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Howard Irving Young
Howard Irving Young (April 24, 1893 – February 24, 1952) was an American screenwriter and playwright.Marshall p.297 During the 1930s and 1940s he worked on a number of British films. Selected filmography * '' A Million A Minute'' (1916) * '' Miss Nobody'' (1917) * '' Vengeance Is Mine'' (1917) * '' No Trespassing'' (1922) * ''Does It Pay?'' (1923) * ''The Perfect Sap'' (1927) * ''Her Wild Oat'' (1927) * ''Midnight Mystery'' (1930) * ''Television'' (1931) * ''Music in the Air'' (1934) * ''Spring Tonic'' (1935) * ''Under Pressure'' (1935) * ''Secret of Stamboul'' (1936) * '' The Crimson Circle'' (1936) * ''Said O'Reilly to McNab'' (1937) * ''The Great Gambini'' (1937) * '' Hey! Hey! USA'' (1938) * '' Hi Gang!'' (1941) * '' I Thank You'' (1941) * ''It's That Man Again'' (1943) * ''He Snoops to Conquer'' (1944) * '' One Exciting Night'' (1944) * ''Time Flies'' (1944) * '' I Didn't Do It'' (1945) * ''George in Civvy Street'' (1946) * ''Let's Live a Little'' (1948) * ''The Flying Sauce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jersey City
Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.The Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships in 2010 in New Jersey: 2000 and 2010 , . Accessed November 7, 2011. It is the of and the county's largest city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under Pressure (1935 Film)
''Under Pressure'' is a 1935 American drama film directed by Raoul Walsh, written by Borden Chase, Lester Cole and Noel Pierce, and starring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Florence Rice, Marjorie Rambeau, Charles Bickford and Sig Ruman. It was released on February 1, 1935, by Fox Film Corporation. Borden Chase acted as technical adviser. The film was also known as ''East River'' and ''Man Lock''. Plot Cast *Edmund Lowe as Shocker Dugan *Victor McLaglen as Jumbo Smith *Florence Rice as Pat Dodge *Marjorie Rambeau as Amelia 'Amy' Hardcastle *Charles Bickford as Nipper Moran *Sig Ruman as Doctor *Roger Imhof as George Breck *Warner Richmond as Weasel *James Donlan James Donlan (July 23, 1888 – June 7, 1938) was an American actor. Born in San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cul ... as Corky References External links * * 1935 films Fox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George In Civvy Street
''George in Civvy Street'' is a 1946 British comedy film directed and produced by Marcel Varnel starring George Formby with Ronald Shiner, and Ian Fleming. It was made by the British subsidiary of Columbia Pictures. This was Formby's last big screen appearance. After the film was unsuccessful at the box office, he resumed his career in the music hall. The working title for the film was "Remember the Unicorn". Plot summary This comedy film portrays George Formby leaving the forces and becoming a village pub owner, who works to turn a waitress from her current boss, a rival pub owner. Formby falls in love with the waitress, and various battles ensue between the pub rivals. Cast * George Formby as George Harper * Rosalyn Boulter as Mary Colton * Ronald Shiner as Fingers * Ian Fleming as Uncle Shad * Wally Patch as Sprout * Philippa Hiatt as Lavender * Enid Cruickshank as Miss Gummidge * Robert Ginns as Crabtree * Mike Johnson as Toby * Frank Drew as Jed * Daphne Elphinstone as Mit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Didn't Do It (film)
''I Didn't Do It'' is a 1945 British comedy crime film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring George Formby, Dennis Wyndham and Carl Jaffe. Formby's songs include: "She's Got Two Of Everything"' (Cunningham/Towers), "'I'd Like A Dream Like That'" (Formby/Cliffe), and "The Daring Young Man"' (Formby/Cliffe). Because of a realistic murder scene, the film was granted a British 'A' certificate, ensuring no one under the age of 16 would be admitted to the cinema unless accompanied by an adult. Plot A man named George Trotter staying at a theatrical boarding house is framed for a murder. Cast * George Formby as George Trotter * Billy Caryll as Tiger Tubbs * Hilda Mundy as Ma Tubbs * Gaston Palmer as Le Grand Gaston * Jack Daly as Terry O'Rourke * Carl Jaffe as Hilary Vance * Marjorie Browne as Betty Dickinson * Wally Patch as Sergeant Carp * Ian Fleming as Chief Inspector Twyning * Vincent Holman as Erasmus Montague * Dennis Wyndham as Tom Driscoll * Jack Raine as J.B Cato * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Flies (1944 Film)
''Time Flies'' is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Tommy Handley, Evelyn Dall, Felix Aylmer and Moore Marriott. The screenplay concerns two music hall performers, an inventor and a con-man who travel back to Elizabethan era, Elizabethan times using a Time travel, time machine. Plot A professor invents a time sphere which takes a group of 1940s entertainers to Elizabethan London, where they encounter Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh and introduce them to jazz culture. They also meet Captain John Smith and a very heavy-drinking Pocahontas. The main female character meets William Shakespeare and feeds him some of his own lines, which he eagerly writes down. A costume-production, (many of which are immaculate), which makes extensive use of the Gainsborough wardrobe. Cast * Tommy Handley – Tommy * Evelyn Dall – Susie Barton * George Moon – Bill Barton * Felix Aylmer – The Professor * Moore Marriott – A Soothsayer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Exciting Night (1944 Film)
''One Exciting Night'' is a 1944 British musical comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Vera Lynn, Donald Stewart and Mary Clare. The film was also known as ''You Can't Do Without Love''. The screenplay concerns a female singer who becomes involved with a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot. Plot Vera Baker is an aspiring singer desperate for an opportunity to impress producer Michael Thorne. Her chance arrives at a benefit concert that is also the scene of an attempted kidnapping of Thorne by gangsters chasing a priceless Rembrandt. Vera somehow eventually thwarts the villains, and along the way manages to wow the audience with her singing. Cast * Vera Lynn ... Vera Baker * Donald Stewart ... Michael Thorne * Mary Clare ... Mrs. Trout * Frederick Leister ... Hampton * Phyllis Stanley ... Lucille * Cyril Smith ... Joe * Richard Murdoch ... Illusionist * Mavis Villiers ... Mabel * Peggy Anne ... Bessie * Jeanette Redgrave ... Ellen Critical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
He Snoops To Conquer
''He Snoops to Conquer'' is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel starring George Formby, Robertson Hare, Elizabeth Allan and Claude Bailey. Its plot involves an odd job man who becomes mixed up in corruption in politics and town planning. Its title is a paronomasia of the theatre comedy ''She Stoops to Conquer''. Plot The film is set in immediate post-war Britain. After being ordered to do a piece on town planning two newspapermen randomly pick on the small, industrial town of Tangleton. After arriving at the town hall the only man they can find working is the odd job man, George Gribble, who gives them a guided tour of the town. However, they run a negative angle on the story highlighting the fact that the wealthy leader of the council, Mr Oxbold, lives in a giant house by himself while Gribble is one of fourteen staying in a tiny slum house. When they read the article, the town's leaders order Gribble to do a public opinion investigation around the town. Instead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's That Man Again (film)
''It's That Man Again'' is a 1943 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Tommy Handley, Greta Gynt and Jack Train. It was based on Handley's radio show ''It's That Man Again''. In the film, the mayor of a small town lends his assistance to some drama students. Plot The disreputable mayor (Tommy Handley) of small town Foaming-at-the-Mouth gambles the civic accounts and wins a bombed out local theatre. He steals the rights to a new play which he stages in an attempt to save the financial situation. However, local drama students he has cheated turn up and try to ruin the show. Cast * Tommy Handley ... Mayor Handley * Greta Gynt ... Stella Ferris * Jack Train ... Lefty/Funf * Sydney Keith ... Sam Scram * Horace Percival ... Alley-Oop/Cecil * Claude Bailey ... C.B. Cato * Franklyn Bennett ... Hilary Craven * Vera Frances ... Daisy * Dino Galvani ... Signor Soso * Jean Kent ... Kitty * Leonard Sharp ... Claude * Dorothy Summers ... Mrs. Mopp * Clarence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Thank You (film)
''I Thank You'' is a 1941 black and white British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott. It was produced by Edward Black at Gainsborough Pictures. Plot summary The film is set in London during the Second World War at the time of the Blitz. The leads are a couple of out of work variety entertainers who use great ingenuity in their efforts to get financial assistance to "put on a show". Hoping to put their proposal to the formidable Lady Randall, ex-music hall star Lily Morris, they infiltrate her house in the guise of a servant (Murdoch) and cook (Askey - in drag). After some farcical interludes, they achieve their aim after Lady Randall is persuaded to sing an old music hall standard "Waiting at the Church" at an impromptu show located underground at Aldwych tube station, - used during wartime as an underground bomb shelter. As the ex-music hall star, Lily Morris plays herself. The title of the film i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hi Gang! (film)
''Hi Gang!'' is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver. Production It was a spin-off from the popular BBC radio series '' Hi Gang!''. It was made by Gainsborough Pictures at Lime Grove Studios. The film's art direction was by Walter W. Murton. Plot Two married reporters (Daniels and Lyon) in New York City working for rival radio networks engage in cut-throat competition, assisted by an incompetent with big ideas (Oliver). A publicity stunt by the couple to adopt a British evacuee boy live on air goes wrong and they end up adopting Albert (Moffatt) a rowdy pub landlord's son and his cantankerous Uncle Jerry (Marriott). The final third of the film sees them all travel to England in the mistaken belief that Albert is the son of Lord Amersham Amersham ( ) is a market town and civil parish within the unitary authority of Buckinghamshire, England, in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of central London, from Aylesbur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hey! Hey! USA
''Hey! Hey! USA'' is a 1938 British comedy film starring comedian Will Hay, Edgar Kennedy and Eddie Ryan. Hay appears as Benjamin Twist, a porter who accidentally finds himself on a ship bound for the United States. The film features an early appearance by child actor Roddy McDowall, before he went to live in America. Plot outline Benjamin Twist, a teacher working during school holidays as a ship's porter ends up on a ship bound for America and impersonating a professor, Phineas Tavistock. Along with American gangster and stowaway Bugs Leary (Edgar Kennedy), Twist finds himself entangled in a plot to kidnap the son of a millionaire whom 'Professor' Tavistock is teaching. Things are further complicated by the fact that two sets of gangsters are attempting to get their hands on the ransom money, which Twist is given to hand over. Cast * Will Hay - Benjamin Twist/Professor Phineas Tavistock * Edgar Kennedy - Bugs Leary * David Burns - Tony Ricardo * Eddie Ryan - Ace Marco * Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Gambini
''The Great Gambini'' is a 1937 American mystery film directed by Charles Vidor and written by Frederick J. Jackson, Frank Partos and Howard Irving Young. The film stars Akim Tamiroff, Marian Marsh, John Trent, Genevieve Tobin, Reginald Denny, Roland Drew and William Demarest. The film was released on June 25, 1937, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Grant Naylor is unhappy because the woman he loves, Ann Randall, wants to instead marry Stephen Danby, a scoundrel. All are surprised during a performance of The Great Gambini when the magician predicts Ann and Danby will never be wed. His prediction comes true when Danby's dead body is found. Sgt. Kirby questions all of Ann's family and Grant, and a piece of evidence points them to a man who was using a disguise. Grant believes the detective has the wrong man and discovers it's been Gambini himself all along. Gambini confesses on stage, but remains confident because Kirby's handcuffs might not be able to hold him. Cast * Akim Tami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
