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George Oppenheimer
George Seligman Oppenheimer (February 7, 1900 in New York City – August 14, 1977) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and journalist. Career In 1925, Oppenheimer cofounded The Viking Press, but becoming more interested in writing than publishing, he began a career as a screenwriter in Hollywood in 1933, hired to complete the screenplay of Samuel Goldwyn's comedy ''Roman Scandals'' (1933). For the rest of the 1930s he was employed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, primarily as a script doctor, rewriting, editing or polishing existing scripts. Oppenheimer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work on ''The War Against Mrs. Hadley'' at the 15th Academy Awards of 1942. His contributions to theater criticism are recognized by the Newsday George Oppenheimer Award, which was awarded annually from 1979 to 2007 to the best New York debut production by an American playwright for a non-musical play. Oppenheimer graduated from Williams College and studied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Viking Press
Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim and then acquired by the Penguin Group in 1975. History Guinzburg, a Harvard graduate and former employee of Simon and Schuster and Oppenheimer, a graduate of Williams College and Alfred A. Knopf, founded Viking in 1925 with the goal of publishing nonfiction and "distinguished fiction with some claim to permanent importance rather than ephemeral popular interest." B. W. Huebsch joined the firm shortly afterward. Harold Guinzburg's son Thomas became president in 1961. The firm's name and logo—a Viking ship drawn by Rockwell Kent—were meant to evoke the ideas of adventure, exploration, and enterprise implied by the word "Viking." In August 1961, they acquired H.B. Huesbsch, which maintained a list of backlist titles from authors such as James Joyce a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rendezvous (1935 Film)
''Rendezvous'' is a 1935 American spy film set in World War I, directed by William K. Howard, starring William Powell and Rosalind Russell and featuring Binnie Barnes, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero and Samuel S. Hinds. Powell plays an American cryptologist who tangles with German spies while falling in love. The film's screenplay by P. J. Wolfson and George Oppenheimer was based on '' The Blonde Countess'', a 1933 novel by Herbert Yardley, founder and head of the Black Chamber, as adapted by Bella and Samuel Spewack. Plot In April 1917, former newspaperman William Gordon (William Powell) is commissioned in the U.S. Army. The day before he is to leave Washington, D.C. for France, he meets socialite Joel Carter (Rosalind Russell) at an embassy gathering. The couple spend the day together where Gordon confides that because he once wrote a book on cryptography under a pen name, the army is searching for him to put him to work behind a desk, but he is eager to get into the fighting. Jus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honolulu (film)
''Honolulu'' is a 1939 American musical comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring dancer Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, George Burns and Gracie Allen. The picture was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Also appearing in the film are Rita Johnson, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Sig Rumann and Ruth Hussey. Plot Inspired by stories about doppelgängers and identical twins such as ''The Prince and the Pauper'', ''Honolulu'' features Young in a dual role as Brooks Mason—a top movie star—and as Hawaii-based businessman George Smith. Mason is tired of being in the public eye, so when he discovers that Smith is close enough to be his twin, he arranges to switch places with Smith temporarily. When Mason steps into Smith's life, he finds himself in a tug-of-war between Smith's fiancée, and a dancer named Dorothy March (Powell), with whom he has fallen in love. Meanwhile, Smith discovers that being a famous movie star is not all that it is made out to be. Notes Eleanor Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man-Proof
''Man-Proof'' is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe. The film is based on the 1937 novel ''The Four Marys'' written by Fannie Heaslip Lea. Plot The daughter of wealthy and famous novelist Meg Swift, Mimi is a young woman who seems to have a perfect life. The opposite appears to be the case, as her deep love for playboy Alan Wythe remains unanswered. Despite her mother's newspaper artist friend Jimmy Kilmartin warnings of Alan's scandalous past revolving women, Mimi is determined to one day become Mrs. Wythe. However, another woman beats her to the title. Mimi is crushed when she finds out that Alan is marrying heiress Elizabeth Kent, but swallows her pride to serve as the bridesmaid. At the wedding, Mimi overhears snobbish women gossiping about her love life. As a result, she gets drunk and admits to Alan she is in love with him. Later that night, Jimmy attempts to console her, as does Meg. Encouraged by her mother, Mimi agrees to move out of the hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise For Three
''Paradise for Three'', titled ''Romance for Three'' in the United Kingdom, is a 1938 romantic comedy film starring Frank Morgan as a wealthy industrialist who decides to find out about his German workers by temporarily living among them incognito. It was adapted from Erich Kästner's novel ''Three Men in the Snow'', published in 1934. Cast * Frank Morgan as Rudolph Tobler / "Edward Schultz" * Robert Young as Fritz Hagedorn * Mary Astor as Irene Mallebre * Florence Rice as Hilde Tobler / "Hilde Schultz", Rudolph's daughter * Edna May Oliver as Julia Kunkel * Reginald Owen as Johann Kesselhut * Herman Bing as Mr. Polter * Henry Hull as Sepp * Sig Ruman as Karl Bold (as Sig Rumann) * Walter Kingsford as William Reichenbach See also * ''A Rare Bird ''A Rare Bird'' (French: ''Un oiseau rare'') is a 1935 French comedy film directed by Richard Pottier and starring Pierre Brasseur, Max Dearly and Monique Rolland.Parish p.63 The film's sets were designed by the art directors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Yank At Oxford
''A Yank at Oxford'' is a 1938 comedy-drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh and Edmund Gwenn. The screenplay was written by John Monk Saunders and Leon Gordon. The film was produced by MGM-British at Denham Studios. ''A Yank at Oxford'' was Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor's first film appearance together; they would later appear as the romantic lead couple in the remake of ''Waterloo Bridge'' (1940). Before this film, Taylor was seen as the "romantic love interest" and thus as a 1930s equivalent to Rudolph Valentino, with men therefore starting to doubt Taylor's masculinity. His casting in this film (by Mayer) was a successful attempt to put paid to such doubts, and dramatically boosted his reputation with both men and women. Plot A cocky American athlete named Lee Sheridan ( Robert Taylor) receives a scholarship to attend Cardinal College, University of Oxford in 1937. At first, Lee is reluctant to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crowd Roars (1938 Film)
''The Crowd Roars'' is a 1938 film starring Robert Taylor as a boxer who gets entangled in the seamier side of the sport. It was remade in 1947 as ''Killer McCoy'', featuring Mickey Rooney in the title role. This film was not a remake of the 1932 film of the same name starring James Cagney. The supporting cast for the 1938 version features Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Lionel Stander, and Jane Wyman. Plot Tommy McCoy becomes a boxer, not for love of the sport but for the money. He has to put up with his alcoholic, gambling father Brian. Just before his first major fight, Tommy learns that his opponent has been injured and has been replaced at the last minute by Tommy's good friend, former world champion Johnny, trying to make a comeback. During the bout, Tommy kills Johnny and is named "Killer McCoy" in the newspapers. He then comes under the control of powerful bookmaker Jim Cain. While training, Tommy meets and falls in love with Cain's daughter Sheila. Cain has been very ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Loves Has Nancy
''Three Loves Has Nancy'' is a 1938 romantic comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone. It is set in New York City. Plot The seduction plans of novelist Malcolm Niles go awry when actress Vivian Herford brings along her mother to a candlelight dinner in his New York apartment. When they talk of marriage, Malcolm decides to make a tour promoting his new book, and in a small southern town meets Nancy Briggs at an autographing session at the local bookstore. Nancy is getting married that night, but her fiancé, working in New York, doesn't come back for the wedding, so her family gives her the fare to go to New York to find him. At the same time, Malcolm gets a wire from his publisher and friend, Robert Hanson, telling him to come home because Vivian has left town. Traveling to New York on the same train, Nancy proves to be a pest who Malcolm hopes to avoid once they arrive, but when Nancy can't find her fiancé, she goes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Day At The Races (film)
''A Day at the Races'' is a 1937 American comedy film, and the seventh film starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx and Chico Marx), with Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan and Margaret Dumont. Like their previous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature '' A Night at the Opera'', this film was a major hit. Plot The Standish Sanitarium, owned by Judy Standish, has fallen on hard times. Banker J.D. Morgan, who owns a nearby race track, hotel and nightclub, holds the mortgage on the sanitarium and is attempting to purchase it in order to convert the building into a casino. Judy's faithful employee Tony, suggests asking financial help from the wealthy patient Mrs. Emily Upjohn, who is a hypochondriac. After being pronounced healthy by the sanitarium's doctors, Mrs. Upjohn threatens to leave the Sanitarium for treatment by Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush. Tony overhears her praise of Hackenbush, who is, unknown to her, a horse doctor. When Tony lies to Mrs. Upjohn, telling her that Hackenbush ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'll Take Romance (film)
''I'll Take Romance'' is a 1937 American Romance film, romantic musical film directed by Edward H. Griffith, starring Grace Moore, Melvyn Douglas, Helen Westley, Stuart Erwin and Margaret Hamilton (actress), Margaret Hamilton. Plot An opera manager (Melvyn Douglas) tries to woo a contract-breaking soprano (Grace Moore) into performing in Buenos Aires. Cast *Grace Moore as Elsa Terry *Melvyn Douglas as James Guthrie *Helen Westley as Madame Della aka Madella *Stuart Erwin as 'Pancho' Brown *Margaret Hamilton (actress), Margaret Hamilton as Margot *Walter Kingsford as William Kane *Richard Carle as Rudi Songs *Songs and arias performed by Grace Moore **''I'll Take Romance'' (music by Ben Oakland, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II) **''Gavotte'' (''Manon'', music by Jules Massenet, lyrics by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille) **''Drinking Song'' (''La traviata'', music by Giuseppe Verdi, lyrics by Francesco Maria Piave) **''First Act Duet'' (''Madama Butterfly'', music by Giacomo Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Married Before Breakfast
''Married Before Breakfast'' is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Robert Young, Florence Rice and June Clayworth. Plot After years of struggling, inventor Tom Wakefield sells his hair-removal invention for a quarter of a million dollars. He immediately goes on a spending spree, doing good deeds for friends and strangers alike, worrying June Baylin, his fiancée. Kitty Brent helps him with some steamship tickets, so Tom wants to do something nice in return. Kitty says her marriage to fiancé Kenneth is on hold until he can sell an insurance policy to a milkman named Baglipp. An overly optimistic Tom assures her she'll be married by the next morning. His schemes to make Baglipp take the policy ends up getting Tom and Kitty into all kinds of trouble, including involvement with a robbery. By morning, both their sweethearts are exasperated. June breaks off her engagement with Tom, who realizes that overnight he's fallen for Kitty. As soon a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Of Mrs
''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 v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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