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Caught In The Act (1941 Film)
''Caught in the Act'' is a 1941 American comedy crime film directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring Henry Armetta, Iris Meredith and Inez Palange. Langman & Finn p.43 It was made and distributed as a low-budget second feature by the Producers Releasing Corporation. Synopsis On his daughter's wedding day, construction foreman Mike Ripportella suddenly finds himself pursued by an attractive blonde, gangsters, and the police who want to pin a murder on him. Cast * Henry Armetta as Mike Ripportella * Iris Meredith as Lucy Ripportella * Robert Baldwin as Jim Keene * Charles Miller as Leonard Brandon * Inez Palange as Mary Ripportella * Richard Terry as Henderson - Extortion Gangster * Joey Ray as Davis - Extortion Gangster * Maxine Leslie as Fay Kingman * William Newell as Police Sergeant Riley * Jack Cheatham as Police Detective * Fern Emmett as Gossip * George McKay as Police Detective * Frank O'Connor as Policeman * Ralph Peters as Policeman * Rose Plumer R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Yarbrough
Jean Yarbrough (August 22, 1901 – August 2, 1975) was an American film director. Biography Jean Yarbrough was born in Marianna, Arkansas on August 22, 1901. He attended the University of the South located in Sewanee, Tennessee. In 1922, Yarbrough entered the film business working in silent pictures, first as a "prop man" and later rising through the ranks to become an assistant director. By 1936, he was a bona fide director, first doing comedy and musical shorts for RKO which was founded by Joseph P. Kennedy among others. His directorial debut for a feature-length film was ''Rebellious Daughters'' which was made by the low-budget studio, Progressive Pictures in 1938. His greatest success came in the 1940s and 1950s, when he directed comedy teams like Abbott and Costello (five films: ''Here Come the Co-Eds'', ''In Society'', ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', ''Lost in Alaska'', and ''The Naughty Nineties''), The Bowery Boys (five films: '' Angels in Disguise'', '' Master Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Miller (actor)
Charles Miller or Charlie Miller may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Bronco Charlie Miller (1850-1955), American showman and Old West figure * Charles F. Miller (1878–1925), American actor * Charles Henry Miller (1842–1922), artist and painter * Charles Miller (actor), actor in '' Thundering Trails'' (1943) and ''The Black Hills Express'' (1943) * Charles Miller (author) (1918–1986), author of popular books on East African history * Charles Miller (director) (1857–1936), American film director * Charles Miller (musician) (1939–1980), in the band War Politics * Charles E. Miller (1903–1979), American politician and businessman in Maryland * Charles H. Miller (1918-1971), American politician and farmer in Minnesota * Charles Miller (Kentucky politician) (born 1939), state legislator in Kentucky * Charles A. Miller (Alabama politician), Secretary of State of Alabama, 1868–70 * Charles A. Miller (Pennsylvania politician) (1850–1917), American businessman, news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940s English-language Films
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Comedy Films
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Action T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann, on behalf of Adolf Hitler, requires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua (typeface class), Antiqua. * January 4 – The short subject ''Elmer's Pet Rabbit'' is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card. * January 5 – WWII: Battle of Bardia in Libya: Australian an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Films
The year 1941 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, '' Citizen Kane''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1941 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 17 ''Gone with the Wind'' goes into general release after touring in a roadshow version during 1940. Becoming a cultural phenomenon, it sells an estimated 60 million tickets this year alone. Adjusted for inflation with numerous rereleases, it remains the highest grossing domestic film of all time with $1.8 billion. *March 24 - Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie '' Sun Valley Serenade'' for Twentieth Century Fox *May 1 – '' Citizen Kane'', consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, is released. *July 2 – '' Sergeant York'', the film biopic of World War I hero Alvin C. York, starring Gary Cooper in the title role, premieres in New York City. It is the highest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Plumer
Rose Plumer (January 19, 1876, California – March 3, 1955, Hollywood, California) was an American actress. She married actor Lincoln Plumer. Selected filmography * '' The Family Secret'' (1924) * '' Outside the Law'' (1930) * '' A House Divided'' (1931) * ''Law of the West'' (1932) * ''The Bowery'' (1933) *''The Brand of Hate'' (1934) * ''Circumstantial Evidence'' (1935) * ''Inside the Law'' (1942) * ''Bullets and Saddles'' (1943) * ''Marshal of Reno'' (1944) * ''Dark Mountain'' (1944) * '' Phantom of the Plains'' (1945) * ''The Madonna's Secret ''The Madonna's Secret'' is a 1946 American film noir crime film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Francis Lederer, Gail Patrick, Ann Rutherford and Edward Ashley.Alvarez p.46 Plot Drama critic John Earl observes a piece of artwork in a ...'' (1946) References External links * Actresses from California American silent film actresses 1876 births 1955 deaths 20th-century American actresses Actresses from Fresno, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
