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Gerald Oliver Smith
Gerald Wilson Oliver Smith (June 26, 1892 – May 28, 1974) was an English-born actor who spent most of his career in the United States, both in New York City as a stage actor and in the Hollywood film industry. Born in Sidcup, Kent, England, Smith debuted as a music hall singer in London. He came to the United States as part of a London Gaiety Company production of ''To-night's the Night''. His Broadway career began in 1916, and he appeared in, among other productions, three George Gershwin musicals: '' Lady Be Good'' (1924), ''Oh, Kay!'' (1928) and '' Pardon My English'' (1933). He also had bit parts in silent films, such as '' The Mysterious Miss Terry'' (1917), and went on to appear in talkies and musicals in the 1930s and 1940s. He began working in Hollywood in 1937, and was frequently typecast as a genteel butler or pompous English gentleman. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood (film Industry)
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known as Hollywood) along with some independent film, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century. The dominant style of American cinema is classical Hollywood cinema, which developed from 1913 to 1969 and is still typical of most films made there to this day. While Frenchmen Auguste and Louis Lumière are generally credited with the birth of modern cinema, American cinema soon came to be a dominant force in the emerging industry. , it produced the third-largest number of films of any national cinema, after India and China, with more than 600 English-language films released on average every year. While the national cinemas of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand also produce films in the same language, they are not part of the Hollywood system. That said, Hollywood has also been considered a transnational cinema, and has produced multiple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodland Hills, California
Woodland Hills is a neighborhood bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. Geography Woodland Hills is in the southwestern region of the San Fernando Valley, which is located east of Calabasas and west of Tarzana. On the north it is bordered by West Hills, Canoga Park, Winnetka, and Reseda, and on the south by the Santa Monica Mountains. Some neighborhoods are in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Running east–west through the community are U.S. Route 101 (the Ventura Freeway) and Ventura Boulevard, whose western terminus is at Valley Circle Boulevard in Woodland Hills. History The area was inhabited for around 8,000 years by Native Americans of the Fernandeño-Tataviam and Chumash-Venturaño tribes, who lived in the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills and close to the Arroyo Calabasas (Calabasas Creek) tributary of the Los Angeles River in present-day Woodland Hills. The first Europeans to enter t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fight For Your Lady
''Fight for Your Lady'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and written by Ernest Pagano, Harry Segall and Harold Daniel Kusel. The film stars John Boles, Jack Oakie, Ida Lupino, Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones, Erik Rhodes, Billy Gilbert and Paul Guilfoyle. The film was released on November 5, 1937, by RKO Pictures. Plot "Honest" Ham Hamilton needs money. A wrestling promoter in London, he places a wager and tells his champion Mike Scanlon to lose on purpose, but Mike wins anyway to impress Marcia Trent, an actress who has bet on him to win. Hamilton ingratiates himself with Marcia and her betrothed, singer Robert Densmore, then sees Robert become suicidally depressed after Marcia leaves him for Mike. On a night In Budapest, a drunken Robert is persuaded by equally inebriated reporter Jim Trask make a play for a nightclub singer, Marietta, and incur the wrath of her jealous beau, Spadissimo. He will be challenged to a duel and that will grant Robert's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady Fights Back
''The Lady Fights Back'' is a 1937 American action film directed by Milton Carruth and written by Brown Holmes and Robert T. Shannon. It is based on the 1937 novel ''Heather of the High Hand'' by Arthur Stringer. The film stars Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey, William Lundigan, Willie Best, Joe Sawyer, and Paul Hurst. The film was released on October 1, 1937, by Universal Pictures Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Americ .... Plot The plot follows Power company worker Owen Merrill as goes into Muskalala River to make surveys for a dam site, when the head of Muskalala Salmon Club Heather McHale finds out about his intentions, she decides to stop him from building the dam. Cast References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lady Fights Back 1937 films American action f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behind The Mike (film)
''Behind the Mike'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Sidney Salkow, which stars William Gargan, Judith Barrett, Don Wilson, and Sterling Holloway. The screenplay was written by Barry Trivers from a story by Thomas Ahearn and Walton Butterfield. The film was released on September 26, 1937. Plot George Hayes is a radio announcer in New York with a propensity for his smart-aleck behavior and quick temper. During a rehearsal for the "Crunchy Munchy Hour", he gets into a heated argument with the owner of Crunchy Munchies, Cyrus Wittles. The argument ends with Hayes belting Wittles, which also ends Hayes' employment at the radio station. He is lured to the rural community of Valley Falls, where he is promised the job of manager for a local radio station, WBAM. Upon his arrival, he sees a well run station on the main street of the town, and walks in, believing it to be where he will be managing. There he meets Jane Arledge, who is the program manager for WVOX, the actual stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady Escapes
''The Lady Escapes'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Eugene Forde and starring Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, George Sanders and Cora Witherspoon. It is based on a Hungarian play. Plot summary A newly married couple argue constantly leading to her fleeing to France in the company of a glamorous French writer, where she is pursued by her husband. Cast * Gloria Stuart as Linda Ryan * Michael Whalen as Michael Hilton * George Sanders as Rene Blanchard * Cora Witherspoon as Fanny Worthington * Gerald Oliver Smith as Reggie Farnworth * June Brewster as Dolores * Howard C. Hickman as Judge * Joseph R. Tozer as Drake * Don Alvarado as Antonio * Maurice Cass as Monsieur Cheval * Franklin Pangborn as Pierre * Tom Ricketts as Uncle George * Lynn Bari as Bridesmaid * Claire Du Brey as Woman in Theatre * Regis Toomey as American Reporter * Milton Owen as English Reporter * Theresa Harris as Maid * Eugene Borden as French Official * Milton Kibbee as American Expr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Of The Town (film)
''Top of the Town'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy, Sam White and Walter Lang and starring Doris Nolan. Cast * Doris Nolan as Diana Borden * George Murphy as Ted Lane * Ella Logan as Dorine * Hugh Herbert as Hubert * Gerald Oliver Smith as Borden Executive * Mischa Auer as Hamlet * Gregory Ratoff as J.J. Stone * Peggy Ryan as Peggy * J. Scott Smart as Beaton (as Jack Smart) * Ray Mayer as Roger * Henry Armetta as Bacciagalluppi * Gertrude Niesen as Gilda Norman * Claude Gillingwater as William Borden * Ernest Cossart as Augustus Borden * Samuel S. Hinds as Henry Borden * Richard Carle as Edwin Borden * California Collegians as Singing Group * The Four Esquires as Performers Reception Writing for ''Night and Day'' in 1937, Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with wides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When You're In Love (film)
''When You're in Love'' is a 1937 American musical film directed by Robert Riskin and Harry Lachman, who was not credited, and starring Grace Moore and Cary Grant. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" and the Ernesto Lecuona classic Cuban song "Siboney". Two of the other songs in the film – "Our Song" and "The Whistling Boy" – are by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. The film was briefly released on VHS tape during the 1980s but has never been officially released on DVD. On May 6, 2016 the getTV channel featured the broadcast premiere of a newly restored print of the film. Film critic Thomas Gladysz described it as "one of those 'old movies' few people have heard of, and even fewer have seen. Nevertheless, it is a charming and entertaining film deserving a wider audience." Plot Jimmy Hudson (Cary Grant) is a vagabond American artist in Mexico who can't pay his hotel bill. Louise Fuller (Grace Moore) is an acclaimed classical singer recently expelled from the U.S. to M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl Overboard (1937 Film)
'''Girl Overboard is a 1937 American mystery film directed by Sidney Salkow from a screenplay by Tristram Tupper based on a story by Sara Elizabeth Rodger. The film stars Gloria Stuart, Walter Pidgeon, and Billy Burrud, and was released on February 28, 1937. Cast list * Gloria Stuart as Mary Chesbrooke * Walter Pidgeon as Paul Stacey * Billy Burrud as Bobby Stacey * Hobart Cavanaugh as Joe Gray * Gerald Oliver Smith as Harvey * Sidney Blackmer as Alex LeMaire * Jack Smart as Wilbur Jenkins * David Oliver as Dutch * Charlotte Wynters as Molly Shane * Russell Hicks as Sam LeMaire * R. E. O'Connor as Sergeant Hatton * Edward McNamara as Captain Murphy * Charles Wilson as Editor * Selmer Jackson Selmer Adolf Jackson (May 7, 1888 – March 30, 1971) was an American stage film and television actor. He appeared in nearly 400 films between 1921 and 1963. His name was sometimes spelled Selmar Jackson. Jackson was born in Lake Mills, Iowa a ... as Captain Hartman References E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man I Marry
''The Man I Marry'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Harry Clork and M. Coates Webster. The film stars Doris Nolan, Michael Whalen, Charles "Chic" Sale, Nigel Bruce, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Marjorie Gateson, Cliff Edwards and Gerald Oliver Smith. The film was released on November 1, 1936, by Universal Pictures. Plot Cast *Doris Nolan as Rena Allen * Michael Whalen as Ken Durkin *Charles "Chic" Sale as Sheriff Clem Loudecker *Nigel Bruce as Robert Hartley * Richard "Skeets" Gallagher as Jack Gordon *Marjorie Gateson as Eloise Hartley *Cliff Edwards as Jerry Ridgeway *Gerald Oliver Smith as Throckton Van Cortland *Ferdinand Gottschalk as Organist *Harry Barris as Piano Player *Edward McWade as Druggist *Harry Hayden as Minister *Rollo Lloyd as Woody Ryan *Peggy Shannon as Margot Potts *Richard Carle as Storekeeper *Lew Kelly Lew Kelly (August 24, 1879 – June 10, 1944) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Brevities
Broadway Brevities are two-reel (17–21 minutes long) musical and dramatic film shorts produced by Warner Bros. between 1931 and 1943. The series continued as Warner Specials in later years. Overview Other titles used for these black and white two-reel films included “Vitaphone Musicals”, “Broadway Headliners”, “Presentation Revue” (for a couple 1938 releases) and “Blue Ribbon Comedy” for a trio featuring Elsa Maxwell. Usually the trade periodicals grouped them as “Broadway Brevities” for easier marketing purposes. Many of these glossy productions, a few winning Academy Awards, featured dance spectaculars and mini-dramas with top Broadway theatre or Warner studio stars; famous names included Russ Columbo, Ruth Etting, Hal Le Roy, Bob Hope and Red Skelton. They were filmed at the Vitaphone studio in Brooklyn, New York until 1939, with Samuel Sax as a key producer. Production then moved to Burbank, California. By the forties, an increasing number were of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Double Life
''His Double Life'' is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Broadway theatrical impresario and first time film director Arthur Hopkins with directorial input from the experienced William C. deMille, Cecil's older brother. It stars Roland Young and Lillian Gish. It had been filmed before in 1921 in the silent era as '' The Great Adventure'' with Lionel Barrymore, and was remade again in 1943 as '' Holy Matrimony'' with Monty Woolley. It is preserved at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. and is available on DVD. This film is now in public domain (in the USA). Plot Priam Farrel is England's most renowned painter. A recluse who hates fame, he has been away from England; his longtime agent has never even met him. When Lady Helen mistakenly believes he has proposed to her, he hastily returns to London with his valet Henry Leek. After Leek dies soon after of pneumonia, the attending doctor mistakes him for Priam and informs the press. The real Priam is glad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
