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Harry Holman
Harry James Holman (March 15, 1862 – May 3, 1947) was an American character actor. He appeared in approximately 130 films between 1923 and 1947. Biography Born in Conway, Missouri, Holman dropped out of school in the ninth grade and began seeking work as an actor. In films from at least 1930, he played "a vast array of mayors, justices of the peace, attorneys, millionaires and sugar daddies". He is best known to modern audiences as the desperate Professor Richmond who tries to transform the uncouth Three Stooges into gentlemen in the film ''Hoi Polloi'' (1935). He also played frequently in the films of director Frank Capra, for example as the mayor in ''Meet John Doe'' (1941) and as the befuddled high school teacher Mr. Partridge in ''It's a Wonderful Life'' (1946)''. On Broadway, Holman portrayed Wilson Prewitt in ''The County Chairman'' (1903) and Caesar Augustus Miggs in ''Ruled Off the Turf'' (1906). Holman performed in vaudeville, heading the Harry Holman Comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conway, Missouri
Conway is a city in Laclede County, Missouri, United States. The population was 788 at the 2010 census. Conway is located southwest of Lebanon. History Conway was platted in 1869, and named after a local merchant. A post office has been in operation at Conway since 1871. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 788 people, 303 households, and 213 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 362 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 94.8% White, 0.4% African American, 0.9% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.0% from other races, and 2.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.8% of the population. There were 303 households, of which 43.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.2% were married couples living together, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sporting Blood (1931 Film)
''Sporting Blood'' is a 1931 American MGM pre-Code sports drama film directed by Charles Brabin. The film stars Clark Gable (in his first starring role), Ernest Torrence, and Madge Evans. Two other pictures bore this same title, one released in 1916 by Fox and another by MGM in '' Sporting Blood'' (1940). Although they, too, centered on horse racing, none of the plots had any direct connection with the others. Plot Gambler Rid Riddell (Clark Gable) works for Tip Scanlon (Lew Cody), a crooked gambler, who buys Tommy-Boy, a racehorse from a wealthy man (Hallam Cooley) whose spoiled wife (Marie Prevost) loses interest. Tip and Rid consistently win with the horse in both honestly and dishonestly run races. But before long, Tommy Boy loses a race he wasn't supposed to, and the mob is after Tip. Tip is murdered but not before giving Tommy Boy to his girlfriend (Madge Evans) who sets out to rehabilitate herself and the horse. The horse rebounds. After an attempt at sabotage, the horse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Conquerors (1932 Film)
''The Conquerors'' is a 1932 American pre-Code Western film that spans several generations in a family that lives through a series of financial crises with faith in the future of the country. It was directed by William A. Wellman, and stars Richard Dix and Ann Harding as a young couple who move from New York City to the American West and build a banking empire. Plot The film begins in a prosperous New York City in 1873. Lowly bank clerk Roger Standish is fired from his job after he is caught courting Caroline Ogden, the daughter of the bank’s president. The failure of Ogden’s bank in the Panic of 1873 brings about her father’s financial collapse and death. Undismayed, Caroline offers to marry Roger and proposes that they travel west in search of new opportunities. While traveling through Nebraska on a raft, Roger is shot when the Slade gang robs them. He is taken to the nearby town of Fort Allen, where the town's doctor, Dan L. Blake operates successfully. Although h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Madness
''American Madness'' is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by Frank Capra and starring Walter Huston as a New York banker embroiled in scandal. Plot At the Union National Bank, the directors are concerned because they think that bank president Tom Dickson has loaned too much money to people who are bad risks during the Great Depression era, and they threaten to replace him. Dickson refuses to resign, arguing that he loans to people whom he knows are good risks, that none of them has defaulted and that loaning the money keeps it circulating preventing an even worse economic depression. Dickson's wife Phyllis is planning a special celebration for their anniversary, but he has forgotten it and made business plans. He promises to take her out the next night but then arranges another business meeting for the same time. Three gangsters led by Dude Finlay enter the office of chief cashier Cyril Cluett to intimidate him. He owes them $50,000 in gambling debts, and they promise not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor X (film)
''Doctor X'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code Mystery film, mystery horror film produced jointly by First National Pictures, First National and Warner Bros. Based on the 1931 play originally titled ''The Terror'' by Howard W. Comstock and Allen C. Miller, it was directed by Michael Curtiz and stars Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray and Lee Tracy. ''Doctor X'' was produced before the Motion Picture Production Code was enforced. Themes such as murder, rape, cannibalism and prostitution are interwoven into the story. The film was one of the last produced, along with Warner Bros.' subsequent ''Mystery of the Wax Museum'' (1933), in the early Technicolor#Process 3, two-color Technicolor process. Separate black-and-white prints were shipped to small towns and foreign markets, while color prints were reserved for major cities. Plot ''Daily World'' newshawk Lee Taylor is investigating a series of pathological murders that have taken place over a series of months in New York City. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Horse (1932 Film)
''The Dark Horse'' is a 1932 American pre-Code political comedy film, starring Warren William and Bette Davis. The movie was directed by Alfred E. Green. Plot The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, and so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks (Guy Kibbee). Kay Russell (Bette Davis) suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake (Warren William) organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe (Frank McHugh) keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So Big (1932 Film)
''So Big'' is a 1932 pre-Code American drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck. The screenplay by J. Grubb Alexander and Robert Lord is based on the 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, by Edna Ferber. ''So Big'' was the second full-scale screen adaptation of the Ferber novel. The first was a 1924 silent film of the same name directed by Charles Brabin and starring Colleen Moore. A 1953 remake was directed by Robert Wise and starred Jane Wyman. The story was also made as a short in 1930, with Helen Jerome Eddy. Plot Following the death of her mother, Selina Peake and her father, Simeon, move to Chicago, where she enrolls in finishing school. Her father is killed, leaving her penniless, and Selina's friend, Julie Hemple, helps her find a job as a schoolteacher in a small Dutch community. Selina moves in with the Poole family and tutors their son Roelf. Selina eventually marries immigrant farmer Pervus De Jong, and gives birth to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symphony Of Six Million
''Symphony of Six Million'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Ricardo Cortez, Irene Dunne and Gregory Ratoff. Based on the story ''Night Bell'' by Fannie Hurst, the film concerns the rise of a Jewish physician from humble roots to the top of his profession and the social costs of losing his connection with his community, his family and with the craft of healing. Plot Felix '"Felixel" Klauber, a brilliant young man from a tight-knit Jewish family living in New York City's Lower East Side ghetto, becomes a physician, as he has wanted to do since childhood, eventually establishing himself as a Park Avenue doctor catering to the wealthy after working his way up from being a doctor at a Lower East Side clinic. He is spurred on in his ambitions by an older brother, who is materialistic and uses Felix's love for their mother to insist that Felix better his station in life for the benefit of his family. Felix's success causes him to become es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauty And The Boss
''Beauty and the Boss'' is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Marian Marsh, David Manners and Warren William. It was based on a 1928 Hungarian play by Ladislas Fodor about a secretary who eventually marries her boss. An English language adaptation of the play by Benn Levy, entitled ''A Church Mouse'', opened in London in early May 1931. Another English language adaptation by Frederic and Fanny Hatton, also called ''A Church Mouse'', opened in New York on October 12, 1931.http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/32/Beauty-and-the-Boss/trivia.html In 1934 Warner Brothers' British subsidiary remade the story at Teddington Studios as '' The Church Mouse''. The film's sets were designed by Anton Grot. Plot summary An executive hires a mousy, plain woman as his secretary so she will not divert him from his work, but she still becomes determined to win his heart. Cast * Marian Marsh as Susie Sachs * David Manners as Baron Paul von Ullrich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wet Parade
''The Wet Parade'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Robert Young, Myrna Loy, Walter Huston, Lewis Stone and Jimmy Durante. It is based on the 1931 novel by Upton Sinclair. The film shows how two families are devastated by the effects of alcohol consumption and Prohibition. In addition to the main story, many small vignettes illustrate the theme, such as a three-minute segment that documents the many steps in the creation of counterfeit imported liquor. When the film was released in March 1932, Prohibition had been law for almost 13 years and would not end until December 5, 1933 with the passage of the 21st Amendment. Plot In 1916, Maggie May Chilcote of Louisiana looks after her heavy-drinking father Roger, tying his shoes for him and retrieving him when he makes a spectacle of himself in public. Roger embarks on a drinking and gambling spree and loses most of the family's money. In the agonies of withdrawal, he kills himself. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murders In The Rue Morgue (1932 Film)
''Murders in the Rue Morgue'' is a 1932 American horror film directed by Robert Florey, based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". The plot is about Doctor Mirakle (Bela Lugosi), a carnival sideshow entertainer and scientist who kidnaps Parisian women to mix their blood with that of his gorilla, Erik. As his experiments fail because of the quality of his victims' blood, Mirakle meets with Camille L'Espanye (Sidney Fox), and has her kidnapped and her mother murdered, leading to suspicion falling on Camille's fiance, Pierre Dupin (Leon Waycoff), a medical student who has already become interested in the earlier murders. Florey had suggested adapting Poe's story as early as March 1930 but he was only attached after being taken off ''Frankenstein'' (1931). Only a few elements of Poe's story remain in the script by Tom Reed and Dale Van Every; much of the story was changed to accommodate a role for Lugosi. Florey left the project but returned, arguin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Final Edition
''The Final Edition'' is a 1932 American crime drama film directed by Howard Higgin and starring Pat O'Brien, Mae Clark and Morgan Wallace. Made by Columbia Pictures, it is based on a story by Roy Chanslor.Langman p.127 Synopsis The squabbling city editor and a hotshot female reporter eventually join forces to try and bring down a major crime syndicate, responsible for the murder of the new police commissioner. Cast * Pat O'Brien as Sam 'Brad' Bradshaw * Mae Clarke as Ann Woodman * Morgan Wallace as Neil Selby * Bradley Page as Sid Malvern * Mary Doran as Patsy King * James Donlan as Freddie * Phil Tead as Dan Cameron - Reporter * Robert Emmett O'Connor as Police Lieutenant Daniels * Bertha Mann as Jane Conroy * Wallis Clark as Police Commissioner Jim Conroy * Lydia Knott as Jim Conroy's Mother * Bill Elliott as Reporter * Harry Holman as Harry - Newspaperman * Hal Price as Dave - Bradshaw's Assistant * Harry Strang as First Selby Hood * Kit Guard Kit Guard (born Christen Kl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
