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Helene Stanley
Helene Stanley (born Dolores Diane Freymouth; July 17, 1929 – December 27, 1990) was an American actress. She is best known for being the live model for Cinderella, Aurora, and Anita Radcliffe. Early life Stanley was born in Gary, Indiana. Her parents were Michael Freymouth, who was an acrobat who worked in Europe, and Gerty Freymouth (née Seigert). Career In 1942, she made her first role in the film ''Girls' Town''. Afterwards, she played a series of roles at Universal Pictures between 1943 and 1945 (she sometimes took part in a teen dancing group called "The Jivin' Jacks and Jills") and during this period she used the stage name "Dolores Diane." In 1946, she started to work with MGM and began to use the stage name "Helene Stanley," with one of her most notable appearances being a brief, but memorable role in John Huston's ''The Asphalt Jungle'' (1950). Her collaboration with Disney started around 1948. She became the live-action model for the main character in ''Cindere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro (1952 Film)
''The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' is a 1952 American Technicolor romantic adventure film directed by Henry King from a screenplay by Casey Robinson, based on the 1936 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gregory Peck as Harry Street, Susan Hayward as Helen, and Ava Gardner as Cynthia Green (a character invented for the film). The film's ending does not mirror that of the short story. Considered by Hemingway to be one of his finest stories, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" was first published in ''Esquire'' magazine in 1936 and then republished in ''The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories'' (1938). ''The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' was a critical and commercial success upon its release and became the third highest-grossing film of 1952. It was nominated for two Oscars at the 25th Academy Awards, for Best Cinematography, Color and Best Art Direction, Color (Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox). The film has entered the public domain. Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleeping Beauty (1959 Film)
''Sleeping Beauty'' is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on the 1697 story "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. The 16th Disney animated feature film, it was released to theaters on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution. It features the voices of Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Bill Shirley, Taylor Holmes, and Bill Thompson. The film was directed by Les Clark, Eric Larson, and Wolfgang Reitherman, under the supervision of Clyde Geronimi. The film was written by Erdman Penner with additional story work by Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, and Milt Banta. The film's musical score and songs, featuring the work of the Graunke Symphony Orchestra under the direction of George Bruns, are arrangements or adaptations of numbers from the 1890 ''Sleeping Beauty'' ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. ''Sleeping Beauty'' was the first animated film to be photograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Dear Secretary
''My Dear Secretary'' is a 1948 American comedy film written and directed by Charles Martin (1910-1983) and starring Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Keenan Wynn, and Helen Walker. The supporting cast features Rudy Valee, Alan Mowbray and Irene Ryan. Plot Successful novelist and playboy Owen Waterbury (Kirk Douglas) hires aspiring writer Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord (Laraine Day) as his secretary; a dream come true for Steve who admires Owen and his work. Steve soon finds out that the egomaniacal Owen has gone through a series of secretaries who have left when they are fed up with his behaviour. He is constantly in debt and cannot begin to write a contracted novel that will pay his bills including a lucrative advance by his publisher. Steve and Owen end up marrying, and Steve perseveres until the novel, based on the events of Steve's life and that mentions a character based on his publisher shown in an unflattering light, is refused publication. Owen claims he cannot have a wife and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brick Bradford (serial)
''Brick Bradford'' (1947) was the 35th serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based on the comic strip ''Brick Bradford'', which was created by Clarence Gray and William Ritt. Plot Brick Bradford is assigned by the government to aid Doctor Gregor Tymak, scientist and inventor who is working on an "Interceptor Ray" that can destroy incoming rockets. Unfortunately, it can also be used as a death ray, bringing it to the attention of foreign spy agent Laydron. Tymak uses his door into the fifth dimension to escape criminals and it takes him to the far side of the Moon (which luckily has air and is a rocky terrain without craters). There he is captured and sentenced to die by freezing to absolute zero by the Queen Khana, despot of the Moon, because they do not believe he has come from the Earth. The action moves to the Moon as the ray requires a special element called ''Lunarium'' (with an atomic mass of 200) previously only found in a meteorite. Working with exiles in the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holiday In Mexico
''Holiday in Mexico'' is a 1946 Technicolor musical directed by George Sidney and starring Walter Pidgeon, Jane Powell, and Ilona Massey. Plot The film starts with a brief cartoon of telephone wires from Washington, DC trying to call Mexico. Jeffrey Evans (Walter Pidgeon), an American ambassador to Mexico, is the sole parent to his teenage daughter, Christine (Jane Powell). She finds fulfillment in managing her father's life and spending time with him. Her father forces her to attend a party where her childhood friend, Stanley Owen (Roddy McDowall), who has just turned sixteen, awaits her. In revenge she gives Stanley one of her father's expensive, brand-new tobacco pipes. Stanley, thinking that this gift was meant to show that he is finally a man, asks Christine to be "his girl", but she insists that she is too busy for that. Yvette Baranga (Helene Stanley), the daughter of the French ambassador, begs Christine if she can attend Jeffrey Evans' upcoming party. Christine agrees, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thrill Of A Romance
''Thrill of a Romance'' (also known as ''Thrill of a New Romance'') is an American Technicolor romance film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1945, starring Van Johnson, Esther Williams and Carleton G. Young, with musical performances by Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra and opera singer Lauritz Melchior. The film was directed by Richard Thorpe and written by Richard Connell and Gladys Lehman. The film tells the story of Cynthia Glenn, who, after a whirlwind romance, marries a rich businessman. However, on the first day of their honeymoon, her new husband is called away to Washington, leaving her alone at a resort. During this time, she meets and falls in love with a war hero, Tommy Milvaine, played by Van Johnson. This was the second of five films that paired Williams and Johnson together. Made over a period of eight years, those that followed were ''Easy to Wed'' (1946), ''Duchess of Idaho'' (1950) and '' Easy to Love'' (1953). ''Thrill of a Romance'' was a box office success, bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick The Great
''Patrick the Great'' is a 1945 American drama film starring Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, and Frances Dee. This was the last film for O'Connor and Ryan together, who had been a teenage team for the past several years. This was also O'Connor's last film before he went to serve in World War II. Plot Pat Donahue (Donald O'Connor) is living and working in the highland region of western Massachusetts, but longs for a career in show business. The young, but talented, Donahue hears about an opening in New York, and travels to the auditions. He wins the role, but later finds out that it was originally intended for his father Patrick Donahue (Donald Cook). Judy Watkin (Peggy Ryan) considers the younger Donahue her boyfriend, but a New York sophisticated young lady Lynn Andrews (Frances Dee) catches the young man's eye. The young Donahue struggles with his reluctance to do what's right with respect to his father. Comedy and music are in abundant supply in this romp. Cast * Donald O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonlight In Vermont (film)
''Moonlight in Vermont'' is the title of a 1943 upbeat American musical dramatic film. Plot A Vermont farm girl Gwen Harding enrolls in the renowned Devereau dance school in the New York. Her singing makes her semi-popular, and she is soon noticed by fellow student Richard "Slick" Ellis. Ellis' jealous girlfriend Brenda Allenby is soon involved. Farm problems conflict with dance school life and even though her new friends try to help out, other problems, including a vindictive romantic rival, arise. Cast * Gloria Jean as Gwen Harding * Ray Malone as Richard 'Slick' Ellis * George Dolenz as Lionel Devereau * Fay Helm as Lucy Meadows * Betty McCabe as Joan * Sidney Miller as Cyril * Vivian Austin as Brenda Allenby * Patsy O'Connor as Alice * Mira McKinney as Elvira * William 'Billy' Benedict as Abel * Virginia Brissac Virginia Brissac (June 11, 1883 – July 26, 1979) was a popular American stage actress who headlined theatre companies from Vancouver to San Diego during t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hi, Buddy
''Hi, Buddy'' is a 1943 American musical film directed by Harold Young and written by Warren Wilson. The film stars Dick Foran, Harriet Nelson, Robert Paige, Marjorie Lord, Bobs Watson, Tommy Cook, Jennifer Holt and Gus Schilling. The film was released on February 26, 1943, by Universal Pictures. Plot Cast *Dick Foran as Dave O'Connor *Harriet Nelson as Gloria Bradley *Robert Paige as Johnny Blake *Marjorie Lord as Mary Parker *Bobs Watson as Tim Martin * Tommy Cook as Spud Winslow *Jennifer Holt as Miss Lucille Russell *Gus Schilling as Downbeat Collins *Wade Boteler Wade Boteler (October 3, 1888 – May 7, 1943) was an American film actor and writer. He appeared in more than 430 films between 1919 and 1943. Biography He was born in Santa Ana, California, and died in Hollywood, California, from a heart ... as Michael O'Shane *Drew Roddy as Pat O'Shane References External links * 1943 films American musical films 1943 musical films Universal Pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls' Town
''Girls' Town'' is a 1942 American drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Edith Fellows, June Storey and Alice White.Fetrow p.176 The winner of a Midwest beauty contest receives a screen test in Hollywood and takes her sister along, lodging in a boarding house. Cast * Edith Fellows as Sue Norman * June Storey as Myra Norman * Kenneth Howell as Kenny Lane * Alice White as Nicky * Anna Q. Nilsson as Mother Lorraine * Warren Hymer as Joe * Vince Barnett as Dimitri * Paul Dubov as Lionel Fontaine * Peggy Ryan as Penny * Helene Stanley as Sally * Helen McCloud Helen may refer to: People * Helen of Troy, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in the world * Helen (actress) (born 1938), Indian actress * Helen (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Places * Helen, ... as Mayor * Cara Williams as Ethel * Charles Williams as Coffer References Bibliography * Fetrow, Alan G. ''Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasia (1940 Film)
''Fantasia'' is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced and released by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen. The third Disney animated feature film, it consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Music critic and composer Deems Taylor acts as the film's Master of Ceremonies who introduces each segment in live action. Disney settled on the film's concept in 1938 as work neared completion on ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'', originally an elaborate '' Silly Symphony'' cartoon designed as a comeback role for Mickey Mouse, who had declined in popularity. As production costs surpassed what the short could earn, Disney decided to include it in a feature-length film of multiple segments set to classical pieces with Stokowski and Taylor as collaborators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. A notable and historic suburb of Greater Los Angeles, it is in a wealthy area immediately southwest of the Hollywood Hills, approximately northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Beverly Hills' land area totals to , and along with the smaller city of West Hollywood in the east, is almost entirely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 32,701; marking a decrease of 1,408 from the 2010 census count of 34,109. In American popular culture, Beverly Hills has been known primarily as an affluent, upscale location within Greater Los Angeles, which corresponds to higher property values and taxes in the area. Many different high-end shops and goods are displayed in the city, and can be observed in the Rodeo Drive shopping district; the district houses many different luxury and designer brands, such as Versace, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Armani and Prada. Throughout its hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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