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Gordon Rigby
Gordon Rigby (August 7, 1897 – July 11, 1975) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for more than 40 films between 1921 and 1948. He was born and died in Los Angeles. Partial filmography * '' What Love Will Do'' (1921) * '' Hearts Aflame'' (1923) * '' Dark Stairways'' (1924) * ''Adventure'' (1925) * '' The Blue Eagle'' (1926) * ''Black Paradise'' (1926) * ''The Family Upstairs'' (1926) * ''Honesty – The Best Policy'' (1926) * '' Rustling for Cupid'' (1926) * '' Whispering Wires'' (1926) * ''The Frontiersman'' (1927) * ''Nevada'' (1927) * ''The Grain of Dust'' (1928) * '' The Toilers'' (1928) * '' Tiger Rose'' (1929) * '' The Woman I Love'' (1929) * '' Mammy'' (1930) * ''Under a Texas Moon'' (1930) * ''Song of the Flame'' (1930) * '' Happy Landing'' (1934) * ''The Wrong Road'' (1937) * ''Flight into Nowhere'' (1938) * ''The Strange Case of Dr. Meade'' (1938) * ''Reformatory'' (1938) *'' Whispering Enemies'' (1939) * ''Trapped in the Sky'' (1939) * ''Sing, Dance, Plenty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman I Love (1929 Film)
''The Woman I Love'' is a 1929 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and starring Margaret Morris, Robert Frazer and Leota Lorraine.Katchmer p.317 Cast * Margaret Morris as Edna Reed * Robert Frazer as John Reed * Leota Lorraine as Lois Parker * Norman Kerry as Kenneth Hamilton * Bert Moorhouse Bert Moorhouse (sometimes incorrectly billed as Bert Moorehouse) (November 20, 1894 – January 26, 1954) was an American character actor whose career began at the very tail end of the silent era, and lasted through the mid-1950s. Biography Bo ... as Lois' Boyfriend References Bibliography * George A. Katchmer. ''Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known''. McFarland, 1991. External links * 1929 films Films directed by George Melford American silent feature films 1920s English-language films American black-and-white films Silent American drama films 1929 drama films Film Booking Offices of America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Deaths
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. * January 2 ** The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. ** Bangladesh revolutionary leader Siraj Sikder is killed by police while in custody. ** A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. * January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , killing 12 people. * January 7 – OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%. * January 10–February 9 – The flight of ''Soyuz 17'' with the crew of Georgy Grechko and Aleksei Gubarev aboard the ''Salyut 4'' space station. * January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin. * January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history, where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction. * January 31 – The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association is f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
''Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot'' is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Lew Landers and written by Gordon Rigby and Bradford Ropes. The film stars Ruth Terry, Johnny Downs, Barbara Jo Allen, Billy Gilbert, Claire Carleton and Mary Lee. The film was released on August 10, 1940, by Republic Pictures. Plot Cast *Ruth Terry as Irene *Johnny Downs as Johnny *Barbara Jo Allen as Susan *Billy Gilbert as Hector *Claire Carleton as Evelyn * Mary Lee as Judy *Elisabeth Risdon as Agatha *Lester Matthews as Scott *Leonard Carey Leonard Carey (25 February 1887 – 11 September 1977) was an English character actor who very often played butlers in Hollywood films of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. He was also active in television during the 1950s. He is perhaps best known ... as Henderson References External links * 1940 films American comedy films 1940 comedy films Republic Pictures films Films directed by Lew Landers Films scored by William Lava American black-and-white fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trapped In The Sky (film)
''Trapped in the Sky'' (aka ''Army Spy'' and ''Sabotage'') is a 1939 American thriller film directed by Lewis D. Collins and produced by Larry Darmour for Columbia Pictures. The film stars Jack Holt, Ralph Morgan and Katherine DeMille. Holt is the "flyboy" who is trying to find the saboteurs of a "silent" aircraft. The plot device of a "noiseless" or stealthy aircraft is a familiar theme in aviation films of the period, including '' The Sky Ranger'' (1921), ''The Silent Flier'' (1926) and '' Eagle of the Night'' (1928). Plot Inventor Walter Fielding (Holmes Herbert) has been developing a new type of aircraft that is "noiseless". He offers the United States government first option on his invention. When William Fornay ( C. Henry Gordon), a foreign agent, offers him three times the army's price, Fielding decides to sabotage the government tests, thus enabling him to sell his patent to the highest bidder. After the initial test flight ends in a crash and the death of its pilot, Lie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whispering Enemies
''Whispering Enemies'' is a 1939 American drama film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Jack Holt, Dolores Costello and Addison Richards.Darby p.65 Cast * Jack Holt as Stephen Brewster * Dolores Costello as Laura Crandall * Addison Richards as Red Barrett * Joseph Crehan as George Harley * Donald Briggs as Fred Bowman * Paul Everton as Prison Warden * Pert Kelton Pert or PERT may refer to: Ships * - see List of United States Navy ships: P * , a World War II corvette, originally HMS ''Nepeta'' * ''Pert'' (sidewheeler), a 19th-century steamboat that operated in British Columbia, Canada Statistics * PER ... as Virginia Daniels References Bibliography * Darby, William. ''Masters of Lens and Light: A Checklist of Major Cinematographers and Their Feature Films''. Scarecrow Press, 1991. External links * 1939 films 1939 drama films 1930s English-language films American drama films Films directed by Lewis D. Collins Columbia Pictures films 1930s America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reformatory (film)
''Reformatory'' is a 1938 American crime drama film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Jack Holt, Bobby Jordan and Charlotte Wynters.Shary & Mcinnes p.15 Plot The inmates at a juvenile detention institution plan a mass breakout, despite the attempts of a new superintendent to bring in a more liberal regime. Cast * Jack Holt as Robert Dean * Bobby Jordan as Pinkey Leonard * Charlotte Wynters as Adele Webster * Grant Mitchell as Arnold Frayne * Tommy Bupp as Fibber Regan * Frankie Darro as Louie Miller * Ward Bond as Mac Grady * Sheila Bromley as Mrs. Regan * Vernon Dent as Cook Howard * Greta Granstedt as Millie * Paul Everton as Gov. Spaulding * Lloyd Ingraham Lloyd Chauncey Ingraham (November 30, 1874 – April 4, 1956) was an American film actor and director. Biography Born in Rochelle, Illinois, Ingraham appeared in more than 280 films between 1912 and 1950, as well as directing more than 100 f ... as Doctor Blakely * Joe Caits as Jim Leonard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Strange Case Of Dr
''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] |
Flight Into Nowhere
''Flight Into Nowhere'' is a 1938 American adventure film directed by Lewis D. Collins, and produced by Larry Darmour for Columbia Pictures. The film stars Jack Holt, Jacqueline Wells and Dick Purcell. In the low-budget action film, the locale of South America jungles provides an exciting venue for "flyboy" Jack Holt, who is trying to establish a new route for an American airline. Plot Headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg (Dick Purcell), despite landing safely, flew his airliner into a storm, and is fired. When, his boss at Trans Continental Airways, Jim Horne ( Jack Holt), finds out Bill has secretly wed Joan Hammond ( Jacqueline Wells), the daughter of the airline's owner, he relents and allows Bill to keep his job. Fellow pilot, Ike Matthews ( James Burke), is assigned to a proving flight over the western coast of the South American jungle to photograph potential landing fields. Bill is jealous of the publicity that the first flight will achieve and steals the aircraft to do the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrong Road
''The Wrong Road'' is a 1937 American crime drama film directed by James Cruze and starring Richard Cromwell, Helen Mack, and Lionel Atwill. The film is now in the public domain. Plot A young unmarried couple (Cromwell and Mack), whose plans for their life together have not turned out as expected, decide to steal $100,000 from the bank where the boyfriend works, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their prison sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator (Atwill), who has a soft spot for the couple and would like to see them go straight, and the boyfriend's old cellmate, who wants a cut of the money. Cast *Richard Cromwell as Jimmy Caldwell *Helen Mack as Ruth Holden *Lionel Atwill as Mike Roberts *Horace McMahon as Blackie Clayton *Russ Powell as Chief Ira Foster * Billy Bevan as McLean *Marjorie Main as Martha Foster *Rex Evans as Victor J. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Landing (1934 Film)
''Happy Landing'' is a 1934 American action film directed by Robert N. Bradbury and starring Ray Walker, Julie Bishop and William Farnum.Pendo p.14 Cast * Ray Walker as Lt. Nick Terris * Julie Bishop as Janet Curtis * William Farnum as Col. Curtis * Noah Beery as Capt. Terris * Hyram A. Hoover as Lt. Peter Taylor * Morgan Conway as Frank Harland * Warner Richmond Warner Richmond (born Werner Paul Otto Raetzmann; January 11, 1886 – June 19, 1948) was an American stage and film actor. He began his career as a stock theatre actor and appeared in films in both the silent film and sound eras. His career spa ... as Powell * Donald Reed as Paul * Billy Erwin as Horace * Ruth Romaine as Stella * Eddie Fetherston as Wireless Operator * Gertrude Simpson as Wife References Bibliography * Stephen Pendo. ''Aviation in the Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 1985. External links * 1934 films 1930s action films 1930s English-language films American action films Films directe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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