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Beatrice Roberts
Alice Beatrice Roberts (March 7, 1905 – July 24, 1970) was an American film actress. Early years Roberts was born on March 7, 1905, in New York City. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Colin M. Roberts, and she attended Winthrop High School. She entered several beauty pageants, including the 1924 and 1925 Miss America pageants in Atlantic City, New Jersey (as Miss Manhattan, 1924, and Miss Greater New York, 1925). She won the "Most Beautiful Girl in Evening Gown" award each time. In 1916, Roberts was selected as the most beautiful girl at an annual Movie Ball contest in Boston. Career Roberts went to Hollywood in 1933 and between then and 1946, she appeared in nearly 60 films, including the 1937 drama ''Love Takes Flight'', in which she starred opposite Bruce Cabot. Many of her roles were small and uncredited. Her most notable role was that of Queen Azura in ''Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars'', a 1938 serial. Her last movie contract was with Universal, and her final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Avenue Logger
''Park Avenue Logger'' is a 1937 American lumberjack Western film directed by David Howard. The film is also known as ''Millionaire Playboy'' in the United Kingdom and ''Tall Timber'' (American reissue title). It is based on the short story of the same name by Bruce Hutchison that appeared in the 30 November 1935 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Plot Mike Curran believes his son Grant is an effete aesthete and decides to toughen him up by sending him under a false name to work at one of Mike's logging camps. Unknown to the elder Curren, his son spends his evenings as a masked wrestler; Grant believes his family would be embarrassed if they knew the truth. Also unknown to Mike Curran is the fact that his friend and logging camp boss Ben Morton and his stooge Paul Sangar are embezzling money from the Curren owned camp and are trying to force Peggy O'Shea's rival logging camp out of business by deadly acts of sabotage. The pair send Grant to work at Peggy's camp with a gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilgrimage (1933 Film)
''Pilgrimage'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by John Ford. The film was a box office disappointment for Fox. Cast * Henrietta Crosman as Mrs. Hannah Jessop * Heather Angel as Suzanne * Norman Foster as Jim 'Jimmy' Jessop (Hannah's son) * Lucille La Verne as Mrs. Kelly Hatfield * Maurice Murphy as Gary Worth * Marian Nixon as Mary Saunders * Jay Ward as Jimmy Saunders (Mary and Jimmy Hessop's son) * Robert Warwick as Major Albertson * Louise Carter as Mrs. Rogers * Betty Blythe as Janet Prescot * Francis Ford as Mayor Elmer Briggs * Charley Grapewin as Dad Saunders * Hedda Hopper Hedda Hopper (born Elda Furry; May 2, 1885February 1, 1966) was an American gossip columnist and actress. At the height of her influence in the 1940s, her readership was 35 million. A strong supporter of the House Un-American Activities Committ ... as Mrs. Worth (Gary Worth's mother) * Frances Rich as The Nurse * Shirley Palmer as Nurse References External links * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Went To College
''We Went to College'' is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Joseph Santley, written by Richard Maibaum and Maurice Rapf, and starring Charles Butterworth (actor), Charles Butterworth, Walter Abel, Hugh Herbert, Una Merkel and Edith Atwater. It was released on June 19, 1936, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot Cast * Charles Butterworth (actor), Charles Butterworth as Glenn Harvey * Walter Abel as Phil Talbot * Hugh Herbert as Professor Standish * Una Merkel as Susan Standish * Edith Atwater as Nina * Walter Catlett as Senator Budger * Charles Trowbridge as President Tomlin * Tom Ricketts as 'Pop' References External links * * 1936 films 1936 comedy films American black-and-white films American comedy films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Joseph Santley Films produced by Harry Rapf Films set in universities and colleges Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum 1930s American films {{1930s-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wife Vs
A wife ( : wives) is a female in a marital relationship. A woman who has separated from her partner continues to be a wife until the marriage is legally dissolved with a divorce judgement. On the death of her partner, a wife is referred to as a widow. The rights and obligations of a wife in relation to her partner and her status in the community and in law vary between cultures and have varied over time. Etymology The word is of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *''wībam'', "woman". In Middle English it had the form ''wif'', and in Old English ''wīf'', "woman or wife". It is related to Modern German ''Weib'' (woman, female), and Danish ''viv'' (wife, usually poetic); The original meaning of the phrase "wife" as simply "woman", unconnected with marriage or a husband/wife, is preserved in words such as "midwife", "goodwife", "fishwife" and " spaewife". Summary In many cultures, marriage is generally expected that a woman will take her husband's surname, though that is not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Melody Of 1936
''Broadway Melody of 1936'' is a musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935. In New York, the film opened at the Capitol Theatre, the site of many prestigious MGM premieres. In New York, the film opened at the Capitol Theatre, the site of many prestigious MGM premieres. It was a follow-up of sorts to the successful ''The Broadway Melody'', which had been released in 1929, although, there is no story connection with the earlier film beyond the title and some music. The film was written by Harry W. Conn, Moss Hart, Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers. It was directed by Roy Del Ruth and starred Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, June Knight, Frances Langford, Sid Silvers, Buddy Ebsen and Vilma Ebsen (in their film debut). It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Plot Irene Foster (Eleanor Powell) tries to convince her high school sweetheart, Broadway producer Robert Gordon ( Robert Taylor), to give her a chance to star in his new musical, but he is to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Seas (film)
''China Seas'' is a 1935 American adventure film starring Clark Gable as a brave sea captain, Jean Harlow as his brassy paramour, and Wallace Beery as a suspect character. The oceangoing epic also features Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, Akim Tamiroff, and Hattie McDaniel, while humorist Robert Benchley memorably portrays a character reeling drunk from one end of the film to the other. The lavish MGM epic was written by James Kevin McGuinness and Jules Furthman from the 1930 book by Crosbie Garstin, and directed by Tay Garnett. This is one of only four sound films with Beery in which he did not receive top billing. Plot Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) is an abrasive, gambling, captain of a tramp steamer, the "Kin Lung," chugging between Singapore and Hong Kong. Tensions are high before the Kin Lung sails from Hong Kong because pirates are discovered disguised as women passengers while others try to smuggle weapons aboard. Dolly Portland (Jean Harlow) is Alan's former girlfriend, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Point Of The Air
''West Point of the Air'' is a 1935 American drama (film and television), drama film directed by Richard Rosson (filmmaker), Richard Rosson and starring Wallace Beery, Robert Young (actor), Robert Young, Lewis Stone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Rosalind Russell, and Robert Taylor (American actor), Robert Taylor. The screenplay concerns pilot training in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the early 1930s.Nixon, Rob"Articles: West Point of the Air".''Turner Classic Movies.'' Retrieved: August 12, 2013. Plot At Randolph Field, Texas, Master Sergeant "Big Mike" Stone (Wallace Beery) has aspirations for his son, "Little Mike" (Robert Young) to follow in his footsteps as an aviator. Following graduation from West Point, Little Mike, along with his best friend, Phil Carter (Russell Hardie), enter pilot training at Randolph Field, commanded by Phil's father, General Carter (Lewis Stone), but complications soon arise. Little Mike has a childhood sweetheart, Phil's sister, "Skip" (Maureen O'Sullivan) but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Times Square Lady
''Times Square Lady'' is a 1935 American crime drama film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Robert Taylor, Virginia Bruce and Helen Twelvetrees.Quirk p.36 It was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Synopsis Toni Bradley comes to New York from Iowa to take over her late father's business, most of which involved gambling. Her father's former associates plan to take the business away from her but with the help of one of them, Steve Gordon who changes sides and a songwriter Pinky Tomlin, she manages to fight back. Reception According to MGM records the film earned $310,000 in the US and Canada and $114,000 elsewhere, making a profit of $131,000. Cast * Robert Taylor as Steve Gordon * Virginia Bruce as Toni Bradley * Pinky Tomlin as Pinky Tomlin of Durant Oklahoma * Helen Twelvetrees as Margo Heath * Isabel Jewell as 'Babe' * Nat Pendleton as Mack * Jack La Rue as Jack Kramer * Henry Kolker as Mr. Fielding * Raymond Hatton as 'Slim' Kennedy * Russell Hopto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naughty Marietta (film)
''Naughty Marietta'' is a 1935 American musical romance film based on the 1910 operetta of the same name by Victor Herbert. Jeanette MacDonald stars as a princess who flees an arranged marriage. She sails for New Orleans and is rescued from pirates by Captain Richard Warrington (Nelson Eddy). Five of Herbert's most famous songs come from the score of ''Naughty Marietta'', with words by lyricist Rida Johnson Young: "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", " Italian Street Song", "Neath the Southern Moon", "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" and "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (Along the Highway)". Additional lyrics for several of Herbert's songs were penned for the film by Gus Kahn. The film was written by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, John Lee Mahin and Rida Johnson Young. Plot To avoid an arranged marriage to Don Carlos, an elderly Spanish duke, Princess Marie masquerades as her uncle's former servant, Marietta, and escapes from France on a ship with casquette girls who are traveling to New Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Life Of The Gods
''Night Life of the Gods'' (also known as ''Thorne Smith's Night Life of the Gods'') is a 1935 American fantasy film released by Universal Pictures. Based on a 1931 novel by Thorne Smith, the film was directed by Lowell Sherman and starred Alan Mowbray as a scientist who devises a ray that can turn people to stone and bring statues to life. For many years believed to be a lost film, a 35mm print surfaced in the 1980s in a donation to the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Synopsis Eccentric scientist Hunter Hawk (Alan Mowbray) nearly blows himself up during an experiment. When he comes to, he finds that he is successful at last: he has created a ring that can turn living creatures into statues as well as bring statues to life. After testing the device on his dog, he makes statues of his disagreeable family; only his favorite niece, Daphne (Peggy Shannon), is spared. Hawk and Daphne celebrate the petrification of their relatives with a bottle of wine after which Daphne goes off to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Captain Hates The Sea
''The Captain Hates the Sea'' is a 1934 comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and released by Columbia Pictures. The film, which involves a ''Grand Hotel''-style series of intertwining stories involving the passengers on a cruise ship, is notable as the last feature film of silent film icon John Gilbert and the first Columbia feature to include The Three Stooges (Curly Howard, Moe Howard and Larry Fine) in the cast, cast as the ship's orchestra. The film also stars Victor McLaglen, Arthur Treacher, Akim Tamiroff, Leon Errol and Walter Connolly. Plot Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the ship ''San Capador'' for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be. Cast * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Return Of Chandu
''The Return of Chandu'' is a 1934 American 12-episode fantasy film serial based on the radio series '' Chandu the Magician''. It was produced by Sol Lesser and directed by Ray Taylor, and starred Béla Lugosi as Frank Chandler (aka Chandu the Magician). The serial was originally released to be booked by theaters in any one of three ways: as a conventional serial of twelve weekly chapters of equal running times; as a 60-minute feature film comprising the first four episodes, to be followed by the remaining 8 episodes in weekly serial format; or as a stand-alone feature comprising the first four chapters (the fourth episode ending not with a cliffhanger, but with an apparent resolution to the story). In 1935, the remaining 8 episodes of the serial were also edited into a second feature film, of 65 minute length, released as '' Chandu on the Magic Island''. This serial marked one of the few times that Lugosi played a protagonist rather than an antagonist: in fact, Lugosi had played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
