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Douglas Evans (actor)
Douglas Evans (January 26, 1904 – March 25, 1968) was an American actor, known for ''At War with the Army'' (1950), ''King of the Rocket Men'' (1949), and ''I Saw What You Did'' (1965). Biography Evans was born in Madison, Virginia.Resting Places: The Burial Places of 14,000 Famous Persons, by Scott Wilson In 1931, he joined the staff of WABC radio in New York as an announcer. Before that, he was an announcer at WMCA, also in New York, and was chief announcer at WGH in Virginia. He died on March 25, 1968, in Hollywood, California. He is interred in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Selected filmography * '' Public Cowboy No. 1'' (1937) - Radio Announcer (uncredited) * ''Young Fugitives'' (1938) - Announcer (uncredited) * ''Dick Tracy Returns'' (1938) - Mr. Burke (uncredited) * ''Hold That Co-ed'' (1938) - Announcer of State-Louisiana Game (uncredited) * ''Society Smugglers'' (1939) - Radio Announcer (uncredited) * ''They Asked for It'' (1939) - Radio Announcer (uncredited) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Affairs Of Jimmy Valentine
''The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine'' is a 1942 American comedy crime film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring Dennis O'Keefe, Ruth Terry, and Gloria Dickson. The film is also known as ''Unforgotten Crime'' (American TV title) and ''Find Jimmy Valentine''. The original film was cut to 53 minutes due to its B-movie billing and later for television. The film was based on the 1910 play, '' Alias Jimmy Valentine'', by Paul Armstrong. Plot To boost listener ratings, radio personality Mike Jason (Dennis O'Keefe) encourages sponsors, of his murder mystery radio show, to offer a reward to anyone who can locate safe cracker Jimmy Valentine, who is reportedly retired. The reward for the person who finds the legendary gentleman burglar is set to $10,000. There's little tough guy Mousey ( George Stone), who becomes over zealous over the possibility of winning the reward. Valentine is rumored to have thrown down his hat in a picturesque small town called Fernville in Illinois. Jason and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Society Smugglers
''Society Smugglers'' is a 1939 American crime film directed by Joe May and starring Preston Foster, Irene Hervey and Walter Woolf King.Monaco p.364 It was made and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film sets were designed by the art director Jack Otterson. Cast * Preston Foster as Sully * Irene Hervey as Joan Martin * Walter Woolf King as Massey * Frank Jenks as Emery * Fred Keating as Larry Kearns * Regis Toomey as Johnny Beebe * Frances Robinson as Mary Larson * Raymond Parker as Ames * Clay Clement as Harrison * Doris Rankin as Miss Wexley * Harry Hayden as Dr. Lee * Frank Reicher as Jones * Milburn Stone as Peter Garfield * Jack Norton as Prentis * Michael Mark as Rug Merchant * George Lynn as Austin * Eddie Acuff as Radio Expert * Mary Field as Secretary * James Baker as Plainclothesman * Frank Bischell as Newsboy * Heinie Conklin as Mailman * Kernan Cripps as Detective * Robert Darrell as Radio Technician * Edward Earle as C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Tracy Vs Crime Inc
''Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc.'' (1941) is a Republic Pictures, Republic Movie serial based on the Dick Tracy comic strip. It was directed by the team of William Witney and John W English, John English with Ralph Byrd reprising his role from the earlier serials. It was the last of the four Dick Tracy serials produced by Republic, although Ralph Byrd went on to portray the character again in two features and on television. Plotline Dick Tracy and his allies find themselves up against a villain known as ''The Ghost'', with the impossible ability of becoming invisible. Cast Main cast *Ralph Byrd as Dick Tracy *Michael Owen as Bil Carr *Jan Wiley as June 'Eve' Chandler *John Davidson (actor), John Davidson as Lucifer *Ralph Morgan as J.P. Morton/the Ghost Supporting Cast *Kenneth Harlan as Police Lt Cosgrove *John Dilson as Henry Weldon *Howard C. Hickman as Stephen Chandler *Robert Frazer as Daniel Brewster *Robert Fiske (actor), Robert Fiske as Walter Cabot *Jack Mulhall as Jim Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailors On Leave
''Sailors on Leave'' is a 1941 American musical film directed by Albert S. Rogell and written by Art Arthur and Malcolm Stuart Boylan. The film stars William Lundigan, Shirley Ross, Chick Chandler, Ruth Donnelly, Mae Clarke and Cliff Nazarro. The film was released on September 30, 1941, by Republic Pictures. Plot Chuck Stephens is fooled by his sailor pals Swifty and Mike into believing (and betting on) that if he marries by his 27th birthday, he will inherit $25,000. With only days to go before his deadline, a frantic Chuck is taken to Aunt Navy's nightclub in San Pedro, California and introduced to singer Linda Hall, making a bad first impression. Linda eventually grows more interested in Chuck, but ends up arrested after a bracelet he gives her as a gift turns out to be stolen. Chuck considers marrying other women rounded up by the guys, but realizes he loves Linda after all. He marries her after the deadline, but unexpectedly gets a $5,000 reward for recovering the stolen br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parachute Battalion
''Parachute Battalion'' is a 1941 war film directed by Leslie Goodwins and stars Robert Preston and Nancy Kelly. The supporting cast includes Edmond O'Brien, Harry Carey, and Buddy Ebsen. Plot Three men enlist in the United States Army in the summer of 1941. Bill Burke (Edmond O'Brien) is doubtful of his own courage and enlists while intoxicated. Don Morse ( Robert Preston), an All-American football player at Harvard, enlists to avoid being engaged to two women simultaneously, told that army privates are not allowed to marry. Jeff Hollis (Buddy Ebsen) is a hillbilly cajoled into enlisting by the daughter of a feuding family. They meet on the train to Fort Benning, Georgia, for training as parachute infantry. Don and Bill's attempts to become better acquainted with pretty fellow passenger Kit Richards (Nancy Kelly) annoy her father, Bill "Old Thunderhead" Richards (Harry Carey), until they reveal that they are Army recruits. In camp, they are surprised to discover that Richards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway West
''Highway West'' is a 1941 American crime film directed by William C. McGann and starring Brenda Marshall, Arthur Kennedy and William Lundigan. It is a remake of the 1934 film ''Heat Lightning''.Goble p.1 The film's sets were designed by the art director Esdras Hartley Esdras Hartley (1892–1946) was the art director for the 1935 film Don't Bet on Blondes. He worked on over a hundred films during his career, many of them at the Hollywood studio Warner Brothers. Selected filmography * ''Miss Pacific Fleet'' (1 .... Synopsis A woman discovers that her apparently respectable businessmen husband is in fact a notorious bank robber. Cast References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1941 films 1941 crime films American crime films Films directed by William C. McGann Warner Bros. films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films {{crime-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Many Blondes
''Too Many Blondes'' is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Rudy Vallee, Helen Parrish and Lon Chaney Jr. Creighton Tull Chaney (February10, 1906 – July12, 1973), known by his stage name Lon Chaney Jr., was an American actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the film '' The Wolf Man'' (1941) and its various crossovers, Count Alucard (Dra ...Smith p.81 Plot Cast References Bibliography * Smith, Don G. ''Lon Chaney, Jr.: Horror Film Star, 1906-1973''. McFarland, 2004. External links * 1941 films 1941 musical comedy films American musical comedy films Films directed by Thornton Freeland Universal Pictures films Films scored by Frank Skinner American black-and-white films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films {{musical-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Made Monster
''Man-Made Monster'' is a 1941 American science-fiction horror film directed by George Waggner and produced by Jack Bernhard for Universal Pictures. Filmed in black-and-white, it stars Lon Chaney, Jr. (in his horror film debut) and Lionel Atwill. ''Man-Made Monster'' was re-released under various titles including ''Electric Man'' and ''The Mysterious Dr. R''. Realart Pictures re-released the film in 1953 under the title ''The Atomic Monster'' as a double feature with ''The Flying Saucer'' (1950). On the film's original main title, there is no hyphen; it's simply ''Man Made Monster''. The plot resembles '' The Invisible Ray'' (1936), '' The Walking Dead'' (1936), and two decades later ''Indestructible Man'' (1956); that much later feature starred Chaney but was not directly inspired by ''Man-Made Monster''. Plot A tragic accident occurs when a bus hits a high power line. The incident has claimed the lives of all on board, except for one Dan McCormick, who survives because he is, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play Girl (1941 Film)
''Play Girl'' is a 1941 romantic comedy film, starring Kay Francis as an aging gold digger who decides to pass on her skills to a young protégée, and featuring James Ellison, Mildred Coles, Nigel Bruce, Margaret Hamilton and Katherine Alexander. Plot Grace Herbert (Kay Francis) is a 30-something woman who has made her living from seducing wealthy men and suing them for breach of promise. At the end of her finances, she and her maid, Josie ( Margaret Hamilton) head to Miami where Grace hopes to find another rich man. When that plan falls through, she stumbles upon Ellen Daley ( Mildred Coles), a young lady who is looking for a job as a secretary. Instead, Grace decide to make the girl her protege and teach her how to make money leading older wealthier men on for money. They leave for Chicago, and on the way meet Tom Dice (James Ellison) when he fixes their flat tire. All they know is that he's a cowboy, and while Ellen is attracted to him, Grace dismisses him. Grace introduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of The Royal Mounted
''King of the Royal Mounted'' is an American comics series which debuted February 17, 1935 by Stephen Slesinger, based on popular Western writer Zane Grey's byline and marketed as ''Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted''. The series' protagonist is Dave King, a Canadian Mountie who always gets his man and who, over the course of the series, is promoted from Corporal to Sergeant. King has appeared in newspaper strips, comics, Big Little Books, and other ancillary items. Zane Grey's son Romer and Slesinger collaborated on many of the stories, and the artwork was produced by Allen Dean, Charles Flanders, and Jim Gary in Slesinger's New York studio. A movie serial A serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, gene ... was produced in 1942. Newspaper strip ''King of the Royal Mounted'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma Renegades
''Oklahoma Renegades'' is a 1940 American Western " Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by Nate Watt. Cast * Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke * Raymond Hatton as Rusty Joslin * Duncan Renaldo as Renaldo * Lee 'Lasses' White as Jim Keith * Florine McKinney as Marian Carter * William Ruhl as Mace Liscomb * Al Herman as Hank Blake * James Seay as Carl – Blind veteran * Eddie Dean as Veteran * Harold Daniels Harold Daniels was an actor and then a director of American films. He directed about 14 films. The 1958 ''Terror in the Haunted House'' he directed was the first to use the technique known as '' Psychorama''. Filmography Director *'' They Met in ... as Orv Liscomb * Jack Lescoulie as Veteran * Frosty Royce as Veteran Mort (as Frosty Royse) References External links * 1940 films 1940 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Republic Pictures films Three Mesquiteers films Films directed by Nate Watt 1940s Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Faces West
''Three Faces West'' is a 1940 American drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie and Charles Coburn. The film, mainly set in North Dakota was one of a handful of overtly anti-Nazi films produced by Hollywood before American entry into World War II. Isolationists and Nazi sympathizers condemned other Hollywood movies for being pro-British "propaganda" or for "glorifying war", however ''Three Faces West'' was deliberately crafted to celebrate the pioneer spirit of America, and the determination of Americans to survive the dust bowl, and contrasted these values with the evils of Nazism, thus preventing isolationists and Nazi sympathizers from being able to criticize the film as they had criticized other anti-Nazi films during this period. Writing in the ''Journal of Austrian-American History'', Jacqueline Vansant has argued that the film "takes a bold stand on contemporary issues through its Austrian-American romance." Plot Two refugees, the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |