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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] |
Ralph Peters (actor)
Ralph Peters (born April 19, 1952) is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and author. In addition to his non-fiction books, he has published eight novels under the pen name Owen Parry of which ''Honor's Kingdom'' received the Hammett Prize. Three of his novels published as Ralph Peters received the W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. Early life and education Peters is of German Lutheran descent on his father's side, and Welsh Methodist on his mother's. He was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania and grew up in nearby Schuylkill Haven. His father was a coal miner and businessman. His wife, Katherine McIntire Peters, is the Deputy Editor of Government Executive Media Group, a division of Atlantic Media. Career Military Peters enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1976 after graduating from Pennsylvania State University. Peters' first assignment was in Germany. After returning from Germany, he attended Officer Candidate School and received a commission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank O'Connor (actor, Born 1897)
Charles Francis "Frank" O'Connor (September 22, 1897 – November 7, 1979) was an American actor, painter, and rancher and the husband of novelist Ayn Rand. Frank O'Connor performed in several films, typically as an extra, during the silent and early sound eras until about 1934. While working on the set of the 1927 film ''The King of Kings'', O'Connor met Rand, and they eventually dated each other steadily. They married in 1929. When O'Connor and Rand moved to California so Rand could work on the movie adaptation of her novel '' The Fountainhead'', O'Connor purchased and managed a ranch in the San Fernando Valley for several years. In addition to raising numerous flora and fauna on the ranch, he there developed the Lipstick and Halloween hybrids of '' Delphinium'' and '' Gladiolus''. After the couple moved to New York City in 1951, he took up painting and became a member of the Art Students League of New York. He provided the cover art for some of Rand's published work af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George McKay (actor)
George McKay (15 April 1884 – 3 December 1945) was a Russian-American actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1929 to 1946. Selected filmography References External links * * 1884 births 1945 deaths American male film actors 20th-century American male actors Russian male film actors Actors from Minsk Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States {{US-film-actor-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fern Emmett
Fern Emmett (March 22, 1896 – September 3, 1946) was an American film actress. She appeared in 212 films between 1930 and 1946. Emmett's film debut came with Universal in a two-reel production in 1914. Personal life Emmett was married to actor Henry Roquemore. Death Emmett died in Hollywood, California. Her remains are interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14000 Famous Persons by Scott Wilson Selected filmography * '' Second Honeymoon'' (1930) * '' Romance of the West'' (1930) * '' Westward Bound'' (1930) * '' West of Cheyenne'' (1931) * ''Rider of the Plains'' (1931) * '' Ten Nights in a Bar-Room'' (1931) * '' Dynamite Denny'' (1932) * ''Bridge Wives'' (1932) * '' Hollywood Luck'' (1932) * ''Hollywood Lights'' (1932) * ''Love in High Gear'' (1932) * ''East of Fifth Avenue'' (1933) * ''Riders of Destiny'' (1933) * '' Blue Steel'' (1934) * ''Terror of the Plains'' (1934) * ''Loser's End'' (1935) * ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Cheatham
John Preston Cheatham (December 28, 1894 – March 30, 1971) was an American character actor of the 1930s and 1940s. During his career he appeared in almost 200 films, with 100 of them being features. Life and career Born John Preston Cheatham on December 28, 1894, in Jackson, Mississippi, he began acting in the 1920s, including two Broadway appearances. In 1928 he would appear in the successful ''Diamond Lil'', written by and starring Mae West. Cheatham entered the film industry with his performance in a featured role in 1931's ''Shanghaied Love'', starring Richard Cromwell, Noah Beery, and Sally Blane. Notable films in which Cheatham appeared include: ''The Whole Town's Talking'' (1935), starring Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur; ''The Petrified Forest'' (1936), starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, and Bette Davis; Frank Capra's 1936 comedy, ''Mr. Deeds Goes to Town'', starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur; the classic ''Meet John Doe'' (1941), directed by Capra and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Newell (actor)
William M. Newell (January 6, 1894 – February 21, 1967)''California, Death Index, 1940-1997'' was an American film actor. Biography Newell was most active in the 1930s, familiar to fans of the '' Our Gang'' short subjects in his recurring role as Alfalfa's father, and as Dr. Henley on ''Our Miss Brooks''. Newell was cast as a hobo in "Little Boy Blew," one of the last episodes of the Walter Brennan sitcom, ''The Real McCoys'', then airing on CBS. He died in 1967 in Studio City, Los Angeles''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. and is interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Selected filmography * '' Bombshell'' (1933) - Lola's Chauffeur (uncredited) * '' The Woman in Red'' (1935) - Reporter (uncredited) * ''Gold Diggers of 1935'' (1935) - Newspaper Reporter (uncredited) * ''Alias Mary Dow'' (1935) - Reporter (uncredited) * '' Honeymoon Limited'' (1935) - Cop (uncredited) * ''Here Comes the Band'' (1935) - Greasy (uncredit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
