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Hilda Crane
''Hilda Crane'' (also known as ''The Many Loves of Hilda Crane'') is a 1956 American drama film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Philip Dunne and produced by Herbert B. Swope Jr. from a screenplay adapted by Dunne from the play by Samson Raphaelson. The music score was by David Raksin and the cinematography by Joseph MacDonald. The film was made in Technicolor and Cinemascope. The film stars Jean Simmons, Guy Madison, and Jean-Pierre Aumont, with Evelyn Varden and Peggy Knudsen. Plot In the five years since she left Winona, her hometown, Hilda Crane has been divorced twice and acquired quite a dubious reputation. She returns from New York to a scolding mother, who hopes Hilda will have the good sense to marry successful builder Russell Burns and finally settle down. A former professor and lover, Jacques DeLisle, is still holding a grudge because Hilda left him for an athlete. Although she doesn't love Russell, she resists and resents Jacques' aggressive roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Dunne (writer)
Philip Ives Dunne (February 11, 1908 – June 2, 1992) was a Hollywood screenwriter, film director and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965. He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox. He crafted well regarded romantic and historical dramas, usually adapted from another medium. Dunne was a leading Screen Writers Guild organizer and was politically active during the "Hollywood Blacklist" episode of the 1940s–1950s. He is best known for the films ''How Green Was My Valley'' (1941), '' The Ghost and Mrs. Muir'' (1947), '' The Robe'' (1953) and '' The Agony and the Ecstasy'' (1965). Dunne received two Academy Award nominations for screenwriting: ''How Green Was My Valley'' (1941) and '' David and Bathsheba'' (1951). He also received a Golden Globe nomination for his 1965 screen adaptation of Irving Stone's novel '' The Agony and the Ecstasy'', as well as several peer awards from the Writers Guild of America (WGA), including the Laurel Award for Scre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregg Palmer
Palmer Edwin Lee (January 25, 1927 – October 31, 2015), known by his stage name Gregg Palmer, was an American film and television actor. Born in San Francisco, California, Palmer served in the United States Army Air Corps as a cryptographer in World War II. He began his acting career in 1950 with the uncredited role of an ambulance driver in the film '' My Friend Irma Goes West''. Palmer guest-starred in numerous television programs, including ''Gunsmoke'', ''Bonanza'', ''Wagon Train'', '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker'', '' The Virginian'', ''The Wild Wild West'', '' Rawhide'', ''Star Trek: The Original Series'', ''Mannix'', '' Mission: Impossible'' and ''Death Valley Days''. He also appeared in films, including ''Big Jake'', '' Magnificent Obsession'', '' To Hell and Back'', ''The Shootist'', ''The Rebel Set'', '' Zombies of Mora Tau'', '' Taza, Son of Cochise'', ''Francis Goes to West Point'' and '' The Creature Walks Among Us''. Palmer played Tom McLowery in the western tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streetcar Named Desire
''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister and brother-in-law. Williams' most popular work, ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is one of the most critically acclaimed plays of the twentieth century.Williams, Tennessee (1995). ''A Streetcar Named Desire''. Introduction and text. Oxford: Heinemann Educational Publishers. It still ranks among his most performed plays, and has inspired many adaptations in other forms, notably a critically acclaimed film that was released in 1951.Production notesDecember 3, 1947—December 17, 1949IBDb.com Plot After the loss of her family home to creditors, Blanche DuBois travels from Laurel, Mississippi, to the New Orleans French Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Tandy
Jessie Alice Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was a British-American actress. Tandy appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV, receiving an Academy Award, four Tony Awards, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. She acted as Blanche DuBois in the original Broadway production of ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' in 1948. Her films included Alfred Hitchcock's '' The Birds'' and '' The Gin Game''. At 80, she became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in ''Driving Miss Daisy''. Early life The youngest of three siblings, Tandy was born in Geldeston Road in Hackney, London to Harry Tandy and his wife, Jessie Helen Horspool. Her mother was from a large fenland family in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and the head of a school for mentally handicapped children, and her father was a travelling salesman for a rope manufacturer. She was educated at Dame Alice Owen's School in Islington. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Glenville
Peter Glenville (born Peter Patrick Brabazon Browne; 28 October 19133 June 1996) was an English film and stage actor and director. Biography Born in Hampstead, London, into a theatrical family, Glenville was the son of Shaun Glenville (born John Browne, 1884–1968), an Irish-born comedian, and Dorothy Ward, both pantomime performers. He attended Stonyhurst College and then studied law at Christ Church, Oxford. He was president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, and performed in many roles for them. Career Glenville appeared as an actor in the UK, where he also started directing. Between 1934 and 1947, he appeared in various leading roles "ranging from Tony Pirelli in Edgar Wallace's gangster drama ''On the Spot'' and Stephen Cass in Mary Hayley Bell's horror thriller ''Duet for Two Hands'' to Romeo, Prince Hal and an intense Hamlet in a production which he also directed for the Old Vic company in Liverpool..." Glenville's directorial debut on Broadway was Terence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Schumlin
Herman may refer to: People * Herman (name), list of people with this name * Saint Herman (other) * Peter Noone (born 1947), known by the mononym Herman Places in the United States * Herman, Arkansas * Herman, Michigan * Herman, Minnesota * Herman, Nebraska * Herman, Pennsylvania * Herman, Dodge County, Wisconsin * Herman, Shawano County, Wisconsin * Herman, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin Place in India * Herman (Village) Other uses * ''Herman'' (comic strip) * ''Herman'' (film), a 1990 Norwegian film * Herman the Bull, a bull used for genetic experiments in the controversial lactoferrin project of GenePharming, Netherlands * Herman the Clown ( fi, Pelle Hermanni), a Finnish TV clown from children's TV show performed by Veijo Pasanen * Herman's Hermits, a British pop combo * Herman cake (also called Hermann), a type of sourdough bread starter or Amish Friendship Bread starter * ''Herman'' (album) by 't Hof Van Commerce See also * Hermann (other) * Arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Havoc
June Havoc (born Ellen Evangeline Hovick; November 8, 1912 – March 28, 2010) was a Canadian American actress, dancer, stage director and memoirist. Havoc was a child vaudeville performer under the tutelage of her mother Rose Thompson Hovick, born Rose Evangeline Thompson. She later acted on Broadway theatre, Broadway and in Hollywood, and stage-directed, both on and off-Broadway. She last acted on television in 1990 in a story arc on the soap opera ''General Hospital'', and she last appeared on television as herself in interviews in the "Vaudeville" episode of ''American Masters'' in 1997 and in "The Rodgers & Hart: Thou Swell, Thou Witty" episode of ''Great Performances'' in 1999. Her elder sister Louise gravitated to American burlesque, burlesque and became the well-known striptease performer Gypsy Rose Lee. Early life Ellen Evangeline Hovick was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. For many years 1916 was cited as her year of birth. Havoc acknowledged in her late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 191529 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays.Obituary '' Variety'', 1 September 1982. With a career spanning five decades, she is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history. According to the '' St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture'', upon her arrival in the U.S. Bergman quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and a contender for Hollywood's greatest leading actress. David O. Selznick once called her "the most completely conscientious actress" he had ever worked with. In 1999, the American Film Institute recognised Bergman as the fourth greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema. She won numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Award and a Volpi Cup. She is one of only four actresses to have received at least thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Sullavan
Margaret Brooke Sullavan (May 16, 1909 – January 1, 1960) was an American stage and film actress. Sullavan began her career onstage in 1929 with the University Players. In 1933, she caught the attention of film director John M. Stahl and had her debut on the screen that same year in '' Only Yesterday''. She continued to be a successful stage and film actress, and is most known today for ''The Shop Around the Corner''. Sullavan preferred working on the stage and only made 16 film appearances, four of which were opposite close friend James Stewart in a popular partnership that included '' The Mortal Storm'' and ''The Shop Around the Corner''. Stewart and Sullavan were also close friends of Henry Fonda, to whom Sullavan was married from 1931 to 1933. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in '' Three Comrades'' (1938). She retired from the screen in the early 1940s to devote herself to her children and stage work. She returned to the screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dozier
William McElroy Dozier (; February 13, 1908 – April 23, 1991) was an American film and television producer, writer and actor. He is best known for two television series, ''Batman'' and ''The Green Hornet''. Early life Dozier was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Creighton University in 1929, where he studied law. Career Dozier began his career as a television writer and then moved into production. With his second wife Joan Fontaine, he co-founded Rampart Productions, responsible for ''Letter from an Unknown Woman'' (1948). He produced the film noir starring Joan Crawford, ''Harriet Craig'' in 1950. In the early 1950s he was executive producer for dramatic programs on CBS television including '' You Are There'', ''Ben Hecht's Tales of the City'' and ''Suspense''. In 1959 Dozier left CBS-TV, and took over as vice-president in charge of production at Screen Gems, replacing Irving Briskin. After founding a new company in 1964, Greenway Productions, he took on the develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September Affair
''September Affair'' is a 1950 American romantic drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, and Jessica Tandy. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis. Plot Marianne "Manina" Stuart (Joan Fontaine), a prominent concert pianist, meets David Lawrence (Joseph Cotten), a businessman, on a flight from Rome to New York. Their plane is diverted to Naples for engine repairs, and they decide to kill time by doing some sight-seeing. At lunch, a recording of the Kurt Weill/Maxwell Anderson song " September Song", sung by Walter Huston, is playing. Manina is single, and David is unhappily married with a son in his late teens. They talk too long and miss their flight, and decide to stay on for a few days, getting to know each other. They quickly fall in love. Then they hear that the plane they were scheduled to catch has crashed into the ocean, and all on board are presumed dead. Due to a clerical mixup, they were believed to have been among those aboard. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Fontaine
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was a British-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films during the "Golden Age". Fontaine appeared in more than 45 films in a career that spanned five decades. She was the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland. Their rivalry was well-documented in the media at the height of Fontaine's career. She began her film career in 1935, signing a contract with RKO Pictures. Fontaine received her first major role in '' The Man Who Found Himself'' (1937) and in ''Gunga Din'' (1939). Her career prospects improved greatly after her starring role in Alfred Hitchcock's ''Rebecca'' (1940), for which she received her first of three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The following year, she won that award for her role in Hitchcock's '' Suspicion'' (1941). A third nomination came with '' The Constant Nymph'' (1943). She appeared mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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