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G. Pat Collins
G. Pat Collins, also known as George Pat Collins or Pat Collins (born George Percy Collins; December 16, 1895 – August 5, 1959) was an American actor of the stage and screen. Biography Collins was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1895. After serving in the United States Army during World War I, Collins began his acting career in the New York theater scene. His first Broadway appearance was in the 1922 play, ''The Bootleggers'', a short-lived comedy which was produced at the 39th Street Theatre in November and December of that year. He would appear in ten plays between 1922 and 1938. His film career would last slightly longer, mostly as a character actor or in smaller roles, from 1928 through 1958, during which time he appeared in over 100 films. Collins often played earnest roles like police or military officers. His first film was a silent picture, the 1928 film, '' The Racket'', which stars Louis Wolheim, and in which Collins had a featured role. It would be the only silent f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, behind New York County (Manhattan). Brooklyn is also New York City's most populous borough,2010 Gazetteer for New York State . Retrieved September 18, 2016. with 2,736,074 residents in 2020. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, Brooklyn is located on the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Be Yourself!
''Be Yourself!'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Fanny Brice and Robert Armstrong. The plot involves an entertainer (Brice) managing a boxer (Armstrong). The cinematographer was Karl Struss and the running time is 65 minutes. Cast *Fanny Brice as Fannie Field * Robert Armstrong as Jerry Moore *Harry Green as Harry Field *G. Pat Collins as "Mac" McCloskey *Gertrude Astor as Lillian Thorpe *Budd Fine as Step *Marjorie Kane as Lola, chorus girl *Rita Flynn as Jessica References External links * *''Be Yourself!''in ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...'' 1930 films 1930 musical comedy films American musical comedy films American black-and-white films Films directed by Thornton F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl Missing
''Girl Missing'' is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film starring Glenda Farrell, Ben Lyon and Mary Brian. It was directed by Robert Florey and released by Warner Bros. on March 4, 1933. Two women stranded in Palm Beach become involved in the case of a new bride who goes missing on her wedding night. Plot Kay Curtis (Glenda Farrell) and June Dale (Mary Brian) are two showgirls living in the Palm Beach hotel. When June refuses one of her wealthy male friend's sexual advances, he chooses to let June and Kay pay for their own hotel bills. They decide to ask Daisy Bradford (Peggy Shannon), who is engaged to millionaire Henry Gibson (Ben Lyon), for help paying the bills because Daisy used to be a fellow showgirl. However, Daisy pretends not to know them. Kay tries to win some money gambling, but ends up losing all their money instead. When they run into Daisy's former boyfriend Raymond Fox (Lyle Talbot) in the hotel, he offers them some money to leave town, but June and Kay acciden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hold 'Em Jail
''Hold 'Em Jail'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring Wheeler and Woolsey. They play a couple of boobs who are wrongfully convicted for firearm possession and sent to prison, where they somehow end up playing on the warden's football team. Warden Edgar Kennedy is not above framing innocent people into prison and blackmailing them into playing on his football team in exchange for being eventually proven innocent. Wheeler and Woolsey are wise to the racket, but Kennedy has to treat them with kid gloves because his old maid sister (Oliver) is in love with one of them. Rare for the duo, the film is a straight comedy with no musical numbers. It is also noteworthy for giving Betty Grable her first substantial role after appearances as a Goldwyn Girl and in bit parts. The title is a pun on the then-popular college football cheer, "Hold 'em, Yale." Cast * Bert Wheeler as Curly Harris * Robert Woolsey as Spider Robbins * Edna May Oliver as Violet Jones * Robert Armstrong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20,000 Years In Sing Sing
''20,000 Years in Sing Sing'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film set in Sing Sing Penitentiary, the maximum security prison in Ossining, New York, starring Spencer Tracy as an inmate and Bette Davis as his girlfriend. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and based upon the nonfiction book ''Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing'', written by Lewis E. Lawes, the warden of Sing Sing from 1920 to 1941. The film was remade by First National Pictures as ''Castle on the Hudson'' in 1940, starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, and Pat O'Brien. Plot Cocky Tommy Connors (Spencer Tracy) is sentenced from 5 to 30 years in Sing Sing for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. His associate, Joe Finn (Louis Calhern), promises to use his contacts and influence to get him freed long before that, but his attempt to bribe the warden to provide special treatment is met with disdain and failure. Connors makes trouble immediately, but several months confined to his cell changes his attitude somew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Park (1932 Film)
''Central Park'' is a 1932 United States Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code feature-length crime drama film directed by John G. Adolfi. This rarely seen film stars Wallace Ford and Joan Blondell and exists in a nitrate print at the Library of Congress. It has seen a DVD release by Teakwood Video. Plot Two destitute New Yorkers meet in Central Park to then get separated after getting involved with some gangsters. The gangsters pose as police officers to make money. The two New Yorkers are reunited in the end Cast * Joan Blondell as Dot * Wallace Ford as Rick * Guy Kibbee as Policeman Charlie Cabot * Henry B. Walthall as Eby * John Wray (actor), John Wray as Robert Smiley * Harold Huber as Nick Sarno * Lee Shumway as Al (uncredited) * Larry Steers as Headwaiter (uncredited) References External links * * * * 1932 films 1932 crime drama films American black-and-white films American crime drama films Films directed by John G. Adolfi Films set in New York City First National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang
''I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang'' is a 1932 American pre-Code crime-drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni as a wrongfully convicted man on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago. It was released on November 10, 1932. The film received positive reviews and three Academy Award nominations. The film was written by Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes from Robert Elliott Burns's 1932 autobiography of a similar name '' I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!'' originally serialized in the ''True Detective'' magazine. The true life story was later the basis for the television movie ''The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains'' (1987) starring Val Kilmer. In 1991, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Plot American sergeant James Allen returns to civilian life after World War I. He has served with distinction, earning a medal from Alli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicked (1931 Film)
''Wicked'', also known as ''Condannata'' in Italy and ''Malvada'' in Spain, is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Elissa Landi, Victor McLaglen, and Una Merkel. The screenplay concerns a woman who commits murder while trying to save her bandit husband and bears a child in prison. The production dates were between early June and early July 1931. Cast *Elissa Landi as Margot Rande *Victor McLaglen as Scott Burrows *Una Merkel as June *Irene Rich as Mrs. Luther * Alan Dinehart as Blake *Theodore von Eltz as Rony Rande *Oscar Apfel as Judge Luther *Mae Busch as Arlene *Ruth Donnelly as Fanny *Eileen Percy as Stella * Kathleen Kerrigan as Miss Peck * Alice Lake as Prisoner *William Pawley as Cop * G. Pat Collins as Cop * Clarence Wilson as Juryman * Edwin Maxwell as Owner of property *George Kuwa as Tony's friend *Lloyd Whitlock as Tony's Friend References Further reading * Hall, Mordaunt. ''The Screen; A Mother in Prison'', ''The New York Tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Limit (1931 Film)
''No Limit'' is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Clara Bow, Norman Foster, Stuart Erwin, Thelma Todd, Dixie Lee, and Mischa Auer. Cast *Clara Bow as Helen "Bunny" O'Day *Norman Foster as Douglas Thayer *Stuart Erwin as Ole Olson *Dixie Lee as Dotty 'Dodo' Potter *Harry Green as Maxie Mindil *Thelma Todd as Betty Royce *Kenne Duncan as Curly Andrews *Mischa Auer as Romeo *Maurice Black as Happy * G. Pat Collins as Charlie *William B. Davidson as Wilkie *Frank Hagney as Battling Hannon *Allan Cavan as Board Member (uncredited) *Robert Greig as Doorman (uncredited) *Lee Phelps as Ticket Taker (uncredited) *Syd Saylor Syd or SYD may refer to: * Syd (name), including a list of people with the name * ''Syd.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of Hans Sydow (1879–1946), German mycologist * Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ** IATA code for Sydney Airport, New Sout ... as Reporter (uncredited) External links * * 1931 films American musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman Of Experience
''A Woman of Experience'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Helen Twelvetrees, William Bakewell and Lew Cody, based on the play ''The Registered Woman'' by John Farrow. During World War I, a woman is rejected for volunteer work because of her dubious reputation, but that same reputation gets her recruited as a spy for Austria. Plot In 1914 Vienna, Elsa Elsbergen volunteers for nursing, but her lies hiding her sordid past are discovered and she is turned down. However, Captain Muller believes her patriotism and background are perfect for the Austrian Department of Intelligence. His superior, Major Schmidt, wants her to become very friendly with Captain Otto von Lichstein, who is known to be spying for the enemy. Elsa is disappointed at the use that Schmidt wants to make of her, but accepts the assignment. At a party, she catches von Lichstein's eye and agrees to meet him the next night. On her way home, she is nearly run down by a hor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lawyer's Secret
''The Lawyer's Secret'' is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Max Marcin and written by Lloyd Corrigan, James Hilary Finn, and Max Marcin. The film stars Clive Brook, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Jean Arthur, Francis McDonald, and Harold Goodwin. The film was released on June 6, 1931, by Paramount Pictures. Cast *Clive Brook as Drake Norris *Charles "Buddy" Rogers as Laurie Roberts *Richard Arlen as Joe Hart *Fay Wray as Kay Roberts *Jean Arthur as Beatrice Stevens *Francis McDonald as The Weasel * Harold Goodwin as 'Madame X' *Syd Saylor as Red *Lawrence LaMarr as Tom *Sheila Bromley as Madge - Madame X's Girlfriend (uncredited) * G. Pat Collins as Motorcycle Officer (uncredited) *Gordon De Main as Detective (uncredited) *Claire Dodd as Party Guest (uncredited) *Robert Homans as Chief of Police (uncredited) *Payne B. Johnson as Baby (uncredited) *Edward LeSaint as Prison Warden (uncredited) *Wilbur Mack as Frank - Distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vice Squad
''The Vice Squad'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John Cromwell, written by Oliver H.P. Garrett, and starring Paul Lukas, Kay Francis, Judith Wood, William B. Davidson, Rockliffe Fellowes, Esther Howard and Monte Carter. It was released on May 30, 1931, by Paramount Pictures. Plot “The vice squad trick a foreign embassy into squealing on an infamous gang of crooks.” Canham, 1976 p. 118: Filmography section. Complete plot summary quoted verbatim above. Cast *Paul Lukas as Stephen Lucarno *Kay Francis as Alice Morrison *Judith Wood as Madeleine Hunt * William B. Davidson as Magistrate Tom Morrison *Rockliffe Fellowes as Detective-Sergeant Mather *Esther Howard as Josie *Monte Carter as Max Miller *Juliette Compton as Ambassador's Wife * G. Pat Collins as Pete *Phil Tead Phillips Tead (September 29, 1893 – June 9, 1974) was an American character actor in film and television, sometimes billed as Phil Tead. Biography Born in Somerville, Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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