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David L. Loew
David Leonard Loew (October 5, 1897 – March 25, 1973) was an American film producer. Biography He and his twin brother, Arthur Loew were born on October 5, 1897, to MGM founder Marcus Loew. After being elected to the board of directors of Loew's, Inc., in 1922, he resigned from the studio in 1935 to launch an independent production career. In the early 1940s, he formed an independent production company with Albert Lewin and Stanley Kramer. At the end of World War II, he formed Enterprise Productions with actor John Garfield and former Warner Bros. publicity chief Charles Einfeld. He died on March 25, 1973, at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He was survived by his wife, Hilda. Filmography *'' When's Your Birthday?'' (1937) *'' Riding on Air'' (1937) *''Fit for a King'' (1937) *''Wide Open Faces'' (1938) *''The Gladiator'' (1938) *'' Flirting with Fate'' (1938) *''So Ends Our Night'' (1941) *''The Moon and Sixpence'' (1942 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twin Brother
Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy.MedicineNet > Definition of TwinLast Editorial Review: 19 June 2000 Twins can be either ''monozygotic'' ('identical'), meaning that they develop from one zygote, which splits and forms two embryos, or ''dizygotic'' ('non-identical' or 'fraternal'), meaning that each twin develops from a separate egg and each egg is fertilized by its own sperm cell. Since identical twins develop from one zygote, they will share the same sex, while fraternal twins may or may not. In rare cases twins can have the same mother and different fathers (heteropaternal superfecundation). In contrast, a fetus that develops alone in the womb (the much more common case, in humans) is called a ''singleton'', and the general term for one offspring of a multiple birth is a ''multiple''. Unrelated look-alikes whose resemblance parallels that of twins are referred to as doppelgängers. Statistics The human twin birth rate in the United States rose 76% from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fit For A King
''Fit for a King'' is a 1937 American film starring Joe E. Brown and directed by Edward Sedgwick. Plot summary Newspaper reporter " Scoops" (Brown) is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio (Harry Davenport). Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton (Helen Mack) who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince. The film ends with a wild chase and a shootout with machine guns. The question is, who will survive to tell the tale? Cast *Joe E. Brown as Virgil Ambrose Jeremiah Christopher 'Scoop' Jones *Helen Mack as Jane Hamilton / Princess Helen * Paul Kelly as Briggs *Harry Davenport as Archduke Julio *Halliwell Hobbes as Count Strunsky *John Qualen as Otto *Donald Briggs as Prince Michael *Frank Reicher as Kurtz *Russell Hicks as Editor Hardwick *Charles Trowbridge Charles Sila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin. * January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history, where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction. * January 31 – The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association is f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arch Of Triumph (1948 Film)
''Arch of Triumph'' is a 1948 American romantic war drama film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Charles Laughton. It is based on the 1945 novel '' Arch of Triumph'' by Erich Maria Remarque, which he wrote during his nine-year exile in the United States. Plot Pre-World War II Paris is crowded with illegal refugees, trying to evade deportation. One of them is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally under a false name, helping other refugees. He saves Joan Madou from committing suicide after the sudden death of her lover. They become involved, but he is deported and she becomes the mistress of Alex, a very wealthy man. Ravic eventually returns, still seeking revenge against the Nazi officer, von Haake, who tortured Ravic's beloved to death. Von Haake is in Paris, in civilian dress, for some unknown, sinister purpose. On September 1, 1939, Germany invades Poland. Two days later, Britain and France declare war on Germany. Ravic kills v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enchanted Lake (film)
Enchanted Lake is a lake of Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada, in the southeastern part of the country, 1,000 km east of the capital Ottawa. Enchanted Lake is 48 meters above sea level. The highest point nearby is 84 meters above sea level, 1.0 km east of Enchanted Lake. It is densely populated around Enchanted Lake, with 1,056 inhabitants per square kilometre. Average annual temperature in the neighbourhood is 7 °C . The warmest month is August, when the average temperature is 20 °C, and the coldest is January, about -6 °C. Average annual rain is 1,826 mm. The rainy month is December, with an average of 299 mm rainfall, and the driest is May, with 84 mm rainfall. See also *List of lakes in Nova Scotia This is a list of lakes in Nova Scotia. Cape Breton Island All Four Counties * Bras d'Or Lake Cape Breton Regional Municipality * Anse aux Cannes Pond * The Barachois *Bear Cove Pond * Bear Gulch Ponds * Beave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Private Affairs Of Bel Ami
''The Private Affairs of Bel Ami'' is a 1947 American drama film directed by Albert Lewin. The film stars George Sanders as a ruthless cad who uses women to rise in Parisian society, co-starring Angela Lansbury and Ann Dvorak. It is based on the 1885 Guy de Maupassant novel ''Bel Ami''. The film had a 1946 premiere in Paris, Texas. The score is by Darius Milhaud. Plot In Paris in 1880, Georges Duroy, an ex-soldier working as a poorly paid clerk, encounters his former comrade-in-arms, sickly journalist Charles Forestier. Rachel, already rebuffed once by Georges, sits down at their cafe table. After Georges rudely dismisses her, Charles tells him the quickest way to better himself in Paris is by using his charms on women. Charles then suggests he seek a vacancy at his newspaper, ''La Vie Française'', despite having no writing experience. Georges then takes Charles' advice and goes to Rachel. He meets widow Clotilde de Marelle at a dinner party hosted by Charles and his wife. Charle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Night In Casablanca
''A Night in Casablanca'' is a 1946 film starring the Marx Brothers: (Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx and Chico Marx). The picture was directed by Archie Mayo, and written by Joseph Fields and Roland Kibbee. The film also features The Three Stooges supporting actors Philip Van Zandt, Ethelreda Leopold, Eugene Borden and Harry Semels and actress and singer Lisette Verea in her final film with the Marxes. The villain is portrayed by Sig Ruman, who had roles in the earlier Marx Brothers films '' A Night at the Opera'' (1935) and '' A Day at the Races'' (1937). Plot Set in Casablanca shortly after World War II, escaped Nazi war criminal Heinrich Stubel has steadily murdered three managers of the Hotel Casablanca. Disguised as a Count Pfefferman, Stubel's goal is to reclaim the stolen art treasures that he has hidden in the hotel. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Southerner (film)
''The Southerner'' is a 1945 American drama film directed by Jean Renoir and based on the 1941 novel ''Hold Autumn in Your Hand'' by George Sessions Perry. The film received Oscar nominations for Best Director (the only Oscar nomination Renoir received), Original Music Score, and Sound. Renoir was named Best Director by the National Board of Review, which also named the film the third best of 1945. The film portrays the hardships of a poor family struggling to establish a cotton farm in Texas in the early 1940s. Plot The film opens with a Texas sharecropper, Sam Tucker, picking cotton in a sunbaked field alongside his wife Nona and his elderly Uncle Pete. Pete suddenly collapses due to the extreme heat and to what he blames as "my darned old heart". Before he dies, he tells his nephew, "Work for yourself; grow your own crops." Sam heeds his uncle's advice, so Nona, their children Daisy and Jot, "Granny", and he leave the migrant camp and set out to work a vacant 68-acre tenant f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Moon And Sixpence (film)
''The Moon and Sixpence'' is a 1942 film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1919 novel of the same name, which was in part based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. Dimitri Tiomkin was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Two versions were filmed. In one, Devi Wani, a Javanese actress, played Ata; in the other, Ms. Verdugo played her, to accommodate audiences for whom marriage between a Polynesian and an Englishman was considered unacceptable. Plot Geoffrey Wolfe, a writer similar to Maugham, tells the story of Charles Strickland. A mediocre, seemingly unassuming London stockbroker, Strickland suddenly gives up his career, wife of 17 years, and children and moves to Paris. Mrs. Strickland asks Wolfe to bring him back. To Wolfe's surprise, Strickland has not run away with another woman (as he had been told), but because Strickland feels compelled to become a painter. He exhibits no remorse or shame about abandoning his fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So Ends Our Night
''So Ends Our Night'' is a 1941 drama directed by John Cromwell and starring Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan and Glenn Ford. The screenplay was adapted by Talbot Jennings from the novel ''Flotsam'' by German exile Erich Maria Remarque, who rose to international fame for his first novel, ''All Quiet on the Western Front''. Plot In 1937 Austria, Josef Steiner, a middle-aged German veteran who escaped from a concentration camp two years ago, and Ludwig Kern, a 19-year-old German from a prosperous family with Jewish blood, are picked up by the police. Lacking passports, they face deportation. Brenner, a German agent whom Steiner knows, offers him a passport in exchange for the names of the friends who helped him escape the camp, but Steiner demurs. Steiner and Kern share a jail cell with other prisoners, including the Chicken, the Pole and a professional gambler/pickpocket who is proud of his "full rights of citizenship." Steiner studies the gambler's card tricks and also befriends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flirting With Fate (1938 Film)
''Flirting with Fate'' is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Frank McDonald and written by Joseph Moncure March, Charlie Melson and Ethel La Blanche. The film stars Joe E. Brown, Leo Carrillo, Beverly Roberts, Wynne Gibson, Steffi Duna, Charles Judels and Stanley Fields. The film was released on December 2, 1938, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot Cast *Joe E. Brown as Dan Dixon *Leo Carrillo as Sancho Ramirez *Beverly Roberts as Patricia Lane *Wynne Gibson as Bertha *Steffi Duna as Carlita *Charles Judels as Don Luis Garcia * Stanley Fields as Fernando *Leonid Kinskey as Pedro Lopez * Chrispin Martin as Solado *Inez Palange as Señora Lopez *Irene Franklin as Hattie *Jay Novello as Manuel Del Valle *George Humbert as Del Rio *Lew Kelly as Herbie *Phillip Trent as Larry * Ann Hovey as Ida *Dick Botiller as Renaldo *Carlos Villarías Carlos Villarías (7 July 1892 – 27 April 1976) was a Spanish actor who was born in Córdoba, Spain, and died in California, United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gladiator (1938 Film)
''The Gladiator'' is a 1938 American comedy and fantasy film starring Joe E. Brown, Dickie Moore and June Travis. The movie is an adaptation of Philip Gordon Wylie's 1930 novel ''Gladiator'', which is often credited with having influenced the creation of Superman. Plot A man returns to college and is talked into joining the football team. He is a real joke on the team, until he is given a drug that gives him super strength. After the formula from Professor Danner turns him into a campus hero, Hugo Kipp enters a wrestling ring against Man Mountain Dean to raise money for an orphanage. He finds out too late that the serum is only temporary, losing his strength with the match in progress. Only a few lucky moves enable Hugo to win the match. Cast ;Main cast *Joe E. Brown - Hugo Kipp * Dickie Moore - Bobby *Man Mountain Dean - Himself *June Travis - Iris Bennett *Lucien Littlefield - Professor Danner *Ethel Wales - Mrs. Danner * Robert Kent - Tom Dixon * Donald Douglas - Coach Robbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
