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Gladys Buchanan Unger
Gladys Buchanan Unger (September 16, 1884 or 1885 – May 25, 1940) was an American author who also lived in England, and who wrote plays for Broadway and the West End, as well as screenplays for Hollywood. She was the author of well over a dozen works for the London stage, Broadway, and Hollywood. Biography She was born either on September 16, 1884, or September 16, 1885 in San Francisco, the daughter of Frank Unger. From the age of 3, she lived in England and was educated at South Hampstead. Her initial aim was to become an artist, but she turned to play writing. She was a protegee of Charles Tyson Yerkes, and had $5000 a year from him, enabling her to live in some style in Mayfair, London. There was speculation in the American press about the nature of the relationship between them (e.g. ''The Oakland Tribune'', 19 August 1904, quoting ''The Wasp''). From about 1907 to 1914, she lived with her mother (critic Mrs Minnie Goodman) at Loughton in a house then called Hacienda, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Unger Circa 1913 , a character from the cartoon series ''Totally Spies!''
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Gladys may refer to: * Gladys (given name), people with the given name Gladys * ''Gladys'' (album), a 2013 album by Leslie Clio * ''Gladys'' (film), 1999 film written and directed by Vojtěch Jasný * Gladys, Virginia, United States * ''Gladys the Swiss Dairy Cow'', a 2002 sculpture of a cow * Hurricane Gladys (1968) * Talia Gladys, a character in the anime series ''Gundam Seed Destiny'' * the launch name used for USA-215, an American reconnaissance satellite * a character from the novel The Lost World * a character in the cartoon ''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy'' See also * Michael Gladis (born 1977), American actor * GLADIS ''Totally Spies!'' is an Television animation, animated Spy fiction, spy-fi series created by Vincent Chalvon-Demersay and David Michel mainly produced by French animation company Marathon Media and French broadcaster TF1, with seasons 3 to 5 bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrick Theatre
The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster, named after the stage actor David Garrick. It opened in 1889 with ''The Profligate'', a play by Arthur Wing Pinero, and another Pinero play, '' The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith'', was an early success at the theatre. In its early years, the Garrick appears to have specialised in the performance of melodrama. The theatre later became associated with comedies, including ''No Sex Please, We're British'', which played for four years from 1982 to 1986. History There was previously another theatre that was sometimes called the Garrick in London, in Leman Street, opened in 1831 and demolished in 1881.Allingham, Philip V"Theatres in Victorian London" The Victorian Web, 29 November 2015 The new Garrick Theatre was financed in 1889 by the playwright W. S. Gilbert, the author of over 75 plays, including the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. It was designed by Walter Emden, with C. J. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Of Mystery (1937 Film)
''Night of Mystery'' is a 1937 American mystery film directed by E.A. Dupont and starring Grant Richards, Roscoe Karns and Helen Burgess. The film was a remake of ''The Greene Murder Case'' (1929), adapted from a 1928 novel of the same name.Goble p.472 Because of this it is sometimes known by the alternative title ''The Greene Murder Case''. Cast * Grant Richards as Philo Vance * Roscoe Karns as Sgt. Heath * Helen Burgess as Ada Greene * Ruth Coleman as Sibella Greene * Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Tobias Greene * Harvey Stephens as Dr. Von Blon * June Martel as Barton * Ellen Drew as Secretary * Purnell Pratt as John F. X. Markham * Colin Tapley as Chester Greene * James Bush as Rex Greene * Ivan F. Simpson as Sproot * Greta Meyer as Mrs. Mannheim * Leonard Carey as Lister * Nora Cecil Nora Cecil (September 26, 1878 – May 1, 1951) was an English-born American actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Scarlett
''Sylvia Scarlett'' is a 1935 American romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on '' The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett'', a 1918 novel by Compton MacKenzie. Directed by George Cukor, it was notorious as one of the most famous unsuccessful movies of the 1930s. Hepburn plays the title role of Sylvia Scarlett, a female con artist masquerading as a boy to escape the police. The success of the subterfuge is in large part due to the transformation of Hepburn by RKO makeup artist Mel Berns. This film was the first pairing of Grant and Hepburn, who later starred together in ''Bringing Up Baby'' (1938), '' Holiday'' (1938), and '' The Philadelphia Story'' (1940). Grant's performance as a dashing rogue sees him incorporate a Cockney accent and remains widely considered the first time Grant's famous personality began to register on film. (Grant used the Cockney accent in only a few other films, notably 1939's '' Gunga Din'', 1943's '' Mr. Luc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Many A Slip (film)
''Many a Slip'' is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Vin Moore and written by Edith Fitzgerald, Robert Riskin and Gladys Buchanan Unger. The film stars Joan Bennett, Lew Ayres, Slim Summerville, Ben Alexander, Virginia Sale and Roscoe Karns. The film was released in August 1931 by Universal Pictures. Cast *Joan Bennett as Pat Coster *Lew Ayres as Jerry Brooks *Slim Summerville as Hopkins * Ben Alexander as Ted Coster *Virginia Sale as Smitty *Roscoe Karns as Stan Price *Vivien Oakland Vivien Oakland (born Vivian Ruth Andersen; May 20, 1895 – August 1, 1958), was an American actress best known for her work in comedies in Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s, most notably with the Hal Roach Studios. Oakland appeared in 157 films ... as Emily Coster * J. C. Nugent as William Coster References External links * 1931 films American comedy films 1931 comedy films Universal Pictures films Films directed by Vin Moore American black-and-white films 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madam Satan
''Madam Satan'' or ''Madame Satan'' is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film in black and white with Multicolor sequences. It was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starred Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, and Roland Young ''Madam Satan'' has been called one of the oddest films DeMille made and certainly one of the oddest MGM made during Hollywood's "golden age". Thematically, this marked an attempt by DeMille to return to the boudoir comedies genre that had brought him financial success about 10 years earlier. Plot Socialite Angela Brooks (Kay Johnson) reads in a newspaper that her husband Bob ( Reginald Denny) and "Mrs. Brooks" were in night court together along with Bob's best friend Jimmy Wade (Roland Young). The woman is actually Trixie (Lillian Roth), a showgirl Bob has been seeing, but Bob tries to pretend that she is Jimmy's wife. Angela is more amused than angered by the clumsy lies, but it soon becomes clear that Bob has lost interest i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne (1929 Musical Film)
''Marianne'' is a 1929 pre-Code romantic-musical film set at the end of World War I. Marianne is French farm girl who, although her French fiancé is away, fighting, falls in love with an American soldier. It is a remake of a silent film that was released earlier in 1929. Although the films feature mostly different casts, Marion Davies starred in both versions. This was Davies' first released talking movie. The pictures were released less than eleven years after the Armistice, and the title would have had a profound meaning for European audiences. “Marianne” has been a beloved personification of France and the battle for democracy—and the courage of French women in particular—since the Revolution. She was a key figure in French propaganda, and American men who served in Europe in 1917-1918 would have seen representations of her all around them, in public buildings, on posters and in newspapers, on coins and postage stamps. Plot The synopsis on TCM.com is wrong in too m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne (1929 Silent Film)
''Marianne'' is a 1929 American silent romantic-drama film about a French farm girl who, despite already having a French fiancé, falls in love with an American soldier during World War I. It was made first as a silent film, then as a musical with a different cast, but Marion Davies starred in both versions. Plot summary Cast * Marion Davies as Marianne * Oscar Shaw as Stagg * Fred Solm as André (as Robert Castle) * Robert Ames as Soapy * Scott Kolk as Lieutenant Frane * Émile Chautard as Père Joseph * Mack Swain as General * Oscar Apfel as Major Production In her 30th and final silent film, Marion Davies starred for director Robert Z. Leonard in this World War I story about a French girl who falls for an American soldier ( Oscar Shaw). Davies was rushed into this project after production of the ill-fated ''The Five O'Clock Girl'' shuttered. The film was remade as a sound film. This silent version survives but was long thought lost. When Fred Lawrence Guiles wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dynamite (1929 Film)
''Dynamite'' is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, and Julia Faye. Written by Jeanie MacPherson, John Howard Lawson, and Gladys Unger, the film is about a convicted murderer scheduled to be executed, whom a socialite marries simply to satisfy a condition of her grandfather's will. Mitchell Leisen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Plot Coal miner Hagon Derk is sentenced to hang for murder. His only concern is for his young sister Katie, who will be left all alone. Frivolous socialite Cynthia Crothers has her own troubles. By the terms of her grandfather's will, if she is not married by her twenty-third birthday (only a month away), she will not inherit his millions and will be left penniless. She is "engaged" to Roger Towne, but he is married to Marcia. Marcia has her own lover, Marco, and is willing to grant Roger a divorce ... for the right price. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heart Thief
''The Heart Thief'' is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Nils Olaf Chrisander and starring Joseph Schildkraut, Lya De Putti, and Robert Edeson.Bock & Bergfelder, p. 83 Cast * Joseph Schildkraut as Paul Kurt * Lya De Putti as Anna Gallambos * Robert Edeson as Count Franz Cserhati * Charles K. Gerrard as Count Lazlos * Eulalie Jensen as Countess Lazlos * George Reehm as Galambos * William Bakewell William Bakewell (May 2, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was an American actor who achieved his greatest fame as one of the leading juvenile performers of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Early years Bakewell was a native of Los Angeles, where he at ... as Victor References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. External links * * 1927 films American romantic drama films 1927 romantic drama films Films directed by Nils Olaf Chrisander American sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolph Lothar
Rudolf Lothar ú:dolf ló:tar(born Rudolf Lothar Spitzer; 25 February 1865 – 2 October 1943) was a Hungarian-born Austrian writer, playwright, critic and essayist. He was born and died in Budapest. Literary works * 1891 ''Der verschleierte König'', drama * 1900 ''König Harlekin'', play * 1900 ''Das Wiener Burgtheater'' * 1904 '' Tiefland'', opera libretto set to music by Eugen d'Albert, based on the 1896 Catalan play ''Terra baixa'' by Àngel Guimerà * 1910 ''Kurfürstendamm'', novel * 1910 ''Die drei Grazien'', comedy * 1910 ''Der Herr von Berlin'', novel * 1912 Liebesketten', opera libretto set to music by Eugen d'Albert based on Angel Guimerá’s Villa del mar, score available from Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection * 1916 ''Die Seele Spaniens'' * 1920 ''Casanovas Sohn'', comedy * 1920 ''Li-Tai-Pe, Des Kaisers Dichter'', opera libretto set to music by Clemens von Franckenstein * 1921 ''Der Werwolf'', comedy * 1925 ''Die Kunst des Verführens'' * 1927 ''De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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