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Frank Magee
Frank Magee (May 14, 1889 – February 19, 1971) was an American film editor. Partial filmography * ''Alias the Doctor'' (1932) * '' The Singer of Naples'' (1935) * ''Smart Blonde'' (1937) * '' Dance, Charlie, Dance'' (1937) * '' The Adventurous Blonde'' (1937) * '' Nancy Drew, Detective'' (1938) * '' Over the Wall'' (1938) * ''Broadway Musketeers'' (1938) * '' Mystery House'' (1938) * ''Mr. Bill'' (1938) * ''Smashing the Money Ring'' (1939) * '' Sweepstakes Winner'' (1939) * ''Everybody's Hobby'' (1939) * ''Devil's Island'' (1939) * ''Calling All Husbands'' (1940) * '' Murder in the Air'' (1940) * '' Always a Bride'' (1940) * ''Father is a Prince'' (1940) * '' Money and the Woman'' (1940) * '' Father's Son'' (1941) * '' International Squadron'' (1941) * '' You're in the Army Now'' (1941) * '' Strange Alibi'' (1941) * ''Across the Pacific'' (1942) * '' I Was Framed'' (1942) * ''You Can't Escape Forever'' (1942) * '' The Desert Song'' (1943) * ''Christmas in Connecticut'' (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alias The Doctor
''Alias the Doctor'' is a 1932 pre-Code American drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Richard Barthelmess and Marian Marsh. The story concerns a man who assumes his dead brother's identity and becomes a renowned surgeon despite not having completed medical school. Plot Cast * Richard Barthelmess as Karl Brenner * Marian Marsh as Lotti Brenner * Norman Foster as Stephan Brenner * Adrienne Dore as Anna * Lucille La Verne as Martha Brenner, Karl's foster mother (as Lucille LaVerne) * Oscar Apfel as Keller * John St. Polis as Dr. Niergardt * George Rosener as Dr. Franz von Bergman * Boris Karloff as a surgeon (scene edited from film by the censors) Background The film's original script involved a playboy medical student who performs an unspecified operation on his girlfriend before earning his medical degree. The girl dies from the botched operation and his foster brother takes the blame. The Hays Office objected because it believed that audiences wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Money And The Woman
''Money and the Woman'' is a 1940 American drama film directed by William K. Howard and written by Robert Presnell Sr.. The film stars Jeffrey Lynn, Brenda Marshall, John Litel, Lee Patrick, Henry O'Neill and Roger Pryor. The film was released by Warner Bros. on August 17, 1940. Plot Cast *Jeffrey Lynn as Dave Bennett *Brenda Marshall as Barbara Patteson *John Litel as Jeremy 'Jerry ' Helm * Lee Patrick as Miss Martha Church *Henry O'Neill as Mr. Mason *Roger Pryor as Charles 'Charlie' Patteson *Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Mr. Adler *Henry Kolker as Mr. Rollins * William Gould as Chief Detective Dyer * Edward Keane as Mr. Kaiser *William Marshall as Bank Clerk *Peter Ashley as Bank Teller * Mildred Coles as Secretary at Bank *Sandra Stephenson as Jeannie Patteson *Willie Best William Best (May 27, 1913 – February 27, 1962), known professionally as Willie Best or Sleep n' Eat, was an American television and film actor. Best was one of the first African America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whiplash (1948 Film)
''Whiplash'' is a 1948 American film noir directed by Lewis Seiler and written by Kenneth Earl, Harriet Frank Jr., Maurice Geraghty and Gordon Kahn. The film stars Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott and Eve Arden. Plot The film opens with a middle-weight bout in Madison Square Garden, New York City, where Mike Angelo battles a seemingly superior opponent. He's going down for the count when he's saved by the bell. Cut to Mike Gordon, a happy-go-lucky painter in California, upset that cafe owner Sam has let customer Laurie Rogers buy a painting hanging on the wall. Mike is unsatisfied with his work and confronts Laurie to get it back. She convinces him it's good if not perfect, so Mike invites her to dinner. After a romantic dinner and swim in the ocean, they've got a date for breakfast. When a shady character enters Sam's cafe, Laurie abruptly leaves town. At her hotel, Mike sees the painting wrapped and addressed to Dr. Vincent, New York City. Sam gives Mike money to go to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Learn (1947 Film)
''Love and Learn'' is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Frederick de Cordova and written by Eugene Conrad, I. A. L. Diamond and Francis Swann (from a story by Harry Sauber). The film stars Jack Carson, Robert Hutton, Martha Vickers, Janis Paige, and Otto Kruger. The film was released by Warner Bros. on May 2, 1947. Plot Frustrated because they cannot get their songs published, Jingles Collins and Bob Grant decide to leave New York City and return home. On one last night out on the town, joined by Jingles' sweetheart Jackie, they encounter Barbara Wyngate, mistaking her for a dance hostess when she is actually a wealthy young heiress. Barbara keeps her identity a secret after falling for Bob and pays to have a song published. With assistance from her father, she also gives expensive gifts. Bob at first suspects her to be some kind of kleptomaniac, then spots her father with her and angrily assumes Barbara is a mistress of a much older man. Refusing to listen to her explan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beast With Five Fingers
''The Beast with Five Fingers'' is a 1946 mystery horror film directed by Robert Florey from a screenplay by Curt Siodmak, based on a short story written by W. F. Harvey and first published in 1919 in ''The New Decameron''. The film stars Robert Alda, Victor Francen, Andrea King, and Peter Lorre. The film's score was composed by Max Steiner. Plot Francis Ingram is a noted pianist who lives in a large manor house in Italy. Ingram suffered a stroke which left his right side immobile, and he has to use a wheelchair to get around. He has retreated to the manor house for the past few years, where he lives with his nurse, Julie Holden; his secretary and astrologist Hilary Cummins; a friend, Bruce Conrad; and his sister's son, Donald Arlington. Holden and Conrad are secretly in love. Holden plans to leave Ingram's service and return to America, but wants to talk it over with Ingram first. Conrad wants her to instead leave immediately, feeling that caring for Ingram is sapping her vit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danger Signal
''Danger Signal'' is a 1945 film noir starring Faye Emerson and Zachary Scott. The screenplay was adapted from the 1939 novel of the same name by Phyllis Bottome. Plot A mysterious pulp writer—and psychopath—named Ronnie Mason, steals a dead woman's wedding ring and money and leaves a fake suicide note. The woman's husband, Thomas Turner, when questioned by the local police, believes his dead wife might have been seeing Mason behind his back. He also believes his wife was murdered, but in the absence of other evidence, the police list it as a suicide and drop the case. Mason leaves town, changes his name to Marsh and, displaying a noticeable limp he acquired jumping from the dead woman's bedroom window and a veteran's pin he steals from a fellow passenger on the L.A. bus, passes himself off as a wounded veteran and rents a room in a house Mrs. Fenchurch shares with her elder daughter Hilda, a public stenographer, and the teenaged Anne. All three women are extremely impress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas In Connecticut
''Christmas in Connecticut'' is a 1945 American Christmas romantic comedy film about an unmarried city magazine writer who pretends to be a farm wife and mother and then falls in love with a returning war hero. The film was directed by English director Peter Godfrey and stars Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan and Sydney Greenstreet. Plot Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) is a single New Yorker, employed as a food writer. Her articles about her fictitious Connecticut farm, husband, and baby are admired by housewives across the country. Her publisher, Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet), is unaware of the charade and insists that Elizabeth host a Christmas dinner for returning war hero Jefferson Jones ( Dennis Morgan), who read all of her recipes while in the hospital and is so fond of them that his nurse/fiancée Mary Lee (Joyce Compton), wrote a letter to the publisher. Facing a career-ending scandal, not only for herself but for her editor, Dudley Beecham (Robert Shayne), L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Desert Song (1943 Film)
''The Desert Song'' is a 1943 American musical film. It was directed by Robert Florey and starred Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning and Bruce Cabot. It is based on the 1926 operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction ( Charles Novi, Jack McConaghy). This film version of the operetta was, like the 1929 film version, almost never seen after its original release due to content and copyright issues, which made the film hard to find or view. In 2014, it was remastered, restored and released on DVD by Warner Brothers. The film is more sophisticated technically than the earlier film due to its large budget and advances in both sound and color. This is the first film version to be made in full three-strip Technicolor. It tries to make the operetta topical in terms of World War II, by having the outlaw hero with a dual identity fight the Nazis as well as the Riffs. As in the 1953 film, the hero's name is changed to El Khobar, rath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Can't Escape Forever
''You Can't Escape Forever'' is a 1942 American drama film directed by Jo Graham and written by Fred Niblo, Jr. and Hector Chevigny. The film stars George Brent, Brenda Marshall, Gene Lockhart, Roscoe Karns, Eduardo Ciannelli and Paul Harvey. The film was released by Warner Bros. on October 10, 1942. Plot Cast * George Brent as Steve Mitchell *Brenda Marshall as Laurie Abbott *Gene Lockhart as Carl Robelink *Roscoe Karns as 'Mac' McTurk *Eduardo Ciannelli as Boss Greer *Paul Harvey as Maj. Turner *Edith Barrett Edith Barrett (born Edith Barrett Williams; January 19, 1907 – February 22, 1977) was an American actress. She was a romantic star on Broadway and in the Little Theatre Movement in New England summer stock from the mid-1920s to the late 1930s ... as Madame Lucille References External links * 1942 films 1940s English-language films Warner Bros. films American drama films 1942 drama films American black-and-white films Films scored by Adolph Deuts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Was Framed
''I Was Framed'' is a 1942 American crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman. According to Warner Bros records the film earned $159,000 domestically and $90,000 foreign. Plot summary Cast * Tod Andrews as Ken Marshall (Scott) (as Michael Ames) * Julie Bishop as Ruth Marshall (Scott) * Regis Toomey as Bob Leeds * Diana Hale as Penny Marshall (Scott) (as Patty Hale) * John Harmon as Clubby Blake * Aldrich Bowker as Dr. Phillip Black * Roland Drew as Dist. Atty. Gordon Locke * Oscar O'Shea as Cal Beamish * Wade Boteler as Ben Belden * Howard C. Hickman as Stuart Gaines (as Howard Hickman) * Norman Willis as Paul Brenner * Hobart Bosworth as D.L. Wallace * Guy Usher as Springfield Police Chief Taylor * Sam McDaniel Samuel Rufus McDaniel (January 28, 1886September 24, 1962)Tanner, Beccy (November 7, 1991)"McDaniel Opened Doors; 'Gone With the Wind' Was Actress' Most Famous Film" ''The Wichita Eagle''. Retrieved January 3, 2021. was an American actor who ap ... as Kit Carson, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Across The Pacific
''Across the Pacific'' is a 1942 American spy film set on the eve of the entry of the United States into World War II. It was directed first by John Huston, then by Vincent Sherman after Huston joined the United States Army Signal Corps. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet. Despite the title, the action never progresses across the Pacific, concluding in Panama. The original script portrayed an attempt to avert a Japanese plan to invade Pearl Harbor. When the real-life attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, production was shut down for three months, resuming on March 2, 1942 with a revised script changing the target to Panama. The screenplay by Richard Macauley was an adaptation of a ''Saturday Evening Post'' serial by Robert Carson, “Aloha Means Goodbye”, published June 28–July 26, 1941. Warner Bros. used the same title for a 1926 silent adventure film starring Monte Blue, who has a small role in this picture. However, the plots of the two films have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Alibi
''Strange Alibi'' is a 1941 American crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman, written by Kenneth Gamet, Leslie T. White and Fred Niblo Jr., and starring Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry, Jonathan Hale, John Ridgely, Florence Bates and Charles Trowbridge. It was released by Warner Bros. on April 19, 1941. Plot After a witness is shot and a suspect hanged in a jail cell, Police Chief Sprague decides to send Sgt. Joe Geary undercover, looking for a mysterious crime-syndicate boss responsible for ordering these murders. A story is planted by the chief that Geary is being suspended from the force, in order to help him infiltrate the mob. Geary discovers that a police captain is the criminal mastermind. Sprague is killed, though, and Geary framed when nobody believes his story about being undercover. While jailed, his fiancée Alice Devlin works to clear his name. Geary breaks out of jail and personally goes to the reform-minded governor to prove his innocence. Cast * Arthur Kennedy as Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |