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Janice Logan
Janice Logan (May 30, 1915 – October 23, 1965) was an American film actress. Early years Logan was a native of Chicago. Her father was Stuart Logan, "one of Chicago's leading investment brokers." Film Logan's film debut came in ''Dr. Cyclops'', in which she played Dr. Mary Robinson. She worked for Paramount in the late 1930s and during the 1940s. She also starred in ''Opened by Mistake'' (1940) with Charles Ruggles. She starred in ''Hotel de verano'', directed by René Cardona in 1944. She was photographed by Leo Matiz Leonet Matiz Espinoza (April 1, 1917 – October 24, 1998) was a Colombian photographer, caricaturist, newspaper publisher, painter and gallery owner. Early life Matiz was born in the small village of Aracataca in the Magdalena Department of Co ... in 1943 during the period of her career when she was filming Mexican movies. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area_tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glendale, California
Glendale is a city in the San Fernando Valley and Verdugo Mountains regions of Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, California, United States. At the 2020 United States Census, 2020 U.S. Census the population was 196,543, up from 191,719 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, making it the fourth-largest city in Los Angeles County and the List of largest California cities by population, 24th-largest city in California. It is located about north of downtown Los Angeles. Glendale lies in the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The city is bordered to the northwest by the Sun Valley, Los Angeles, Sun Valley and Tujunga, Los Angeles, California, Tujunga neighborhoods of Los Angeles; to the northeast by La Cañada Flintridge, California, La Cañada Flintridge and the unincorporated area of La Crescenta, California, La Crescenta; to the west by Burbank, California, Burbank and Griffith Park; to the east by Eagle Rock, Los An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Long Beach)
Forest Lawn-Long Beach is a 38-acre mortuary and memorial garden in Long Beach, California, United States. The gardens were established as Sunnyside Memorial Gardens in 1921 by Cecil E. Bryan, Sr., an entrepreneur whose family operated the facility for three generations. Sunnyside was one of the first major cemeteries in Long Beach. Over the years it served the local area, but fell into disrepair by the 1970s. and was purchased in 1978 by Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries. They renovated the facility, and renamed it Forest Lawn – Sunnyside in deference to its history—later changed to Forest Lawn – Long Beach to match their other properties. The park was built with Spanish Colonial architecture, and has a number of noticeable features. The prominent Spanish Renaissance-style Cathedral Tower was designed by the Bryan family and the architect Clarence L. Jay, and has been a landmark since its construction in 1924–1925. There are elaborately designed doorways and arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opened By Mistake
''Opened by Mistake'' is a 1940 film starring Charlie Ruggles and Janice Logan. Plot Journalist buddies Jimmie Daniels and Buzz Nelson have decided to spend their vacation together at the Latonia horse race track on Yucatán, Mexico. Their plans are seemingly spoiled when their publisher Kingsley orders Jimmie, who is the newspaper's most prominent reporter, to do a story on missing banker Martin James, who stole one million dollars from his bank before disappearing. Buzz comes up with an idea that Jimmie tells the publisher that intelligence places the banker in Yucatán. The publisher buys this argument and the two buddies leave for Mexico, with a thousand dollars in cash to cover the expenses. They quickly lose most of the money on the track, without even so much as lift their eyes to find the missing banker. Somehow Kingley sniffs the scam the two men are pulling and orders Jimmie back to the office immediately. Kingsley plans to meet Jimmie at the boat and disclose the plot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ruggles
Charles Sherman Ruggles (February 8, 1886 – December 23, 1970) was an American comic character actor. In a career spanning six decades, Ruggles appeared in close to 100 feature films, often in mild-mannered and comic roles. He was also the elder brother of director, producer, and silent film actor Wesley Ruggles (1889–1972). Career Ruggles was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1886. Despite training to be a doctor, Ruggles soon found himself on the stage, appearing in a stock production of ''Nathan Hale'' in 1905. At Los Angeles's Majestic Theatre, he played Private Jo Files in L. Frank Baum and Louis F. Gottschalk's musical ''The Tik-Tok Man of Oz'' in 1913. He moved to Broadway to appear in '' Help Wanted'' in 1914. His first screen role came in the silent ''Peer Gynt'' the following year. Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Ruggles continued to appear in silent movies, though his passion remained the stage, appearing in long-running productions such as ''The Passing Show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel De Verano
''Summer Hotel'' (Spanish: ''Hotel de verano'') is a 1944 Mexican comedy film directed by René Cardona.Herrera-Sobek, p. 1080 The film's sets were designed by Manuel Fontanals. Cast * Carlos Amador * Blanquita Amaro * Ramón Armengod * Eva Briseño * Marcelo Chávez * Pedro Elviro * Camilo Farjat * Consuelo Guerrero de Luna * Enrique Herrera * Rafael Icardo * Janice Logan * Pepe Nava * José Pulido * Salvador Quiroz * Jorge Reyes * Alma Riva * Germán Valdés * Pedro Vargas * Carlos Villarías Carlos Villarías (7 July 1892 – 27 April 1976) was a Spanish actor who was born in Córdoba, Spain, and died in California, United States. His most famous role is in the title role of the Spanish-language version of ''Dracula'' (1931), wi ... References Bibliography * Maria Herrera-Sobek. ''Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions''. ABC-CLIO, 2012. External links * 1944 films 1944 comedy films Mexican comedy films 1940s S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Cardona
René Cardona (October 8, 1905 in Havana, Cuba – April 25, 1988, in Mexico City) was a director, actor, producer, screenwriter, and film editor in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Biography René Cardona was born in Havana, Cuba, on October 8, 1905, and began medical school in Cuba, but due to the political problems of the island, he and his family moved to New York City in 1926, where he continued his studies. Economic circumstances experienced by his family caused him to leave his studies. He befriended famous actor Rodolfo Valentino and obtained work as an extra in several films, until 1929 when he produced, wrote, directed and starred in the first Spanish-language film made in Hollywood, ''Sombras habaneras'' (''Havana Shadows''). He also had the opportunity to work in various positions in the film industry such as second assistant, technical advisor and first assistant director, and learned film and lighting technique. In 1932, he moved to Mexico, where he debuted as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Matiz
Leonet Matiz Espinoza (April 1, 1917 – October 24, 1998) was a Colombian photographer, caricaturist, newspaper publisher, painter and gallery owner. Early life Matiz was born in the small village of Aracataca in the Magdalena Department of Colombia to father Tulio Matiz and mother Eva Matiz. His hometown is also the birthplace of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He travelled widely and sold caricatures and illustrations to earn a living. In 1951, Matiz's gallery hosted the first exhibition of Colombian artist Fernando Botero with a showing of his paintings at the Bogotá gallery. Career Matiz was known for his sense of style including a thick slightly long hair, colored jackets, and gangster style mustache. He had a robust laugh and carried his caricatures and drawings in a folder. He was at the center of the bohemian intellectualism of Bogotá, Caracas, Mexico City and other Latin American capital centers. He photographed Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Esther Williams, Janice Logan, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Undercover Doctor
''Undercover Doctor'' is a 1939 American crime film directed by Louis King, written by William R. Lipman and Horace McCoy. The film stars Lloyd Nolan, Janice Logan, J. Carrol Naish, Heather Angel, Broderick Crawford and Robert Wilcox. It was released on June 9, 1939 by Paramount Pictures. Plot Dr. Bartley Morgan appears to be a highly respectable doctor and runs a profitable private practice with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. Underneath his respectable veneer, he is engaged in a range of illegal activities. FBI agent Robert Anders investigates Morgan. Cast *Lloyd Nolan as Robert Anders *Janice Logan as Margaret Hopkins *J. Carrol Naish as Dr. Bartley Morgan * Heather Angel as Cynthia Weld *Broderick Crawford as Eddie Krator * Robert Wilcox as Tom Logan *Richard Carle as Elmer Porter *Stanley Price as Johnny Franklin *John Eldredge as Gordon Kingsley *George Meeker as Dapper Dan Barr *Raymond Hatton as Dizzy Warner *Phil Warren as Spats Edwards *Paul Fix as Monk Jackson *Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What A Life (film)
''What a Life'' is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Theodore Reed and starring Jackie Cooper, Betty Field, John Howard, Janice Logan, Vaughan Glaser, Lionel Stander, and Hedda Hopper. Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, the film was released on October 6, 1939, by Paramount Pictures. This is the first in a series of eleven Henry Aldrich films (1939-1944) based on the leading character from the radio series The Aldrich Family ''The Aldrich Family'', a popular radio teenage situation comedy (July 2, 1939 – April 19, 1953), was also presented in films, television and comic books. In the radio series' opening exchange, awkward teen Henry's mother called, "Hen-''reeeee ... Plot Henry (Jackie Cooper) is falsely accused of making trouble at school. He must clear himself. Cast References External links * * 1939 films 1939 comedy-drama films The Aldrich Family films American black-and-white films American comedy-drama films American films based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Hotel
''Summer Hotel'' (Spanish: ''Hotel de verano'') is a 1944 Mexican comedy film directed by René Cardona.Herrera-Sobek, p. 1080 The film's sets were designed by Manuel Fontanals. Cast * Carlos Amador * Blanquita Amaro * Ramón Armengod * Eva Briseño * Marcelo Chávez * Pedro Elviro * Camilo Farjat * Consuelo Guerrero de Luna * Enrique Herrera * Rafael Icardo * Janice Logan * Pepe Nava * José Pulido * Salvador Quiroz * Jorge Reyes * Alma Riva * Germán Valdés * Pedro Vargas * Carlos Villarías Carlos Villarías (7 July 1892 – 27 April 1976) was a Spanish actor who was born in Córdoba, Spain, and died in California, United States. His most famous role is in the title role of the Spanish-language version of ''Dracula'' (1931), wi ... References Bibliography * Maria Herrera-Sobek. ''Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions''. ABC-CLIO, 2012. External links * 1944 films 1944 comedy films Mexican comedy films 1940s Spani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
