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Grace Bradley
Grace Bradley (September 21, 1913 – September 21, 2010) was an American film actress who was active in Hollywood during the 1930s. Early life Bradley was born in Brooklyn and was an only child. As a child, she took piano lessons and, by the age of six, she gave her first recital. She attended the Eastman School of Music near Rochester, New York by age 12, after winning a scholarship. Originally, she had wanted to become a professional pianist. While in school, she took dance lessons and played piano. As one obituary noted, she "played the piano, sang and danced, on stage and in nightclubs, from an early age to help support her widowed mother." Her grandfather had wanted her to be educated in Berlin, Germany so that she could receive more formal education but a Broadway producer discovered her during one of her dance recitals and hired her for a professional show. On December 22, 1930, she made her Broadway debut at New York's Hammerstein Theatre in ''Ballyhoo of 1930''. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the List of countries and dependencies by area, eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a Federation, federal state subdivided into twenty-three Provinces of Argentina, provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and List of cities in Argentina by population, largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a Federalism, federa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 United States Presidential Election
The 1952 United States presidential election was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election and was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1952. Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won a landslide victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson II, which ended 20 years of Democratic rule that stretched back to 1932. Illinois Governor Stevenson, emerged victorious on the third presidential ballot of the 1952 Democratic National Convention by defeating Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver, Georgia Senator Richard Russell Jr., and other candidates. The Republican nomination was primarily contested by Eisenhower, a general who was widely popular for his leadership in World War II, and the conservative Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft. With the support of Thomas E. Dewey and other party leaders, Eisenhower narrowly prevailed over Taft at the 1952 Republican National Convention with Richard Nixon, a young senator from California, as his running mate. In the first televised presidential campaign, Eisenhower, in sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stolen Harmony
''Stolen Harmony'' is a 1935 American crime film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring George Raft, Ben Bernie and Grace Bradley. It is a semi-musical, featuring Big Band numbers. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Plot A saxophone-player/dancer ( George Raft) joins a Big Band upon his release from jail. The film climaxes with a car chase.Everett Aaker, ''The Films of George Raft'', McFarland & Company, 2013 p 57 Cast * George Raft as Ray Angelo * Ben Bernie as Jack Conrad * Grace Bradley as Jean Loring * Iris Adrian as Sunny Verne * Lloyd Nolan as Chesty Burrage * Goodee Montgomery as Lil Davis * Charles Arnt as Clem Walters *Purv Pullen as Little Nell (uncredited) *Ruth Clifford As Nurse (uncredited) * Jane Wyman as Chorus Girl (uncredited) * Bess Flowers as Musician (uncredited) *Carol Holloway As 6 Children members (uncredited) * Fred Toones as Henry (uncredited) * William Cagney as "Schoolboy" (lookalike brother of James Cagney James Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gilded Lily (1935 Film)
''The Gilded Lily'' is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, and C. Aubrey Smith. The production's screenplay, written by Claude Binyon, is about a stenographer who becomes a famous café entertainer courted by an English aristocrat and an American newspaper reporter. Released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on January 25, 1935, the film is one of the English language films chosen by the National Board of Review for its top-10 list of 1935. ''The Gilded Lily'' is also the first of seven films in which Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray costar. Plot Stenographer Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) and newspaper reporter Peter Dawes (Fred MacMurray) meet every Thursday on a bench outside the New York Public Library to eat popcorn and watch the world go by. One day, Peter confesses his love to her, but she tells him she only considers him a friend—that someday she will find love when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redhead (1934 Film)
''Redhead'' is a 1934 American drama film directed by Melville Brown and starring Bruce Cabot, Grace Bradley, and Regis Toomey. It was released on November 1, 1934. Cast list * Bruce Cabot as Ted Brown * Grace Bradley as Dale Carter * Regis Toomey as Scoop * Berton Churchill as Mr. Brown * LeRoy Mason as Pretty Boy * Monte Carter as Donterini * George Humbert as Pasquale * Rita Campagna as Mrs. Pasquale * Ed Brady as Joe * Bess Stafford as Landlady See also * Redhead (1941 film) ''Redhead'' is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Johnny Downs, June Lang, and Eric Blore. Cast list * Johnny Downs John Morey Downs (October 10, 1913 – June 6, 1994) was an American child actor, ... References External links * * * American drama films 1934 drama films 1934 films American black-and-white films Films directed by Melville W. Brown Monogram Pictures films 1930s American films 1930s English-language films {{193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cat's-Paw
''The Cat's-Paw'' (1934) is a comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and directed by Sam Taylor. It was Lloyd's seventh and final collaboration with Taylor and the fourth of his seven starring roles in sound. ''The Cat’s Paw'', a novel by Clarence Budington Kelland, had appeared in the ''Saturday Evening Post'' from August 26-September 30, 1933, when Lloyd read it, and decided to buy the rights to it for $25,000. Plot Ezekiel Cobb, a naive young man raised by missionaries in China, is sent to the United States to seek a wife. He is promptly enlisted by the corrupt political machine of the fictional city of Stockport, led by the corrupt boss Jake Mayo ( George Barbier) to run for mayor as phony "reform" politician. He is expected to be the " cat's paw" of the political machine. Cobb unexpectedly takes his job seriously. Frequently quoting Chinese poet Li Po (pronounced "Ling Po" in the story), he embarks on a campaign to clean his town of its corrupt political machine. Fighting b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Made Her Bed
''She Made Her Bed'' is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by James M. Cain, Casey Robinson and Frank R. Adams. The film stars Richard Arlen, Sally Eilers, Robert Armstrong, Grace Bradley, Roscoe Ates and Charley Grapewin. It was released on March 9, 1934, by Paramount Pictures and was described at the time as a "social drama" film in which Arlen plays a "heroic villain." Plot Philandering Duke Gordon and his wife Lura run a roadside coffee shop and auto park in rural Southern California. Frustrated over her husband's most recent affair, Lura strikes up a romantically-tinged friendship with snake-oil salesman Wild Bill Smith, but this sours after Bill and Duke decide to purchase a Sumatran tiger as a special attraction for the Gordons' roadside establishment. Lura discovers she is pregnant -- with Duke's baby -- and attempts to repair things with her husband while asking Bill to leave. A year later, both Bill and Eve (one of Duke' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come On Marines!
''Come On Marines!'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Richard Arlen and Ida Lupino. allmovie.com; accessed August 14, 2015. Plot Ladies' man and devil-may-care U.S. Marine sergeant, "Lucky" Davis is leading a Marine squadron on an expedition through a Philippine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a guerrilla-war rebellion. Their assignment is to rescue a group of children from an island mission that has been cut off from all communication. When they arrive, they get a bit of a surprise when Davis discovers that the "children" are a group of 18- to 25-year-old girls blissfully bathing in a pool while awaiting rescue.Cast * |
Wharf Angel
''Wharf Angel'' is a 1934 American drama film directed by William Cameron Menzies and George Somnes and starring Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Dell, David Landau, and Preston Foster. ''Wharf Angel'' was the first screenplay of Stephen Morehouse Avery. Premise Two stokers who work on the same ship become rivals for the love of a woman who works in a saloon in the tough Barbary Coast area of San Francisco. Cast * Victor McLaglen as Turk * Dorothy Dell as Toy * Preston Foster as Como Murphy * Alison Skipworth as Mother Bright * David Landau as Moore * John Rogers as Goliath * Mischa Auer as Sadik * Alfred Delcambre as Steve * James Burke as Brooklyn Jack * Frank Sheridan as The Skipper * Donald E. Wilson as Slim * John Northpole as Vasil * Alice Lake as Saloon Girl * Grace Bradley as Saloon Girl * Jill Dennett as Saloon Girl * Jack Cheatham John Preston Cheatham (December 28, 1894 – March 30, 1971) was an American character actor of the 1930s and 1940s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six Of A Kind
''Six of a Kind'' is an American 1934 pre-Code comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, W.C. Fields, George Burns, and Gracie Allen. It is a whimsical and often absurd road movie about two couples who decide to share their expenses on a trip to Hollywood. It includes the famous pool playing scene in which Fields explains how he got the name “Honest John”. Cast * Charles Ruggles (as Charlie Ruggles) - J. Pinkham Whinney * Mary Boland - Flora Whinney * George Burns - George Edward * Gracie Allen - Gracie Devore *W.C. Fields WC or wc may refer to: * Water closet or flush toilet Arts and entertainment * ''W.C.'' (film), an Irish feature film * WC (band), a Polish punk rock band * WC (rapper), a rapper from Los Angeles, California * Westside Connection, former h ... - Sheriff John Hoxley * Alison Skipworth - Mrs. K. Rumford * Phil Tead - Clerk in Newspaper Office External links * 1934 comedy films Films directed by Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl Without A Room
''Girl Without a Room'' is a 1933 American pre-Code musical comedy film starring Charles Farrell, Charles Ruggles, and Marguerite Churchill. This early light comedy farce set in Paris was written by Claude Binyon, Frank Butler, and Jack Lait, and directed by Ralph Murphy. As well as featuring some scenes with dialogue rendered in rhyming couplets, the film is notable as an example of Hollywood's attitude to abstract art in the 1930s. The hero is a no-nonsense representational artist from Tennessee, who, transplanted to Paris, meets a crowd of pretentious types in a Montparnasse garret. Chief among them is an artist who believes in depicting the soul of an object rather than the object itself. Played by comic star Charlie Ruggles, his name is "Crock" (one of the meanings of which, ironically, is scam or con, in American vernacular English). Plot Cast * Charles Farrell as Tom Duncan * Charles Ruggles as Vergil Crock * Marguerite Churchill as Kay Loring * Gregory Ratoff as Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Way To Love
''The Way to Love'' is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Maurice Chevalier and Ann Dvorak. Edward Everett Horton was the principal featured player. At one stage Carole Lombard was to have co starred against Chevalier. Filming started 9 January 1933.SWANK COMBINE RESUMES SWAY Los Angeles Times 5 Dec 1932: A9. Cast *Maurice Chevalier *Ann Dvorak *Edward Everett Horton *Minna Gombell * Blanche Frederici *John Miljan John Miljan (November 9, 1892 – January 24, 1960) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1924 and 1958. Biography Born in 1892, Miljan was the tall, smooth-talking villain in Hollywood films for almost four deca ... * Grace Bradley * George Rigas Plot Chevalier portrays a "happy-go-lucky Parisian street gypsy" who protects Dvorak's character when she is threatened by her partner in a knife-throwing act. References External links * * 1933 films 1933 romantic comedy films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
