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Donald Curtis
Donald Curtis (born Curtis D. Rudolf; February 27, 1915 – May 22, 1997) was an American actor who had roles in dozens of films and television series. Biography Curtis was born in Spokane, Washington, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. Rudolph. Before he began acting in films, he taught at Northwestern University, Allegheny College, and Duquesne University. Curtis's early acting experience included work at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. He also was in two Broadway plays, ''Caribbean Carnival'' (1947) and ''Anybody Home'' (1949). In the summer of 1950, Curtis portrayed Adam Conway in the comedy '' Detective's Wife'' on CBS television. Curtis resumed using his birth name when he became a religious leader. As Curtis D. Rudolf, he ministered in the First Church of Religious Science in New York City before he became leader-director of the Church of Religious Science in Philadelphia. He also was pastor of the Church of Religious Science in Santa Barbara, California and the Firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Amazing Mr
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe
''Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe'' is a 1940 American black-and-white science fiction 12-chapter movie serial from Universal Pictures, produced by Henry MacRae and co-directed by Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor. The serial stars Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles B. Middleton, Frank Shannon, and Roland Drew. It was written by George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey, and Barry Shipman and was adapted from Alex Raymond's syndicated newspaper comic strip of the same name from King Features Syndicate. Shown theatrically in 12 separate weekly "chapters", it was the last of the three Universal Flash Gordon serials made between 1936 and 1940. During the 1950s, all three Flash Gordon serials were syndicated to television by Motion Pictures for Television, along with many of Universal's other serial output. To avoid confusion with the imported Flash Gordon TV series airing around the same time, they were retitled ''Space Soldiers'', ''Space Soldiers' Trip to Mars'', and ''Space Soldiers Conq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Son Of Davy Crockett
''The Son of Davy Crockett'' is a 1941 American Western film written and directed by Lambert Hillyer. The film stars Wild Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, Dub Taylor, Kenneth MacDonald, Richard Fiske and Eddy Waller. The film was released on July 15, 1941, by Columbia Pictures. Plot Cast *Wild Bill Elliott as Dave Crockett *Iris Meredith as Doris Mathews *Dub Taylor as Cannonball * Kenneth MacDonald as King Canfield *Richard Fiske as Jesse Gordon *Eddy Waller as Grandpa Mathews *Donald Curtis as Jack Ringe *Paul Scardon as Zeke * Edmund Cobb as Lance *Steve Clark as Curly *Harrison Greene as President Ulysses S. Grant *Lloyd Bridges as Sammy *Stanley Brown as Clint *Eddie Laughton as Burns *Martin Garralaga as Lopez *Francis Sayles Francis Sayles (November 22, 1891 – March 19, 1944) was an American character actor at the beginning of the sound film era. In the short dozen years of his career he appeared in over 100 films, most of them features. While he was normally . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Criminals Within
''Criminals Within'' (also issued as ''Army Mystery'') is a 1941 American drama film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Eric Linden, Ben Alexander and Donald Curtis. It was released on June 27, 1941. Cast list * Eric Linden as Corporal Greg Carroll * Ben Alexander as Sergeant Paul * Donald Curtis as Lieutenant Harmon * Ann Doran as Linda * Constance Worth as Alma Barton * Weldon Heyburn as Sergeant Blake * Dudley Dickerson as Sam Dillingham * Bernice Pilot as Mamie * Ray Erlenborn Ray Erlenborn (January 21, 1915 – June 4, 2007) was an American vaudevillian actor and sound effects artist. He is also known to audiences as the voice of Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons. Also did sound effects for Carol Bu ... as Private Norton * I. Stanford Jolley as Carl Flegler References External links * * American drama films 1941 drama films 1941 films American black-and-white films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films {{1940s-dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hands Across The Rockies
''Hands Across the Rockies'' is a 1941 American Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Bill Elliott. Plot Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott) and Cannonball (Dub Taylor) help two young people in love (Mary Daily and Stanley Brown) and bring the murderer ( Kenneth MacDonald) of Cannonball's father to justice. Cast * Bill Elliott as Wild Bill Hickok * Mary Daily as Marsha Crawley * Dub Taylor as Cannonball Taylor * Kenneth MacDonald as Juneau Jessup * Frank LaRue as Rufe Crawley * Donald Curtis as Dade Crawley * Tom Moray as Hi Crawley * Stanley Brown as Johnny Peale * Slim Whitaker as Marshal Bemis * Harrison Greene as Abel Finney * Art Mix as Red - Henchman * Eddy Waller as Judge Plunkett * Hugh Prosser Hugh Prosser (March 2, 1907 – November 8, 1952) was a Hollywood actor who appeared in over 90 films between 1936 and 1953. A native of Illinois, Prosser was a versatile supporting performer particularly adept at playing unscrupulous villain ... as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Missing Girls
''City of Missing Girls'' is a 1941 American film directed by Elmer Clifton. Plot The police led by Captain McVeigh and the Assistant District Attorney James J. Horton are baffled by the disappearances of several young girls with some being found dead. Intrepid female newspaper reporter Nora Page's investigations reveal a link between the girls and the Crescent School of Fine Arts owned by gangster King Peterson, who is using the school as a front for a recruiting center for his nightclub "entertainers". Things become more complex when Nora's father is connected with Peterson and her boyfriend James Horton is photographed in embarrassing circumstances with a woman found murdered after the photo was taken. Cast *H. B. Warner as Police Capt. "Mac" McVeigh *Astrid Allwyn as Nora Page *John Archer (actor), John Archer as Assistant D.A. James J. Horton *Sarah Padden as Mrs. Randolph *Philip Van Zandt as King Peterson *George Rosener as Police Officer 'Copper' Dugan *Kathryn Crawfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Evidence
Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is kept hidden is known as the secret. Secrecy is often controversial, depending on the content or nature of the secret, the group or people keeping the secret, and the motivation for secrecy. Secrecy by government entities is often decried as excessive or in promotion of poor operation; excessive revelation of information on individuals can conflict with virtues of privacy and confidentiality. It is often contrasted with Transparency (social), social transparency. Secrecy can exist in a number of different ways: encoding or encryption (where mathematical and technical strategies are used to hide messages), true secrecy (where restrictions are put upon those who take part of the message, such as through Classified information, government security classification) and obfuscation, where secrets are hidd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas Rangers Ride Again
''Texas Rangers Ride Again'' is a 1940 American Western film directed by James P. Hogan, written by William R. Lipman and Horace McCoy, and starring Ellen Drew, John Howard, Akim Tamiroff, May Robson, Broderick Crawford, Charley Grapewin, and John Miljan. It was released on December 13, 1940, by Paramount Pictures. It was a sequel to '' The Texas Rangers''. Plot Ellen Dangerfield returns to her grandparents' ranch in Texas after a 10-year absence when her widowed grandmother Cecilia Dangerfield loses 3000 head of cattle to rustlers. Fed up with her grandson Carter's unwillingness to track down the thieves, Cecilia appeals to her old beau, Ben Caldwalder, of the Texas Rangers, for help. To infiltrate the rustlers, Ranger Jim Kingston poses as an outlaw known as the Pecos Kid, and is hired by Joe Yuma, who owns the packing company. There, Jim learns that Joe has been slaughtering Dangerfield cattle and disposing their carcasses in a lime pit. With his partner, Mace Townsley, Jim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Son Of Monte Cristo
''The Son of Monte Cristo'' is a 1940 American black-and-white swashbuckling adventure film from United Artists, produced by Edward Small, directed by Rowland V. Lee, that stars Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, and George Sanders. The Small production uses the same sets and many of the same cast and production crew as his previous year's production of '' The Man in the Iron Mask''. Hayward returned to star in Small's ''The Return of Monte Cristo'' (1946). The film takes the same name as the unofficial sequel to ''The Count of Monte Cristo'', namely ''The Son of Monte Cristo'', written by Jules Lermina in 1881. Using elements from several romantic swashbucklers of the time such as ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' and '' The Mark of Zorro'' the production also mirrors the situation of Continental Europe in 1939–1940. Plot In 1865, the proletarian General Gurko Lanen (George Sanders) becomes the behind-the-scenes dictator of the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg located in the Balkans. Gurko s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take Me Back To Oklahoma
''Take Me Back to Oklahoma'' is a 1940 American Western film directed by Albert Herman and starring Tex Ritter, Karl Hackett and Bob Wills. Plot Cast Soundtrack * "Village Blacksmith" (by Lew Porter and Johnny Lange) * "Kalamity Kate" (by Lew Porter and Johnny Lange) * "You Are My Sunshine" (by Jimmie Davis with Charles Mitchell's Orchestra) * "Good Old Oklahoma" (by Bob Wills James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, he was known widely as the King of Western Swing (although S ...) * "Take Me Back To Tulsa" (by Bob Wills) * "Going Indian" (by Bob Wills) * "Lone Star Rag" (by Bob Wills) * "Bob Wills Special" (by Bob Wills) External links * * 1940 films American black-and-white films 1940 Western (genre) films Monogram Pictures films American Western (genre) films Films directed by Albert Herman 1940s English-languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North West Mounted Police (film)
''North West Mounted Police'' is a 1940 American epic-western film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll. Written by Alan Le May, Jesse Lasky Jr., and C. Gardner Sullivan, and based on the 1938 novel ''The Royal Canadian Mounted Police'' by R. C. Fetherstonhaugh, the film is about a Texas Ranger who joins forces with the North-West Mounted Police to put down a rebellion in the north-west prairies of Canada. The supporting cast features Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster, Robert Preston, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney Jr. and George Bancroft. Regis Toomey, Richard Denning, Rod Cameron, and Robert Ryan make brief appearances in the film playing small roles. ''North West Mounted Police'' was DeMille's first film in Technicolor. The film premiered on October 21, 1940 in Regina, Saskatchewan, and was released in the United States on October 22, 1940 by Paramount Pictures. The film received an Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Anne Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knute Rockne All American
''Knute Rockne, All American'' is a 1940 American biographical film that tells the story of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's legendary football coach. It stars Pat O'Brien as Rockne and Ronald Reagan as player George Gipp, as well as Gale Page, Donald Crisp, Albert Bassermann, Owen Davis Jr., Nick Lukats, Kane Richmond, William Marshall and William Byrne. The film also includes cameos by legendary football coaches "Pop" Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg, William H. Spaulding and Howard Jones, playing themselves. Reagan's presidential campaign revived interest in the film, and as a result, some reporters called him the Gipper. The movie was written by Robert Buckner and directed by Lloyd Bacon, who replaced William K. Howard after filming had begun. In 1997, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Plot Lars Knutson Rockne, a carriage builder, moves his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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