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Anne Howard (actress)
Anne Howard (March 18, 1925 – April 22, 1991), was an American actress. Early life On March 18, 1925, Howard was born in Chicago, Illinois. Career In 1929, Howard's film career started as a child actress. Her work included portraying Estella in ''Great Expectations (1934 film)'' (1934), a role for which she was chosen because she resembled Jane Wyatt, who portrayed the adult Estella. Howard retired from acting in 1966, then became active in civic affairs. Howard's last film was Prince of Darkness (1987). Personal life Howard's husband was Leonard Caulfield. Howard's daughter is Vicki Caulfied. In 1980, Howard's husband died. Howard's daughter Vicki married Lewis Snow. On April 22, 1991, Howard died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Los Angeles, California. Howard was 66. Filmography *1932: ''The Hatchet Man'' as Young girl (uncredited) *1934: ''Jane Eyre'' as Georgianna Reed (uncredited) *1934: ''She Was a Lady'' as Iris Vane *1934: ''Great Expectations'' as Estella, as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area_tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Adverse
''Anthony Adverse'' is a 1936 American epic historical drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney draws elements of its plot from eight of the nine books in Hervey Allen's historical novel, ''Anthony Adverse.'' Abandoned at a convent as an infant, Anthony comes of age in the tumultuous turn of the 18th to the 19th century, the age of Napoleon. The audience is privy to many truths in Anthony's life, including the tragic story of his origins and the fact that the wealthy merchant who adopts him is his grandfather. Most important of all, Anthony believes that his beloved Angela abandoned him without a word, when in fact she left a note telling him that the theatrical troupe was going to Rome. The gust of wind that blows the note away is one of many fateful and fatal events in Anthony's story. The film received four Academy Awards, including the inaugural Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Company She Keeps
''The Company She Keeps'' is a 1951 drama film starring Lizabeth Scott, Jane Greer and Dennis O'Keefe. The film was directed by John Cromwell, whose film the previous year, ''Caged'', also concerned a woman sent to prison. It marked Jeff Bridges' film debut. Plot Released from prison after serving two years on a check-forging charge, Mildred Lynch changes her name to Diane Stuart and moves to Los Angeles. Parole officer Joan Willburn finds her a job at a hospital. Diane repays her by stealing Joan's boyfriend, Larry Collins, after he comes to the hospital to visit a patient. Diane hides the relationship from Joan and hides her past from Larry. Once she finally finds out, Joan graciously accepts the new relationship but warns Diane that to get married, she must first seek approval from the parole board, which will be under a legal obligation to contact Larry. Despite all the help Joan has been, Diane accuses her of trying to sabotage her romance and also her parole, afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Comes Too Soon
''Night Comes Too Soon'' is a 1948 British horror film directed by Denis Kavanagh and starring Valentine Dyall, Anne Howard and Alec Faversham. It was based on the story ''The Haunters and the Haunted'' by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It was released in the United States under the alternative title of ''The Ghost of Rashmon Hall''. The film was made as a second feature for release on the lower half of a double bill. It was shot at a manor house near Mill Hill, part of a trend of renting country houses rather than studio space by low-budget producers after the Second World War.Chibnall & McFarlane p.118 Cast * Valentine Dyall as Dr. George Clinton * Anne Howard as Phyllis * Alec Faversham as John * Howard Douglas * Beatrice Marsden as Mrs. Paxton * Arthur Brander * Anthony Baird as Lionel Waddell * Frank Dunlop * David Keir as The Realtor * Monti DeLyle as Ghost of Rinaldo Sabata * Nina Erber as Ghost of Marianna Sabata * John Desmond John Jacob Desmond (April 5, 1922 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beginning Or The End
''The Beginning or the End'' is a 1947 American docudrama film about the development of the atomic bomb in World War II, directed by Norman Taurog, starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, and Tom Drake, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film dramatizes the creation of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project and the bombing of Hiroshima. The film originated in October 1945 as a project of actress Donna Reed and her high school science teacher, Edward R. Tompkins, who was a chemist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Bob Considine wrote the treatment, which was sent to MGM scriptwriters. The title was supplied by President Harry S. Truman. At the time there was a legal requirement that permission be obtained to depict living well-known public figures. Many refused, but others, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, co-operated. Major General Leslie R. Groves, Jr., the director of the Manhattan Project, was hired as a consultant for $10,000 (). Although the filmmakers put con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomorrow Is Forever
''Tomorrow Is Forever'' is a 1946 black-and-white romance film directed by Irving Pichel, and starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles and George Brent. It was also the film debut of Richard Long (actor), Richard Long and Natalie Wood. It was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and was based upon the 1943 serialized novel of the same name by Gwen Bristow. Plot Elizabeth (Colbert) and John (Welles) are a married couple, recently separated when John goes off to fight in World War I. When Elizabeth receives notice of John's death just before Christmas 1918, she reluctantly marries Lawrence Hamilton (Brent). Elizabeth tells Hamilton that she could never love him the way she loves John, but the two marry and decide to raise the child she is carrying from John as their own. John, however, is still alive, but after being disfigured in the war he has undergone plastic surgery, making him almost unrecognizable. He is nursed back to health by Dr. Ludwig. Twenty years later, he returns t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitty (1945 Film)
''Kitty'' is a 1945 film, a costume drama set in London during the 1780s, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the novel of the same name by Rosamond Marshall (published in 1943), with a screenplay by Karl Tunberg. It stars Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Constance Collier, Patric Knowles, Reginald Owen, and Cecil Kellaway as the English painter Thomas Gainsborough. In a broad interpretation of George Bernard Shaw's '' Pygmalion'', the film tells the rags-to-riches story of a beautiful young cockney guttersnipe who is given a complete makeover by an impoverished aristocrat (Milland) and his aunt (Collier) in hopes of arranging her marriage to a peer, thereby repairing their fortunes and their social status. Plot In 1783 London, a poor thief, Kitty, is caught picking the pocket of painter Thomas Gainsborough. Amused, he pays her to sit for a portrait. While posing, she attracts the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who offers her a job as a scullery maid and (later) his aunt's ward. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Highness And The Bellboy
''Her Highness and the Bellboy'' is a 1945 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, and June Allyson. Written by Richard Connell and Gladys Lehman, the film is about a beautiful European princess who travels to New York City to find the newspaper columnist she fell in love with six years earlier. At her posh New York hotel, she is mistaken for a maid by a kind-hearted bellboy. Charmed by his confusion, the princess insists that he become her personal attendant, unaware that he has fallen in love with her. ''Her Highness and the Bellboy'' was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the United States on July 11, 1945. Plot The beautiful Princess Veronica (Hedy Lamarr) travels to New York City to find the American newspaper columnist she fell in love with six years earlier. After checking into the elegant Eaton Hotel, she is mistaken for a new maid by bellboy Jimmy Dobson ( Robert Walker), who offers to accompany her on an afternoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From Down Under
''The Man from Down Under'' is an American 1943 drama film starring Charles Laughton as a man who raises two war orphans. It was called "Hollywood's first full-length film dealing exclusively with Australia and Australians". Plot After the end of World War I, Australian soldier Jocko Wilson (Charles Laughton) admires the spirit of a destitute Belgian orphan who fights a larger boy. He feeds the child, whom he names "Nipper", and the boy's younger sister Mary. When he receives orders to go home, he gets his friend Ginger Gaffney ( Clyde Cook) to smuggle the pair aboard their ship. Then, realizing he knows nothing about raising children, he proposes to his singer girlfriend Aggie Dawlins ( Binnie Barnes). She accepts. However, he gets drunk and is nearly arrested; in the confusion, he forgets and sails home without her. An ex-boxer, Jocko buys a tavern and trains the boy to fight, while Mary is sent off to a boarding school. The adult Nipper ( Richard Carlson) gets to fight the bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Men (1940 Film)
''Little Men'' (1940) is an American film based on the novel '' Little Men'' (1871) by Louisa May Alcott. Norman Z. McLeod directed the film. It is the second sequel to Little Women (1933 film) after Little Men (1934 film) Plot Jo March ( Kay Francis), the lead character in Alcott's novel ''Little Women'', now runs a private school for young boys. Cast * Kay Francis as Jo March * Jack Oakie as Willie the Fox * George Bancroft as Major Burdle * Jimmy Lydon as Dan * Ann Gillis as Nan * Carl Esmond as Professor Bhaer * Richard Nichols as Teddy * Francesca Santoro as Bess * Lillian Randolph as Asia * Johnny Burke as Silas * Sammy McKim as Tommy * Edward Rice as Demi * Anne Howard as Daisy * Jimmy Zahner as Jack * Bobby Cooper as Adolphus * Schuyler Standish as Nat * Paul Matthews as Stuffy * Tony Neil as Ned * Fred Estes as Emmett * Douglas Rucker as Billy * Donald Rackerby as Frank * William Demarest as Constable Tom Thorpe * Sterling Holloway as Reporter * Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All This, And Heaven Too
''All This, and Heaven Too'' is a 1940 American drama film made by Warner Bros.-First National Pictures, produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. The screenplay was adapted by Casey Robinson from the 1938 novel by Rachel Field. The music was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Ernie Haller. The film stars Bette Davis and Charles Boyer with Barbara O'Neil, Jeffrey Lynn, Virginia Weidler, Helen Westley, Walter Hampden, Henry Daniell, Harry Davenport, George Coulouris, Montagu Love, Janet Beecher and June Lockhart. Rachel Field's novel is based on the true story of Field's great-aunt, Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, a French governess who fell in love with the Duc de Praslin, her employer. When Praslin's wife was murdered, Henriette was implicated. It was a real-life scandal that contributed to the political turmoil before the French Revolution of 1848 which deposed France's Louis Philippe I. Plot Mademoiselle Henriette Deluzy-Desporte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Is On The Air
''Love is on the Air'' is a 1937 American film directed by Nick Grinde, and starring Ronald Reagan (in his film debut), June Travis, Eddie Acuff, Robert Barrat, Raymond Hatton and Willard Parker. It was the first of three remakes of the 1933 Paul Muni picture ''Hi, Nellie''. (The later ones were ''You Can't Escape Forever'' (1942), with George Brent, and ''House Across the Street'' (1949), with Wayne Morris.) It was ironic that, in his first movie, Reagan starred as a radio announcer, as he had just moved from Des Moines Iowa where for almost 5 years after graduating college, as a sports radio announcer he broadcast games for the Chicago Cubs, Big Ten football games and title fights from a play-by-play telegraph wire. Plot summary Reckless radio commentator Andy McCaine (Ronald Reagan) gets into trouble when he attacks a corrupt city government, and his boss forces him to host an innocuous kiddie program. Cast * Ronald Reagan as Andy McCaine * June Travis as Jo Hopkins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
