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Dan Tobin
Daniel Malloy Tobin (October 19, 1910 – November 26, 1982) was an American supporting actor on the stage, in films and on television. He generally played gentle, urbane, rather fussy, sometimes obsequious and shifty characters, often with a concealed edge of malice. Early years Tobin was a native of Cincinnati, and he attended the University of Cincinnati. Career Tobin acted with a touring troupe in England. After an impresario saw him in ''Ah, Wilderness!'', he gained a role in ''Behind Your Back'' at the Strand. '' Tobin's most memorable roles were as the overbearing secretary, Gerald, in ''Woman of the Year'' (1942), and the top-billed scientist in Orson Welles's innovative Peabody Award-winning unsold television pilot, ''The Fountain of Youth'', filmed in 1956 and televised once two years later as an installment of NBC's ''Colgate Theatre''. Tobin's final film role was opposite John Huston in Welles's ''The Other Side of the Wind'', shot in the early 1970s and release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four Star Playhouse
''Four Star Playhouse'' is an American anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956. Four Star Playhouse was owned by Four Star International. Its episodes ranged anywhere from surreal mysteries, such as "The Man on the Train", to light comedies, such as "The Lost Silk Hat". The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. The show was sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company. Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953 (both sponsors' names alternated as part of the show's title in its initial broadcasts). While it never made the Nielsen Top 30, the ratings were sufficient to keep it on the air for four seasons. In 1954, Billboard voted it the second best filmed network television drama series. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Married Joan
''I Married Joan'' is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. It starred actress Joan Davis as the manic, scatterbrained wife of a mild-mannered community judge (Jim Backus). Synopsis The show, whose syndicated opening makes the claim "America's favorite comedy show, starring America's queen of comedy, Joan Davis, as Mrs. Joan Stevens" focused on a married couple, Joan and Bradley Stevens. ''I Married Joans trademark was broad physical slapstick, with Joan Stevens portrayed as bright but somewhat childlike and given to misunderstanding. Virtually every episode had a plot which provided star Davis with a setup for at least one scene of over-the-top physical comedy. Davis's real-life daughter, Beverly Wills, was a regular cast member for several months of the show's second season, portraying Joan's sister, Beverly Grossman. Early installments began with Backus, as Judge Stevens in chambers, recalling how one of his wife's madcap mishaps paralleled the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sealed Verdict
''Sealed Verdict'' is a 1948 American adventure drama war film directed by Lewis Allen and starring Ray Milland and Florence Marly. Plot Maj. Robert Lawson (Ray Milland), a lawyer working in Germany as part of the American Army's tribunal for prosecuting Nazi war criminals, successfully convicts Gen. Otto Steigmann (John Hoyt) of war crimes. Defense witness Themis DeLisle (Florence Marly), whose French Resistance father's life was saved by Steigmann, insists the German officer is innocent. Despite pressure from his superiors, Lawson decides to reopen his investigation, uncovering evidence that may clear Steigmann. Cast * Ray Milland as Maj. Robert Lawson * Florence Marly as Themis DeLisle * Broderick Crawford as Captain Kinsella * John Hoyt as Gen. Otto Steigmann * John Ridgely as Capt. Lance Nissen * Ludwig Donath as Jacob Meyersohn * Norbert Schiller as Slava Rodal * Dan Tobin as Lieutenant Parker * Olive Blakeney as Camilla Cameron * Marcel Journet as Captain Gribemont * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Velvet Touch
''The Velvet Touch'' is a 1948 American film noir drama directed by Jack Gage and starring Rosalind Russell, Leon Ames, Leo Genn and Claire Trevor. Plot Broadway leading lady Valerie Stanton (Russell) accidentally kills her producer and former lover, Gordon Dunning (Ames), during an argument about the direction her career should take. He expects her to sign for his next production, a typical frothy comedy for which he is known, whereas she wants to star in a revival of ''Hedda Gabler'' to prove her versatility as an actress. Other characters involved in the plot are Michael Morrell (Genn), Valerie's new beau; supporting actress Marian Webster (Trevor), who is wrongly accused of committing Valerie's crime; and police Capt. Danbury (Greenstreet), who may know more than he is willing to disclose. Cast * Rosalind Russell as Valerie Stanton * Leo Genn as Michael Morrell * Claire Trevor as Marian Webster * Sydney Greenstreet as Capt. Danbury * Leon Ames as Gordon Dunning * Frank McHug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Clock (film)
''The Big Clock'' is a 1948 American film noir directed by John Farrow and adapted by novelist-screenwriter Jonathan Latimer from the 1946 novel of the same title by Kenneth Fearing. The black-and-white film is set in New York City, and stars Ray Milland, Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Sullivan. Elsa Lanchester and Harry Morgan, in an early film role, also appear. Noel Neill has an uncredited part as an elevator operator very early in the film. Plot George Stroud, editor-in-chief of ''Crimeways'' magazine, hides from building security inside the "big clock," which is the largest and most sophisticated clock ever built. The clock dominates the lobby of the Janoth Publications building in New York City, where Stroud works. Thirty-six hours earlier, Stroud is eager to embark on a long-postponed honeymoon in Wheeling, West Virginia with his wife Georgette and son. His tyrannical boss Earl Janoth wants him to stay to pursue a missing-person story that Stroud has just cracked, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer
''The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer'' (released as ''Bachelor Knight'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1947 American screwball romantic comedy-drama film directed by Irving Reis and written by Sidney Sheldon. The film stars Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple in a story about a teenager's crush on an older man. Upon its release, ''The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer'' was well received by both audiences and critics. Sidney Sheldon won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for this film. Plot Margaret Turner (Myrna Loy) and Susan Turner (Shirley Temple) are sisters who live together. Susan is an intelligent 17-year-old high-school student with a habit of forming short-lived interests after hearing the regular guest lectures at school. Margaret is a judge, and Susan's guardian. Richard Nugent (Cary Grant), a handsome and sophisticated artist, is a defendant in Margaret's courtroom, charged by ADA Tommy Chamberlain (Rudy Vallee) with starting a nightclub brawl. She release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Likely Story
''A Likely Story'' is a 1947 film directed by H. C. Potter. It starred real-life husband and wife Bill Williams and Barbara Hale. It is also known as ''A Fascinating Nuisance'' and ''Never Say Die''. Plot Bill Baker ( Bill Williams) has recently returned from war service as an aerial gunner in the Pacific where he had been hospitalized for mental illness. On his way to New York he meets a group of new characters on the train: painting artist Vickie North (Barbara Hale) and her brother Jamie (Lanny Rees), plus Louie (Sam Levene), an ex-convict. Louie mistakes Bill for a fellow gangster when he says he has "just got out" and offers him to come work for his gangster boss, Tiny McBride (Nestor Paiva). Bill talks to Louie about his numerous dizzy spells and his severe case of hypochondria. Later on the train, Bill is accidentally knocked unconscious when a case falls down from a shelf onto his head. Bill wakes up again in a hospital in New York. When he hears two doctors speak about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Undercurrent (1946 Film)
''Undercurrent'' is a 1946 American film noir drama directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, and Robert Mitchum. The screenplay was written by Edward Chodorov, based on the story "You Were There'" by Thelma Strabel, and allegedly contained uncredited contributions from Marguerite Roberts. Plot Ann Hamilton loves her husband Alan Garroway but their marriage is haunted by the absent figure of his brother Michael. A dark secret seems to lurk around the brothers' relationship and Ann's curiosity will eventually lead to its unveiling. Cast * Katharine Hepburn as Ann Hamilton * Robert Taylor as Alan Garroway * Robert Mitchum as Michael Garroway * Edmund Gwenn as Prof. "Dink" Hamilton * Marjorie Main as Lucy * Jayne Meadows as Sylvia Lea Burton * Clinton Sundberg as Mr. Warmsley * Dan Tobin as Prof. Joseph Bangs * Kathryn Card as Mrs. Foster * Leigh Whipper as George * Charles Trowbridge as Justice Putnam * James Westerfield as Henry Gilson * Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Limelight
''Black Limelight'' is a 1936 play by Gordon Sherry that in 1938 became a British crime film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Joan Marion and Raymond Massey. Plot "It concerns itself with the murder of a vulgar young woman [Lily]. Suspicion rests on refined young married Peter, who has disappeared, and is known to have spent week-ends with the young woman in question, apparently with the full knowledge of his charming wife [Mary]. She, on hearing of the murder, does everything in her power to screen her spouse. There are, of course, police and detectives on the track, but while they are seemingly very active, they rarely turn up at psychological moments. Peter therefore easily gains access to his home, despite the fact that no one could mistake him, in his unhappy condition, as other than one fleeing from justice. Did he commit the murder?" Production Sherry's play was an early serial-killer drama ("the monster's homicidal mania leaps up at the time of the full moon," noted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint John's Health Center
Providence Saint John's Health Center, formerly St. Johns Hospital and Health Center, is a private not-for-profit, Roman Catholic hospital in Santa Monica, California, United States. The hospital was founded in 1942 by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth. In 2014, the hospital was transferred to Providence Health & Services. Notable patients Birth *Patricia Kennedy Lawford, gave birth to her son Christopher Lawford on March 29, 1955. *Choreographer Michael Rooney was born here March 30, 1962. *Actress Mariska Hargitay was born there on January 23, 1964. *Comedian Adam Friedland was born here on April 10, 1987. *Lisa Marie Presley, Give birth to her eldest child Riley Keough in 1989. *Actresses Katie Holmes, Bridget Moynahan, and Brooke Shields gave birth. *First Lady of California Maria Shriver gave birth and had a nursery ward named in her honor in 2004. Died *Vaudeville comedian Frank Fay - September 25, 1961. * Songwriter Cole Porter on October 15, 1964 - kidney failure af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The First Hundred Years
''The First Hundred Years'' is the first ongoing TV soap opera in the United States that began as a daytime serial, airing on CBS from December 4, 1950 until June 27, 1952. A previous daytime drama on NBC, ''These Are My Children'', aired in 1949 but only lasted one month, and NBC's ''Hawkins Falls'' began in June 1950 as a primetime "soap" and didn't move to daytime until April 1951. The show began with the wedding of Chris Thayer and Connie Martin, which lasted for the first week of episodes. The couple settled down in a huge, unkept white elephant mansion, a present from Connie's father. The series did not succeed due to very low viewership, as few American households had television sets, and fewer still watched during the afternoon. The series was replaced with the television version of ''Guiding Light'', which would prove to be much more successful, airing for 57 years (72 years total when its 15-year run on radio is taken into account). See also *Hubert Schlafly Huber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Mason (1957 TV Series)
''Perry Mason'' is an American legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. Many episodes are based on stories written by Gardner. ''Perry Mason'' was one of Hollywood's first weekly one-hour series filmed for television, and remains one of the longest-running and most successful legal-themed television series. During its first season, it received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Dramatic Series, and it became one of the five most popular shows on television. Burr received two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and Barbara Hale received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Mason's confidential secretary Della Street. ''Perry Mason'' and Burr were honored as Favorite Series and F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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