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Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
''Gentlemen Marry Brunettes'' is a 1955 American Technicolor musical romantic comedy film directed by Richard Sale, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mary Loos, based on the 1927 novel ''But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes'' by Anita Loos, aunt of Mary Loos. The film stars Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain. It was produced by Sale and Bob Waterfield, with Robert Bassler as executive producer. Anita Loos authored the 1925 novel and 1926 play '' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'', which had been adapted into the highly successful 1953 film of the same name, starring Russell and Marilyn Monroe. The studio attempted to repeat the formula, with Russell returning but Jeanne Crain stepping in for a presumably otherwise engaged Monroe (both women played new characters). Alan Young, Scott Brady and Rudy Vallee also appear. However, ''Brunettes'' was not as well received as its predecessor. With choreography by Jack Cole, who had prior contributed to ''Blondes'', a young Gwen Verdon filmed a specialty numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Sale (director)
Richard Sale, (December 17, 1911 in New York – March 4, 1993 in Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter, pulp writer, and film director. Career Born in New York City, Sale was educated at Washington and Lee University. Sale started his career writing as a freelance writer for pulps in the Thirties, appearing regularly in '' Detective Fiction Weekly'' (with the Daffy Dill series ), '' Argosy'', '' Double Detective'', and a number of other magazines. In the Forties, he graduated to slick publications like ''The Country Gentleman'' and ''The Saturday Evening Post''. In the 1930s, Sale was one of the highest-paid pulp writers. In the mid-Forties to mid-Fifties, he made a career change from writing magazine fiction to screenplays. He became a writer for Paramount pictures, a writer-director for Republic Pictures, 20th Century-Fox, British Lion, United Artists, and Columbia pictures. He even became a television writer, director, producer for Columbia Broadcasting System. Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel)
''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady'' (1925) is a comic novel written by American author Anita Loos. The story follows the dalliances of a young blonde gold-digger named Lorelei Lee "in the bathtub-gin era of American history." Published the same year as F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby'' and Carl Van Vechten's ''Firecrackers'', the work is one of several famous 1925 American novels which focus upon the insouciant hedonism of the Jazz Age.: " he Jazz Age representeda whole race going hedonistic, deciding on pleasure." Originally serialized as a series of short sketches in '' Harper's Bazaar'' magazine during the spring and summer of 1925, Loos' sketches were republished in book form by Boni & Liveright in November 1925. Although dismissed by literary critics as "too light in texture to be very enduring," the book garnered the praise of many writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, William Faulkner, and H. G. Wells. Edith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earle Hagen
Earle Harry Hagen (July 9, 1919 – May 26, 2008) was an American composer who created music for movies and television. His best-known TV themes include those for ''Make Room for Daddy'', ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''I Spy'', ''That Girl'' and ''The Mod Squad''. He is also remembered for co-writing and whistling "The Fishin' Hole", the melody of the main theme to ''The Andy Griffith Show''; writing the instrumental song "Harlem Nocturne" used as the theme to television's '' Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer''; and co-writing the theme song to Tim Conway's Western comedy '' Rango''.Weber, Bruce (May 28, 2008)"Earle Hagen, Who Composed Noted TV Tunes, Dies at 88" Television: ''The New York Times''. Retrieved: May 28, 2008. Zoglin, Richard (March 3, 1986)"Back to the Time Warp" ''Time''. Retrieved: May 28, 2008. Biography Born in Chicago, Illinois, as a boy he moved with his family to Los Angeles, California, where he learned to play the trombone in junior high school, and graduated f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert W
Herbert may refer to: People Individuals * Herbert (musician), a pseudonym of Matthew Herbert Name * Herbert (given name) * Herbert (surname) Places Antarctica * Herbert Mountains, Coats Land * Herbert Sound, Graham Land Australia * Herbert, Northern Territory, a rural locality * Herbert, South Australia. former government town * Division of Herbert, an electoral district in Queensland * Herbert River, a river in Queensland * County of Herbert, a cadastral unit in South Australia Canada * Herbert, Saskatchewan, Canada, a town * Herbert Road, St. Albert, Canada New Zealand * Herbert, New Zealand, a town * Mount Herbert (New Zealand) United States * Herbert, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Herbert, Michigan, a former settlement * Herbert Creek, a stream in South Dakota * Herbert Island, Alaska Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Herbert (Disney character) * Herbert Pocket (''Great Expectations'' character), Pip's close friend and roommate in the Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdy Mayne
Ferdy Mayne (or Ferdie Mayne) (born Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel; 11 March 1916 – 30 January 1998) was a German-British stage and screen actor. Born in Mainz, he emigrated to the United Kingdom in the early 1930s to escape the Nazi regime. He resided in the UK for the majority of his professional career. Working almost continuously throughout a 60 year-long career, Mayne was known as a versatile character actor, often playing suave villains and aristocratic eccentrics in films like ''The Fearless Vampire Killers, Where Eagles Dare, Barry Lyndon'', and '' Benefit of the Doubt.'' Early life He was born Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel in Mainz, Germany. His German father was the judge of Mainz, while his half-English mother was a singing instructor. Because his family was Jewish, a teenage Mayne was sent to Britain in 1932 to protect him from the Nazis. He stayed with his aunt, Li Osborne (1883-1968), nee Luisa Friedericka Wolf, a well-known German theatre and film portr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Lorraine
Guido Lorraine (2 September 1912 – 31 December 2009) was a Polish-born actor, musician and singer, known primarily for his roles in war films. He was also sometimes known by the stage name Guy Borucki. Lorraine appeared in twenty-eight films during his career, as well as many theatre productions. Lorraine was born Gwidon Alfred Gottlieb in present-day Kraków, Poland in 1912. He studied at the School of Foreign Trade in Lwów (Lviv), where he sang in restaurants to earn money. He learned to play the accordion and piano as a child. Lorraine founded a military theatre group during World War II. He is credited as the first singer to perform the song, "Red Poppy Flowers of Monte Cassino", in public. He adopted the pseudonym Guy Borucki after World War II and moved to London. He appeared on BBC radio, television and film. His film credits during the era included ''Hotel Sahara'' in 1951, 1955's ''The Colditz Story'' and ''Blue Murder at St Trinian's'' in 1957. He also starred in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Favart
Marc Robert Favart (9 February 1911 – 26 July 2003) was a French actor, married to Jenny Carré, daughter of Albert Carré. Filmography Cinema * 1938: ' (by Jean de Limur) * 1939: ''Angelica'' or ''La rose de sang'' (by Jean Choux) * 1941: ' (by Yvan Noé) - a pilot *1941: ''Parade en sept nuits'' (by Marc Allégret) - Raymond (uncredited) *1942: ''Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary'' (by Sacha Guitry) - Lannes *1943: ' (by René Le Hénaff) *1943: ' (by Émile Couzinet) - Don Fernand de Torilhas *1944: '' La Malibran'' (by Sacha Guitry) - Le ravisseur * 1946: '' Strange Fate'' (by Louis Cuny) - Philipe - l'assistant du professeur * 1948: '' Colonel Durand'' (by René Chanas) - Bertrand de Lormoy *1948: ' (by Robert Hennion) - Dessanges *1948: '' The Lame Devil'' (by Sacha Guitry) - Abbé Dupanloup (uncredited) *1951: '' Sous le ciel de Paris'' (by Julien Duvivier) - Maximilien *1951: ' (by Marcel Aboulker and Michel Ferry) (unfinished film) * 1954: '' Royal Aff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Pohlmann
Eric Pohlmann (german: Erich Pohlmann; born Erich Pollak; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. He is known for voicing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the primary antagonist of the ''James Bond'' series, in the films '' From Russia with Love'' and '' Thunderball''. Early life Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Pohlmann was a classically trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt. He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar. In 1939, he followed his fiancée and later wife, actress Lieselotte Goettinger (best known in the UK for playing the concentration camp guard in the war films, '' Odette'' and '' Carve Her Name With Pride''), into exile in London. Until mid-1941, both were kept in an internment camp. After their release, Eric took part in propaganda broadcasts against the Nazis on the BBC World Service. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Middleton
Guy Middleton Powell (14 December 1906 – 30 July 1973), better known as Guy Middleton, was an English character actor, film character actor. Biography Guy Middleton was born in Hove, Sussex, and originally worked in the London Stock Exchange, before turning to acting in the 1930s. In his earlier films he often portrayed amiable idiots, scoundrels and rakish bon vivants, but many of his later roles were military officers in the British Army, RAF or Royal Navy. He died in 1973, following a heart attack, aged 66. Selected filmography Film * ''Jimmy Boy'' (1935) .... The Count * ''Two Hearts in Harmony'' (1935) .... Mario * ''Trust the Navy'' (1935) .... Lieutenant Richmond * ''Under Proof'' (1936) .... Bruce * ''Fame (1936 film), Fame'' (1936) .... Lester Cordwell * ''A Woman Alone (1936 film), A Woman Alone'' (1936) .... Alioshka * ''The Gay Adventure'' (1936) .... Aram * ''Take a Chance (1937 film), Take a Chance'' (1937) .... Richard Carfax * ''Keep Fit'' (1937) .... Hec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Kert Ellis
Anita Ellis (née Kert, later Shapiro; April 12, 1920 – October 28, 2015) was a Canadian-born American singer and actress. She famously dubbed Rita Hayworth's songs in ''Gilda''. Early years Anita Kert was born in Montreal, Quebec, the eldest of four children born to Orthodox Jewish parents, Harry and Lillian "Libbie" Kert (née Pearson; originally Peretz). She had a younger sister and two younger brothers, one of whom, Larry Kert, Lawrence Frederick Kert (1930–1991), became an actor and singer best known for originating the role of Tony in ''West Side Story''.Family Tree of Anita Kert cousinsconnection.com; accessed May 4, 2016. The family moved to Hollywood when she was nine years old. She graduated from Hollywood High School in 1938, and attended the College of Music in C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes Trailer 1
A gentleman (Old French: ''gentilz hom'', gentle + man) is any man of good and courteous conduct. Originally, ''gentleman'' was the lowest rank of the landed gentry of England, ranking below an esquire and above a yeoman; by definition, the rank of ''gentleman'' comprised the younger sons of the younger sons of peers, and the younger sons of a baronet, a knight, and an esquire, in perpetual succession. As such, the connotation of the term ''gentleman'' captures the common denominator of gentility (and often a coat of arms); a right shared by the peerage and the gentry, the constituent classes of the British nobility. Therefore, the English social category of ''gentleman'' corresponds to the French ''gentilhomme'' (nobleman), which in Great Britain meant a member of the peerage of England. In that context, the historian Maurice Keen said that the social category of gentleman is "the nearest, contemporary English equivalent of the ''noblesse'' of France." In the 14th century, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwen Verdon
Gwyneth Evelyn "Gwen" Verdon (January 13, 1925October 18, 2000) was an American actress and dancer. She won four Tony Awards for her musical comedy performances, and served as an uncredited choreographer's assistant and specialty dance coach for theater and film. Verdon was a critically acclaimed performer on Broadway in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, having originated many roles in musicals, including Lola in ''Damn Yankees'', the title character in ''Sweet Charity'' and Roxie Hart in ''Chicago''. She is also strongly identified with her second husband, director-choreographer Bob Fosse, remembered as the dancer-collaborator-muse for whom he choreographed much of his work and as the guardian of his legacy after his death. Early life Verdon was born in Culver City, California, the second child of Gertrude Lilian ( Standring) and Joseph William Verdon, British immigrants to the United States by way of Canada. Her brother was William Farrell Verdon. Her father was an electrician at MGM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
