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Christian Rub
Christian Rub (pronounced ''Rhoob''; April 13, 1886 – April 14, 1956) was an Austrian-born American character actor. He was known for his work in films of the late 1910s to the early 1950s, and was featured in more than 100 films. Biography He was born in Graz, in Austria-Hungary. His first appearance was in the 1919 movie '' The Belle of New York''. Rub was the visual basis for and voice of Geppetto in the 1940 animated Disney film ''Pinocchio'', as well as voices of kindly old men for MGM, Fox and Warner Bros. cartoons. During the creation of ''Pinocchio,'' Rub was notorious amongst the film's animators for his open and frequent expression of admiration for Adolf Hitler. Rub's last movie role was in 1952's ''Something for the Birds''. He died in Santa Barbara, California one day after his 70th birthday. Partial filmography * '' The Belle of New York'' (1919) – (film debut) * ''The Trial of Vivienne Ware'' (1932) – Axel Nordstrom * '' The Man from Yesterday'' (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graz
Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the population of the Graz larger urban zone (LUZ) stood at 652,654, based on principal-residence status. Graz is known as a college and university city, with four colleges and four universities. Combined, the city is home to more than 60,000 students. Its historic centre ('' Altstadt'') is one of the best-preserved city centres in Central Europe. In 1999, the city's historic centre was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites and in 2010 the designation was expanded to include Eggenberg Palace (german: Schloss Eggenberg) on the western edge of the city. Graz was designated the Cultural Capital of Europe in 2003 and became a City of Culinary Delights in 2008. Etymology The name of the city, Graz, formerly spelled Gratz, most likely stems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 from RKO's ''The Most Dangerous Game'' (1932). The film is based partly on Samuel Ornitz's own unpublished novel ''The Last Empress''.Dick p.20 Plot In Paris, a French thief is employed by the Sûreté to investigate a sinister Russian émigré who may have the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia at his house. Cast * Gwili Andre as Eugenie Dorain * Gregory Ratoff as Han Moloff * Frank Morgan as François St. Cyr * John Warburton as Leon Renault * Rochelle Hudson as K-31 * Christian Rub as Anton Dorain * Murray Kinnell as Bertillon * Arnold Korff as Grand Duke Maxim * Kendall Lee as Rena Harka * Lucien Prival as Lomzoi * Guido Trento as Count de Marsay * Wong Chung as Chinese Guard * Harry Cording as Man Reading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No More Women (1934 Film)
''No More Women'' is a 1934 American pre-Code adventure film directed by Albert S. Rogell and starring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Sally Blane and Minna Gombell. The film was released and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was part of a long-running series that paired Lowe and McLaglen as friendly rivals dating back to the 1926 silent film ''What Price Glory? (1926 film), What Price Glory?'' Synopsis Two Marine salvage, salvage divers are romantic rivals for the love of Annie Fay. They both agree to back off and swear that they will pursue "no more women". However soon afterwards one of their boats is inherited by the attractive Helen Young who takes up quarters aboard. This triggers a new rivalry between them, and leads briefly to one of them wrongly being suspected of the other's murder. They join forces to thwart an attempt to kill them by a greedy rival crew when they are diving to recover a cargo of gold bullion. Ultimately Helen picks neither of them, telling them th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cat And The Fiddle (film)
''The Cat and the Fiddle'' is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic musical film directed by William K. Howard based on the hit 1931 Broadway musical of the same name by Jerome Kern and Otto A. Harbach, about a romance between a struggling composer and an American singer. The film stars Ramon Novarro and Jeanette MacDonald in her MGM debut. Plot The film plot is substantially changed from that of the Broadway musical. Victor Florescu (Ramon Novarro) is a composer desperately trying to get his operetta to opening night. First his leading lady (Vivienne Segal) leaves, taking the bulk of their budget with her. Then the male lead splits, leaving Victor to fill his role. Next he calls upon an old love, songstress Shirley Sheridan (Jeanette MacDonald) to be his ingénue, but she insists that she is leaving the theater to marry her affluent, but unfaithful fiancé (Frank Morgan).Green, Stanley (1999) Hollywood Musicals Year by Year (2nd ed.), pub. Hal Leonard Corporation page 29 Cast *R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Of Two Worlds (film)
''Man of Two Worlds'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by J. Walter Ruben and starring Francis Lederer, Elissa Landi and Henry Stephenson. Plot A British explorer to the Arctic hires an Eskimo guide for his expedition. Extremely skilled at his job, he has little knowledge of Western civilization. When he travels to London he falls in love with his employer's daughter, but also struggles to adjust to the different culture. Box office It lost $220,000. The film was a box-office disappointment for RKO. Cast * Francis Lederer as Aigo * Elissa Landi as Joan Pemberton * J. Farrell MacDonald as Michael * Henry Stephenson as Sir Basil Pemberton * Walter Byron as Eric Pager * Forrester Harvey as Tim * Ivan F. Simpson as Dr. Lott * Lumsden Hare as Captain Swan * Christian Rub as Knudson * Émile Chautard as Natkusiak * Steffi Duna Steffi Duna (born Erzsébet Berindey; 8 February 1910 – 22 April 1992) was a Hungarian-born film actress. Hungarian dancer Born in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Man Of Sentiment
''A Man of Sentiment'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Marian Marsh, Owen Moore and Christian Rub.Pitts p.94 Cast * Marian Marsh as Julia Wilkens * Owen Moore as Stanley Colton * Christian Rub as Herman Heupelkossel * William Bakewell as John Russell * Emma Dunn as Mrs. John Russell Sr. * Edmund Breese as John Russell Sr. * Geneva Mitchell as Doris Russell * Pat O'Malley as Officer Ryan * Syd Saylor as Swede - Orderly * Lucille Ward as Miss Tracy * Cornelius Keefe as Dr. Jordan * Otto Hoffman as Landlord * Matt McHugh Matthew O. McHugh (January 22, 1894 – February 22, 1971) was an American film actor who appeared in more than 200 films between 1931 and 1955, primarily in small cameo parts. Career McHugh came from a theatrical family. His parents ran a s ... as Alex (Willie) Moran - Orderly * William Bailey as Doctor * Mildred Washington as Mildred - the Maid References Bibliography * Pitts, Michael R. ''Poverty Row S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bureau Of Missing Persons
''Bureau of Missing Persons'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film with comic overtones directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O'Brien and Glenda Farrell . The screenplay by Robert Presnell is based on the book ''Missing Men'' by former New York City Police Captain John H. Ayers and Carol Bird. Plot Brash detective Butch Saunders is demoted from the robbery division to the bureau of missing persons. Captain Webb, his new boss, is unsure whether Butch will fit in or is on his way out of the police department. Webb assigns Joe Musik to show Butch around. Gradually, Butch earns Webb's respect and trust. Cases the bureau handles include a philandering husband, a child prodigy who yearns to live a normal life, an aging bachelor whose housekeeper has disappeared, and an old lady whose daughter has run away, among others. Hank Slade works doggedly on one particular case - a missing wife - throughout the film, only to discover that she has been working ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tugboat Annie
''Tugboat Annie'' is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, written by Norman Reilly Raine and Zelda Sears, and starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery as a comically quarrelsome middle-aged couple who operate a tugboat. Dressler and Beery were MGM's most popular screen team at that time, having recently made the bittersweet ''Min and Bill'' (1930) together, for which Dressler won the Academy Award for Best Actress. The boisterous Tugboat Annie character first appeared in a series of stories in the ''Saturday Evening Post'' written by the author Norman Reilly Raine which were supposedly based on the life of Thea Foss of Tacoma, Washington. There is also a theory that her character is loosely based on Kate A. Sutton, secretary and dispatcher for the Providence Steamboat Company during the 1920s. ''Tugboat Annie'' also features Robert Young and Maureen O'Sullivan as the requisite pair of young lovers. Captain Clarence Howden piloted Annie's tugboat "''Narcissus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Stevens, M
Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also called the Blessed Virgin Mary * Mary Magdalene, devoted follower of Jesus * Mary of Bethany, follower of Jesus, considered by Western medieval tradition to be the same person as Mary Magdalene * Mary, mother of James * Mary of Clopas, follower of Jesus * Mary, mother of John Mark * Mary of Egypt, patron saint of penitents * Mary of Rome, a New Testament woman * Mary, mother of Zechariah and sister of Moses and Aaron; mostly known by the Hebrew name: Miriam * Mary the Jewess one of the reputed founders of alchemy, referred to by Zosimus. * Mary 2.0, Roman Catholic women's movement * Maryam (surah) "Mary", 19th surah (chapter) of the Qur'an Royalty * Mary, Countess of Blois (1200–1241), daughter of Walter of Avesnes and Margaret of Blois * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kiss Before The Mirror
''The Kiss Before the Mirror'' is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film adapted from the 1932 play by Ladislas Fodor, directed by James Whale and starring Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas, and Gloria Stuart. Plot Attorney Paul Held is defending his friend, Walter Bernsdorf, who has been charged with the murder of his wife Lucy in Vienna. By Walter's account, Lucy was unfaithful to him during their marriage. After a court hearing, Paul returns home to his wife, Maria, and watches her as she applies make-up at her vanity. The scene reminds him of the one Walter described leading up to Lucy's murder. When Paul attempts to kiss Maria, she rebuffs him, criticizing him for ruining her make-up. She then leaves their home. Paul follows Maria through the streets of Vienna, and observes her meeting with a male lover. This enrages Paul, and he fantasizes about murdering Maria; he also becomes obsessed with vindicating Walter of killing Lucy, hoping to prove in court that Walter's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mind Reader
''The Mind Reader'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and written by Robert Lord and Wilson Mizner. The film stars Warren William, Constance Cummings, Allen Jenkins, Natalie Moorhead, Mayo Methot and Clarence Muse. The film was released by Warner Bros. on April 1, 1933. Plot Cast *Warren William as Chandra *Constance Cummings as Sylvia *Allen Jenkins as Frank *Natalie Moorhead as Mrs. Austin *Mayo Methot as Jenny *Clarence Muse as Sam *Earle Foxe as Don *George Chandler as Reporter *Wilson Benge George Frederick "Wilson" Benge (1 March 1875 – 1 July 1955) was an English actor who mostly featured in American films from the silent days. He appeared in over 200 films between 1922 and 1955. Along with actors Charles Coleman and Rob ... as the bearded tooth pulling victim References External links * 1933 films 1933 drama films American drama films American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films Films directed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humanity (film)
''Humanity'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and written by Bradley King. The film stars Ralph Morgan, Boots Mallory, Alexander Kirkland, Irene Ware, Noel Madison and Wade Boteler. The film was released om March 3, 1933, by Fox Film Corporation. Cast *Ralph Morgan as Dr. William MacDonald *Boots Mallory as Nancy Moore * Alexander Kirkland as Bill MacDonald *Irene Ware as Olive Pelton *Noel Madison as Sam Bernstein *Wade Boteler as Police Lt. Mike Farley *Christian Rub as Schmiddy *Betty Jane Graham as Rosie Schmidt *Ferike Boros as Mrs. Bernstein * George Irving as Dr. Van Buren *Crauford Kent as James Pelton *Nella Walker Nella Walker (March 6, 1886 – March 22, 1971) was an American actress and vaudeville performer of the 1920s through the 1950s. Biography The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walker, she was born and raised in Chicago. In 1910, she marrie ... as Mrs. James Pelton References External links * 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
