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Herbert Bunston
Herbert Bunston (15 April 1874 – 27 February 1935) was an English stage and screen actor. He is remembered for his role as Dr. John Seward in the Broadway and film versions of '' Dracula''. Bunston was born in Charmouth and briefly attended Cranleigh School in Surrey. before working as an actor. Bunston emigrated to the United States in 1922. His first Broadway appearance was Arthur Wing Pinero's '' The Enchanted Cottage'' in 1923. Other short-running roles in '' That Awful Mrs. Eaton!'' and '' Simon Called Peter'' were followed by a critically noticed role in a run of 260 performances of 1925's '' Young Woodley.'' On 5 October 1927, Bunston debuted as Dr John Seward in a Broadway production of '' Dracula'' alongside Bela Lugosi. Bunston's other Broadway credits include ''Young Woodley'' (1925), ''Simon Called Peter'' (1924), ''That Awful Mrs. Eaton'' (1924), ''The Enchanted Cottage'' (1923), and ''Drink'' (1903). Bunston's stage success led to a contract with Metro-Gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Of Mrs
''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] |
Smilin' Through (1932 Film)
''Smilin' Through'' is a 1932 American pre-Code MGM romantic drama film based on the 1919 play of the same name written by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin under the pseudonym of Allan Langdon Martin. It was adapted from the play by James Bernard Fagan, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda and Claudine West. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin and stars Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard and Ralph Forbes. The film is a remake of an earlier 1922 silent version, also directed by Franklin and starring Norma Talmadge. ''Smilin' Through'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for 1932. Plot In 1898, John Carteret is standing by the grave of Moonyean Clare (1849-1868). At home in his garden, he calls to her, and her spirit comes to him, wearing a wedding dress. He does not see her, but he sometimes hears her. She tells him to be patient and the years will pass quickly. John, a wealthy man, has become a virtual recluse since Moonyean’s death. His lifelong frie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almost Married (1932 Film)
''Almost Married'' is a 1932 American pre-Code thriller film directed by William Cameron Menzies and written by Guy Bolton, Alexander Kirkland and Wallace Smith. The film stars Violet Heming, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander Kirkland and Alan Dinehart. The film is adapted from the 1931 novel ''The Devil's Triangle'' by the British writer Andrew Soutar. It was made by Fox Film, the forerunner of 20th Century Fox. The film's art director was Gordon Wiles while the costumes were designed by Dolly Tree. Plot A Russian woman with a forged passport attempts to elude the police and seeks the assistance of a man she met one summer in Scotland. She married an official at the British Embassy in Moscow, and settles down with him in England. However she reveals that she is already married, and her husband is criminally insane. Cast *Violet Heming as Anita Mellikovna *Ralph Bellamy as Deene Maxwell * Alexander Kirkland as Louis Capristi / Charles Pringle *Alan Dinehart as Inspector Slan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanity Fair (1932 Film)
''Vanity Fair'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Chester M. Franklin and starring Myrna Loy, Conway Tearle and Anthony Bushell. The film is modernized adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel of the same name with the original Regency-era story reset in Twentieth Century Britain. Three years later Thackeray's novel was adapted again as ''Becky Sharp'', the first three-strip technicolor film. Plot This film adaptation's storyline begins around 1920 and concludes in 1933. In its opening scene a limousine is traveling down a road outside London. In the car are two passengers, Amelia Sedley (Barbara Kent) and her friend Becky Sharp (Myrna Loy), young ladies who agewise are in their twenties. Amelia is from a rich, well-connected family, while Becky is from very modest means and has no family at all. Given Becky's circumstances, Amelia has invited her to her home for the Christmas holidays. At the Sedley estate Amelia's family welcomes their gues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
File 113 as Ottoman
''File 113'' is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Chester Franklin and starring Lew Cody, Mary Nolan and June Clyde.Pitts p.25 Monsieur Lecoq, a Parisian detective solves a series of crimes. It is based on a story by the nineteenth century French writer Émile Gaboriau. Cast * Lew Cody as M. Gaston Le Coq * Mary Nolan as Mlle. Adoree * Clara Kimball Young as Mme. Fauvel * George E. Stone as Verduet * William Collier Jr. as Prosper Botomy * June Clyde as Madeline * Herbert Bunston as Fauvel * Roy D'Arcy as De Clameran * Irving Bacon as Lagors * Harry Cording as Michele * Crauford Kent Crauford Kent (12 October 1881 – 14 May 1953) was an English character actor based in the United States. He has also been credited as Craufurd Kent References Bibliography * Pitts, Michael ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Chan's Chance
''Charlie Chan's Chance'' is a 1932 American pre-Code murder mystery film, the third to star Warner Oland as detective Charlie Chan. It is based on the 1928 novel ''Behind That Curtain'' by Earl Derr Biggers, who also contributed to the film. The film is considered to be lost. Plot Charlie Chan is attending a police convention in New York City; he is an intended murder victim here, but avoids death by chance. To find his would-be-killer(s), Charlie must outguess police reps from both Scotland Yard and New York City Police. Cast *Warner Oland as Charlie Chan * Alexander Kirkland as John R. Douglas *H.B. Warner as Inspector Fife *Marian Nixon as Shirley Marlowe *Linda Watkins as Gloria Garland * James Kirkwood as Inspector Flannery *Ralph Morgan as Barry Kirk *James Todd as Kenneth Dunwood *Herbert Bunston as Garrick Enderly *James Wang as Kee-Lin * Joe Brown as Doctor *Charles McNaughton as Paradise * Edward Peil Sr. as Li Gung Cast notes: * Thomas A. Curran the early American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassador Bill
''Ambassador Bill'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Sam Taylor and starring Will Rogers and Marguerite Churchill. The film also features Greta Nissen and Ray Milland Ray Milland (born Alfred Reginald Jones; 3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh-American actor and film director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985. He is remembered for his Academy Award and Cannes Film Festival Award-winning .... Premise Bill Harper (Rogers) plays an American ambassador. After his arrival in a small country that is besieged by civil unrest, he befriends the young boy (Tad Alexander) who is to be the country's king. Cast References External links * 1931 films 1931 comedy films Films directed by Sam Taylor American black-and-white films American comedy films Fox Film films Films set in Europe 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once A Lady
''Once a Lady'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and starring Ruth Chatterton, Ivor Novello and Jill Esmond. The film, produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, is a remake of the Pola Negri silent film '' Three Sinners'' (1928). The film was the final attempt by British matinée idol Novello to establish himself in Hollywood. Synopsis A young Russian woman (Chatterton) marries a wealthy Englishman (Novello), and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help. imdb.com; accessed July 28, 2015. Cast * |
I Like Your Nerve
''I Like Your Nerve'' is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by William C. McGann, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Loretta Young. Boris Karloff has a small role.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress'' p.86 c.1978 by The American Film Institute Plot In Latin America, Larry O'Brien (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) sees Diane Forsythe (Loretta Young) and quickly falls in love. She, however, is engaged to marry the much older Clive Lattimer (Edmund Breon). Larry discovers that her motive is to save her stepfather, Areal Pacheco (Henry Kolker), from being shot. Pacheco, the Minister of Finance, has embezzled $200,000 from the national treasury, and an audit is scheduled soon. Lattimer is extremely wealthy and willing to make up the shortfall in exchange for Diane. To keep Larry from disrupting the arrangement, Pacheco has his butler Luigi (Boris Karloff) arrange Diane's kidnapping (to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Flight (1931 Film)
''The Last Flight'' (aka ''Single Lady'' and ''Spent Bullets'') is a 1931 American pre-Code ensemble cast film, starring Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, John Mack Brown and Helen Chandler. It was directed by German filmmaker William Dieterle in his debut as an English-language film director. Modern sources consider ''The Last Flight'' one of the few cinematic treatments of "The Lost Generation." The scarred young World War I veterans have opted out of society to drink indefinitely and almost continuously in Paris with the vivacious and beautiful woman they have befriended.Pendo 1985, p. 12. Plot After World War I, pilots Cary Lockwood (Richard Barthelmess), Shep Lambert (David Manners), Bill Talbot ( John Mack Brown) and Francis (Elliott Nugent) band together in Paris. Feeling they have no future, the men are constantly drunk. One night, as they make the rounds of nightclubs, they meet Nikki (Helen Chandler), a wealthy but aimless woman, who they invite into their group. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Always Goodbye (1931 Film)
''Always Goodbye'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Kenneth MacKenna and William Cameron Menzies and starring Elissa Landi, Lewis Stone and Paul Cavanagh.Solomon p.321 It was produced and distributed by Fox Film. Synopsis In London a con man and a former heiress join forces to try and cheat a millionaire at his Italian villa. Cast * Elissa Landi as Lila Banning * Lewis Stone as John Graham * Paul Cavanagh as Reginald Armstrong, alias of Morgan * John Garrick as Cyril Shayne * Frederick Kerr as Sir George Boomer * Lumsden Hare as Blake * Herbert Bunston as Merson * Frank Atkinson as Servant * Mischa Auer as Mechanic * Louise Carver as Tenant in Hallway * Albert Conti as Party Gossip * Gino Corrado as Italian Policeman * Mary Gordon as Mrs. MacPherson, Moviegoer * Inez Palange Inez Palange (June 13, 1889 – October 16, 1962), also written as Ines Palange, was an Italian-born American actress who was best known for her role as Mrs. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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