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Chester Gan
Chester Gan (1908-1959) was an American character actor of Chinese descent who worked in Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1950s. Biography Chester Gan was born in Grass Valley, California, to Wing Hong Gan and Wong Shee. He went to China for university, where he developed an interest in acting. Upon his return to the United States, he headed to Los Angeles, where he worked as an engineer. In 1932, Gan's acting career in Hollywood began as a Chinese guard in ''Secrets of the French Police ''Secrets of the French Police'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code crime film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Gwili Andre, Gregory Ratoff, and Frank Morgan. The film was made as a B film by RKO Radio Pictures, using some of the sets fr ...''. Gan played almost a hundred roles, typically portraying Asian stereotypes, from the Chinese cook or waiter to the Japanese enemy soldier. (He once joked that as an actor, he was responsible for hundreds of on-screen deaths.) He also work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grass Valley, California
Grass Valley is a city in Nevada County, California, United States. Situated at roughly in elevation in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, this northern Gold Country city is by car from Sacramento, from Sacramento International Airport, west of Reno, and northeast of San Francisco. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 12,860. History Grass Valley, which was originally known as Boston Ravine and later named Centerville, dates from the California Gold Rush, as does nearby Nevada City. Gold was discovered at Gold Hill in October 1850 and population grew around the mine. When a post office was established in 1851, it was renamed Grass Valley the next year for unknown reasons. The town incorporated in 1860. The essential history of Grass Valley mining belongs to the North Star, Empire and Idaho-Maryland mines, for continuous production over a span of years. From 1868 until 1900, the Idaho-Maryland mine was the most producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bishop Misbehaves (film)
''The Bishop Misbehaves'' is a 1935 American comedy crime film directed by E. A. Dupont and starring Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Sullivan and Lucile Watson. It was based on the 1934 play of the same title by Frederick J. Jackson. Dupont made the film after signing a one-film contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, having made his first American sound film the year before with Universal Pictures. It is also known by the alternative title ''The Bishop's Misadventures''. Plot American photographer Donald Meadows is touring Britain to take photos of cathedrals. He sees Hester Grantham attending services at a cathedral and flirts with her. She isn’t interested until she talks to him and finds that he is an American from Chicago. She figures a man from Chicago knows about crime. She asks if he has a gun. He says yes. She tells him she needs his help in committing a robbery. Thinking she is joking, he gets roped into her scheme to retrieve documents that prove that Guy Waller stole do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ace Drummond (serial)
''Ace Drummond'' is a Universal Pictures 1936 film serial based on the comic strip " Ace Drummond" written by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and drawn by Clayton Knight. The serial's cast features John King, Jean Rogers, Noah Beery Jr. and Jackie Morrow, with Lon Chaney Jr. in a supporting role. Plot A mysterious villain who calls himself the Dragon is attempting to prevent International Airways from beginning service in Mongolia, in order to protect the secret of the mountain of jade for himself. The serial features a dungeon in the nearby monastery, the kidnapping of an archeologist who stumbles onto the secret, his daughter's attempts to rescue him with Ace's help, a death ray the Dragon uses on the airline pilots, a radio system by which The Dragon communicates with his henchmen via the rotation of Buddhist prayer wheels (each transmission concluding "The Dragon commands!"), and a squadron of his own fighter planes. Cast * John King as Ace Drummond * Jean Rogers as Peg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Spoilers
''Sea Spoilers'' is a 1936 American drama mystery film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring John Wayne. Plot A Coast Guardsman must rescue his kidnapped girlfriend from smugglers willing to kill in order to maintain their illegal trade in seal skins. Along the way, he has to overcome a less-than-competent superior officer and being kidnapped by the smugglers. Cast * John Wayne as "Bos'n" Bob Randall * Nan Grey as Connie Dawson * William Bakewell as Lieut. Commander Mays * Fuzzy Knight as Hogan * Russell Hicks as Phil Morgan * George Irving as Commander Mays * Lotus Long as Marie * Harry J. Worth as Nick Austin * Ernest Hilliard as Reggie * George Humbert as Johnny "Hop-Scotch" * Ethan Laidlaw as Louie * Chester Gan as Oil * Cy Kendall as Detective * Harrison Greene as Fats See also * John Wayne filmography American actor, director, and producer John Wayne (1907–1979) began working on films as an extra, prop man and stuntman, mainly for the Fox Film Corporation. He f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco (1936 Film)
''San Francisco'' is a 1936 musical-drama disaster film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy. MacDonald's singing helped make this film a major hit, coming on the heels of her other 1936 blockbuster, '' Rose Marie''. Plot On New Year's Eve, 1905, saloon keeper "Blackie" Norton hires Mary Blake to sing in his bar, the ''Paradise Club'' on Pacific Street in the notorious Barbary Coast of San Francisco. Mary becomes a star attraction at the ''Paradise'', especially for her signature tune, "San Francisco". Blackie's friend Matt predicts that Mary will not stay long on the "Coast". Blackie decides to run for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at the behest of his childhood friend Father Tim Mullen, who believes Blackie can use the supervisor position to implement reform. Mary is hired by the Tivoli Opera House on Market Street, where she becomes involved with Nob Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Country Beyond (1936 Film)
''The Country Beyond'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by Eugene Forde and written by Adele Comandini and Lamar Trotti. The film stars Rochelle Hudson, Paul Kelly, Robert Kent, Alan Hale, Sr., Alan Dinehart and Andrew Tombes. The film was released on April 24, 1936, by 20th Century Fox. Plot Cast *Rochelle Hudson as Jean Alison * Paul Kelly as Sgt. Cassidy * Robert Kent as Cpl. Robert King *Alan Hale, Sr. as Jim Alison *Alan Dinehart as Ray Jennings *Andrew Tombes as Sen. Rawlings *Claudia Coleman as Mrs. Rawlings *Matt McHugh as Const. Weller *Paul McVey as Fred Donaldson *Holmes Herbert Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952, often as a British gentleman. Early life Born Horace Edward Jenner, (some sou ... as Insp. Reed References External links * 1936 films 1930s English-language films American drama films 1936 drama fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Town Girl (1936 Film)
''Small Town Girl'' is a 1936 romantic comedy film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, and James Stewart. The supporting cast features Binnie Barnes, Andy Devine, Lewis Stone and Edgar Kennedy. Based on a novel by Ben Ames Williams, the film went through many changes before it reached the screen. The script is credited to John Lee Mahin, Edith Fitzgerald, and the husband-and-wife team of Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich. Plot From TCM.com: “Kay Brannan (Janet Gaynor) is so bored with her life that she can barely tolerate her family and prospective suitor Elmer (James Stewart). A traffic diversion brings hundreds of Yale-Harvard football players through town. One of them, Robert Dakin (Robert Taylor), a socially prominent surgeon from Boston, asks her for directions to a popular roadhouse and takes her there to join in the fun. Later Bob becomes so drunk that he insists that they have a justice of the peace marry them. Kay is n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sutter's Gold
''Sutter's Gold'' is a 1936 American Western film. It is a fictionalized version of the aftermath of the discovery of gold on Sutter's property, spurring the California Gold Rush of 1849. Edward Arnold plays John Sutter. The supporting cast includes Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katherine Alexander, Montagu Love, and Harry Carey as Kit Carson. The film was directed by James Cruze. The film is based on the novel "L'Or; la merveilleuse histoire du général Johann August Suter" by Blaise Cendrars (Paris, 1925); , and a play by Bruno Frank. Cast * Edward Arnold as John Sutter * Lee Tracy as Pete Perkin * Binnie Barnes as Countess Elizabeth Bartoffski * Katharine Alexander as Anna Sutter *Montagu Love as Capt. Kettleson * Addison Richards as James Marshall * John Miljan as Gen. Juan Bautista Alvarado * Harry Carey as Kit Carson * William Janney as John Sutter, Jr. * Nan Grey as Ann Eliza Sutter *Robert Warwick as Gen. Alexander Rotscheff * Morgan Wallace as General Fremont * Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klondike Annie
''Klondike Annie'' is a 1936 American Western film starring Mae West and Victor McLaglen. The film was co-written by West from her play ''Frisco Kate'', which she wrote in 1921 and a story written by the duo Marion Morgan and George Brendan Dowell. Raoul Walsh directed. Plot Mae West portrays a kept woman by the name of Rose Carlton, "The Frisco Doll". She murders her keeper Chan Lo in self-defence and escapes on a steamer to Nome, Alaska, wanted for murder. She is joined mid-voyage by a missionary, Sister Annie Alden. Sister Annie is on her way to rescue a financially troubled mission in Nome, and inspires Rose, but dies en route. Rose assumes the identity of Sister Annie to avoid arrest, dressing her as a prostitute in a scene later deleted by the censors. The Frisco Doll decides to keep Sister Annie's promise of rescuing the mission and raises the money by combining soul-shaking sermon and song with street smarts. She's romanced both by a beautiful young Sheriff being general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drift Fence
''Drift Fence'' (reissued as ''Texas Desperadoes'') is a 1936 American Western film, directed by Otho Lovering and released by Paramount Pictures. The film's sets were designed by art director David S. Garber. Cast * Buster Crabbe as "Slinger" Dunn * Katherine DeMille as Molly Dunn * Tom Keene as Jim Travis * Benny Baker as Jim Traft * Leif Erickson as Curley Prentice * Stanley Andrews as Clay Jackson * Richard Carle as Sheriff Peter Bingham * Irving Bacon as "Windy" Watkins, Traft Foreman * Effie Ellsler as Grandma Dunn * Jan Duggan as Carrie Bingham, Sheriff Bingham's sister * Walter Long as Bev Wilson, Neighbor * Richard Alexander as Seth Haverly, Jackson Henchman * Budd Fine as Sam Haverly, Jackson Henchman * Chester Gan as Clarence – Ranch Cook * Jack Pennick Ronald Jack Pennick (December 7, 1895 – August 16, 1964) was an American film actor. After working as a gold miner as a young man, serving as a US Marine, he would go on to appear in more than 140 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Frank Merriwell (serial)
''The Adventures of Frank Merriwell'' (1936) is a Universal movie serial based on the Frank Merriwell books by Gilbert Patten. Plot College sports hero Frank Meriwell leaves school before an impending decisive baseball game to track down his missing father and locate a fabulous lost treasure. Cast *Don Briggs as Frank Merriwell *Jean Rogers as Elsie Belwood * John King as Bruce Browning *Bentley Hewett as Daggett * House Peters Jr. as House Peters * Carla Laemmle as Carla *Sumner Getchell as Harry * Wallace Reid Jr. as Wally *Herschel Mayall Jr. as Herschel *Al Bridge as Henchman Black * Dick Wessell as Henchman Joe *Bud Osborne as Henchman Gorman *Ed Cobb as Henchman Pete *Sam McDaniel as Servant Jeff * Walter Law as Mr. Belwood *Ella Ethridge as Mrs. Merriwell *William P. Carlton as Mr. Merriwell Production ''The Adventures of Frank Merriwell'' is set in 1936 instead of the 1890s of the source material. Universal combined several stories by Burt Standish to make this film. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Of The Pagans
''Last of the Pagans'' is a 1935 MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 a ... film based on the Herman Melville novel ''Typee'' (1846). The film was shot on location in Tahiti.A Director of a Tropical Film Has A Visitor's Usual Odd Experiences: Dick Thorpe Discovers All Strange Phenomena of Distant Islands. By Richard Thorpe. (Director of "Last of the Pagans"). The Washington Post 8 Dec 1935: M1. Plot summary Taro is a native of the island of Tofua who kidnaps a wife named Lilleo from the neighboring island while Bride kidnapping, bride hunting. At first she greatly dislikes him but comes to love him. During a feast, an American schooner arrives at the island and offers liquor and trinkets such as pocket watches to the natives if they sign a form they can not read which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
