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Belle Mitchell
Belle Mitchell (September 24, 1889 – February 12, 1979) was an American stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1978. She was born in Croswell, Michigan and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. Partial filmography * ''His Regeneration'' (1915, Short) - The Saloon Girl (uncredited) * ''Humanity'' (1916) * ''By the Sad Sea Waves'' (1917, Short) - (uncredited) * ''Bliss'' (1917, Short) * '' Rainbow Island'' (1917, Short) * '' The Flirt'' (1917, Short) * '' All Aboard'' (1917, Short) * '' Move On'' (1917, Short) * '' Bashful'' (1917, Short) - (uncredited) * ''The Tip'' (1918, Short) * ''Beat It'' (1918, Short) * '' Kicked Out'' (1918, Short) * '' No Place Like Jail'' (1918, Short) * ''Just Rambling Along'' (1918, Short) * ''Kicking the Germ Out of Germany'' (1918, Short) * '' Nothing but Trouble'' (1918, Short) * '' Take a Chance'' (1918, Short) * ''Do You Love Your Wife?'' (1919) * ''Going! Going! Gone!'' (1919, Short) * '' Hustling for H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croswell, Michigan
Croswell is a city in Sanilac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,447 at the 2010 census. History The settlement, originally known as Black River, was established in 1845. Later it was known as Davisville, after the town's first postmaster. In 1877 it was renamed Croswell, in honor of Governor Charles Croswell. The town incorporated as a city in 1881. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. It is considered to be part of the Thumb of Michigan, which in turn is a subregion of the Flint/Tri-Cities. Croswell can also be considered as in the Blue Water Area, a subregion of the Thumb. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 2,447 people, 971 households, and 649 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 1,120 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 91.7% White, 0.5% African American, 0.7% Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take A Chance (1918 Film)
''Take a Chance'' is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Plot Harold becomes smitten with a hired girl (Bebe) who is washing a staircase. When Bebe's beau (Snub) arrives to drive her to a picnic, Harold stealthily sneaks into the back seat of Snub's car. Without their being aware of his presence, Harold causes them to get into a fight. When the car arrives at the picnic grounds, Harold and Bebe enter the park together and enjoy a frantic few moments on a seesaw. Two prison escapees enter the park. One clubs Harold over the head and dresses him in his prison garb to confuse the pursuing police force. Harold uses his wits and athletic ability to elude capture by many officers. Cast * Harold Lloyd * Snub Pollard * Bebe Daniels * William Blaisdell * Sammy Brooks * Harry Burns * Billy Fay * James A. Fitzgerald * William Gillespie * Lew Harvey * Wallace Howe * Bud Jamison * Dee Lampton * Belle Mitchell See also * Harold Lloyd filmography These are the known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rendezvous (1935 Film)
''Rendezvous'' is a 1935 American spy film set in World War I, directed by William K. Howard, starring William Powell and Rosalind Russell and featuring Binnie Barnes, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero and Samuel S. Hinds. Powell plays an American cryptologist who tangles with German spies while falling in love. The film's screenplay by P. J. Wolfson and George Oppenheimer was based on '' The Blonde Countess'', a 1933 novel by Herbert Yardley, founder and head of the Black Chamber, as adapted by Bella and Samuel Spewack. Plot In April 1917, former newspaperman William Gordon (William Powell) is commissioned in the U.S. Army. The day before he is to leave Washington, D.C. for France, he meets socialite Joel Carter (Rosalind Russell) at an embassy gathering. The couple spend the day together where Gordon confides that because he once wrote a book on cryptography under a pen name, the army is searching for him to put him to work behind a desk, but he is eager to get into the fighting. Jus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stamboul Quest
''Stamboul Quest'' is a 1934 American spy film set in World War I, directed by Sam Wood, starring Myrna Loy and George Brent and featuring Lionel Atwill. The screenplay was written by Herman J. Mankiewicz from a story by Leo Birinski. Plot In 1915 Berlin, the German high command is worried about ally Turkey. Recent British attacks on the vital Dardanelles show signs of inside knowledge. Von Sturm, the head of German intelligence, suspects Ali Bey, the Turkish commander of the region, is the traitor responsible. As his best agent has not been heard from in several weeks, von Sturm assigns Kruger the task. Shortly afterwards, Annemarie, known by the code name "Fräulein Doktor", returns after completing her mission. She also informs von Sturm that fellow spy Mata Hari has fallen in love with her assigned target and can no longer be trusted. She recommends that an incriminating message be sent using a code that she thinks Mata Hari has given to the Allies. She also suspects Kruger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viva Villa!
''Viva Villa!'' is a 1934 American pre-Code film directed by Jack Conway and starring Wallace Beery as Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The screenplay was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from the 1933 book ''Viva Villa!'' by Edgecumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade. The film was shot on location in Mexico and produced by David O. Selznick. There was uncredited assistance with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin McGuinness, and Howard Emmett Rogers. Hawks and William A. Wellman were also uncredited directors on the film. The film is a fictionalized biography of Pancho Villa starring Beery in the titular role and featuring Fay Wray, who had played the leading lady in ''King Kong'' the previous year. The supporting cast includes Leo Carillo, Donald Cook, Stuart Erwin, Henry B. Walthall, Joseph Schildkraut and Katherine DeMille. Plot After seeing his poor father lose his land and be whipped to death for protesting, young Pancho Villa stabs one of the killers, then heads off into th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Love That Man
''I Love That Man'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Harry Joe Brown and written by C. Graham Baker, Casey Robinson and Gene Towne. The film stars Edmund Lowe, Nancy Carroll, Robert Armstrong, Lew Cody, Warren Hymer, Grant Mitchell and Dorothy Burgess. The film was released on June 9, 1933, by Paramount Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director David S. Garber. Plot Cast *Edmund Lowe as Brains Stanley / Roger Winthrop *Nancy Carroll as Grace Clark * Robert Armstrong as Driller *Lew Cody as Labels Castell *Warren Hymer as Mousey * Grant Mitchell as Dr. Crittenden *Dorothy Burgess as Ethel * Walter Walker as Mr. Walker *Berton Churchill as Mordant *Susan Fleming as Miss Jones *Luis Alberni as Angelo *Lee Kohlmar as Old Man Cohen * Harvey Clark as Fred J. Harper *Belle Mitchell as Maria *Leon Holmes as Abe * Esther Muir as Babe * Patrick H. O'Malley, Jr. as Prison Interne *Lloyd Ingraham Lloyd Chauncey Ingraham (November 30, 187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symphony Of Six Million
''Symphony of Six Million'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Ricardo Cortez, Irene Dunne and Gregory Ratoff. Based on the story ''Night Bell'' by Fannie Hurst, the film concerns the rise of a Jewish physician from humble roots to the top of his profession and the social costs of losing his connection with his community, his family and with the craft of healing. Plot Felix '"Felixel" Klauber, a brilliant young man from a tight-knit Jewish family living in New York City's Lower East Side ghetto, becomes a physician, as he has wanted to do since childhood, eventually establishing himself as a Park Avenue doctor catering to the wealthy after working his way up from being a doctor at a Lower East Side clinic. He is spurred on in his ambitions by an older brother, who is materialistic and uses Felix's love for their mother to insist that Felix better his station in life for the benefit of his family. Felix's success causes him to become es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Romeos
''Flying Romeos'' is a 1928 American comedy adventure directed by Mervyn LeRoy and written by John McDermott, Sidney Lazarus, Gene Towne and John W. Conway.Erickson, Hal"Review: 'Flying Romeos' (1928) – Mervyn LeRoy."''AllMovie'', 2019. Retrieved: July 2, 2019. The film stars the comedy team of Charles Murray and George Sidney, stars of Universal's popular "The Cohens and Kellys" comedies, moonlighting at First National Pictures. Other sidekicks included Fritzi Ridgeway, Lester Bernard, Duke Martin, James Bradbury Jr. and Belle Mitchell. ''Flying Romeos'' was released on February 26, 1928, by First National Pictures, typically a B movie studio. Plot Barbers Cohen (George Sidney) and Cohan (Charles Murray) both love Minnie (Fritzi Ridgeway), their young manicurist, who has a fondness for aviators. Duly, the pair of hapless middle-aged lovers sign up for flying lessons and accidentally find themselves performing some wild stunts in an aircraft. The owner of the "Spirit of Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Eastern Westerner
''An Eastern Westerner'' is a 1920 American silent Western comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. A copy of the film exists. Plot The Boy is the hedonistic son of wealthy eastern parents. One night when he returns home at 2 a.m. from a night of carousing at a dance hall, The Boy's strait-laced father sends him packing to his uncle's ranch in a small western community called Piute Pass. Upon arriving there, The Boy becomes smitten with a local girl. She and her father are seeking work from the villainous Tiger Lip Tompkins who owns half the town and terrorizes its people. He has lecherous plans for The Girl. When she rejects Tompkins' advances, Tompkins holds The Girl's father hostage in an upstairs room in a local saloon. The Boy frees The Girl's father and is hotly pursued by a large posse of Tompkins' white-hood clad hirelings who intend to run him out of the state. Using a number of evasive ploys, The Boy eludes the posse and escapes with The Girl. The film ends with The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Jazzed Honeymoon
''A Jazzed Honeymoon'' is a 1919 American short film, short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. In this eight-minute short, a newly married couple have adventures on a steamship. Cast * Harold Lloyd as The Boy * Snub Pollard * Bebe Daniels * Sammy Brooks * Mildred Forbes * Estelle Harrison * Wallace Howe * Bud Jamison * Margaret Joslin * Dee Lampton * Gus Leonard * Belle Mitchell * Marie Mosquini * James Parrott * William Petterson * Noah Young See also * Harold Lloyd filmography References External links * * 1919 films Silent American comedy films 1919 short films American silent short films 1919 comedy films American black-and-white films Films directed by Hal Roach Films with screenplays by H. M. Walker American comedy short films 1910s American films {{1910s-short-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Dropped In (film)
''Just Dropped In'' is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Cast * Harold Lloyd as The Boy * Snub Pollard * Bebe Daniels * Mildred Forbes * Estelle Harrison * Wallace Howe * Margaret Joslin * Belle Mitchell * William Petterson * Noah Young See also * List of American films of 1919 * Harold Lloyd filmography These are the known films of Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), an American actor and filmmaker most famous for his hugely successful and influential silent film comedies. Most of these films are known to survive in Lloyd's personal archive collection ... References External links * 1919 films 1919 short films 1919 comedy films American silent short films American black-and-white films Silent American comedy films Films directed by Hal Roach American comedy short films 1910s American films {{1910s-short-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoots Mon! (1919 Film)
''Hoot Mon!'' is a 1919 American silent comedy film featuring Stan Laurel. Cast * Bunny Bixby * Harry Clifton * Caroline Fowler * Wallace Howe * Bud Jamison * Marie Joslyn * Jerome Laplauch * Stan Laurel * Gus Leonard * Belle Mitchell * Marie Mosquini * James Parrott * William Petterson * Lillian Rothchild * Emmy Wallace * Dorothea Wolbert * Noah Young See also * List of American films of 1919 This list of American films of 1919 is a compilation of American films that were released in the year 1919. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P–Q R S T U V W Y–Z Short films See also * 1919 in ... References External links * 1919 films 1919 comedy films 1919 short films Silent American comedy films American silent short films American black-and-white films Films directed by Hal Roach American comedy short films 1910s American films {{1910s-short-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
