Halton as Silas Wagon * Charles C. Wilson as Inspector Simpson * June Brewster as Mabel *Esther Howard as Mrs. Wagon *Nora Cecil as Housekeeper * Russell Hicks as Mayor Callahan *Don Brodie Don L. Brodie (May 29, 1904 – January 8, 2001) was an American film and television actor. Early years The son of Mrs. Lottie Brodie, he attended Hugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Way Please
''This Way Please'' is a 1937 American musical comedy directed by Robert Florey and featuring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, a popular singer from the days of vaudeville entertainment. According to historian Martin Grams, the film was the introduction of Mary Livingstone (Mrs. Jack Benny) and Jim and Marian Jordan (radio's Fibber McGee and Molly). It was also Betty Grable's first motion picture under contract with Paramount Studios. Plot Betty Grable plays young Jane Morrow, who applies for the job of a theater usherette, and encounters her matinée idol. After he takes a liking to her, he arranges for her to audition in front of an audience. Jane is a hit, making her idol less favorable. Jane soon finds herself engaged to another man, so a battle of romantic wits ensues. Cast * Charles "Buddy" Rogers as Brad Morgan * Betty Grable as Jane Morrow * Ned Sparks as Inky Wells * Jim Jordan as Fibber McGee * Marian Jordan as Molly McGee * Porter Hall as S.J. Crawford * Lee Bowman as Stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Lang Goes West
''Sophie Lang Goes West'' is a 1937 American crime film directed by Charles Reisner, written by Frederick Irving Anderson, Doris Anderson, Brian Marlow and Robert Wyler, and starring Gertrude Michael, Lee Bowman, Sandra Storme, Buster Crabbe, Barlowe Borland, C. Henry Gordon and Jed Prouty. It was released on September 10, 1937, by Paramount Pictures. ''Sophie Lang Goes West'' is the third and last film of the ''Sophie Lang'' series, after ''The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)'', and '' The Return of Sophie Lang (1936)''. Cast * Gertrude Michael as Sophie Lang *Lee Bowman as Eddie Rollyn * Sandra Storme as Helga Roma *Buster Crabbe as Steve Clayson *Barlowe Borland as Archie Banks * C. Henry Gordon as Sultan of Padaya *Jed Prouty as J.H. Blaine *Rafael Storm as Laj *Fred Miller as Policeman *Herbert Ransom as Policeman *Nick Lukats as Taxi Driver *Guy Usher as Police Inspector Parr *Archie Twitchell as Clerk *Robert Cummings as Curley Griffin * Ralph McCullough Ralph McCull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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