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Jess Barker
Jess Barker (June 4, 1912 – August 8, 2000) was an American actor who was active between the 1940s and 1970s. He was best known as the first husband of actress Susan Hayward. Early years Barker was born in Greenville, South Carolina. Career Barker began his film career credited as Philip Barker until changing his stage name to Jess Barker in the early 1940s. Barker's movie career was damaged because of the publicity resulting from a bitter custody dispute, but he still managed to find work as an actor on radio and films in supporting roles. Barker appeared as an art critic in Fritz Lang's ''Scarlet Street'' (1945) and the Abbott and Costello film ''The Time of Their Lives'' (1946). He also made two guest appearances on ''Perry Mason''. In 1961 he played defendant Walter Eastman in "The Case of the Injured Innocent," and in 1965 he played Doug Hamilton in "The Case of the Murderous Mermaid." Personal life Barker wed Susan Hayward Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrenner; J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarlet Street
''Scarlet Street'' is a 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang. The screenplay concerns two criminals who take advantage of a middle-aged painter in order to steal his artwork. The film is based on the French novel ''La Chienne'' (literally ''The Bitch'') by Georges de La Fouchardière, which had been previously dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as ''La Chienne'' (1931) by director Jean Renoir. The principal actors Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea had earlier appeared together in '' The Woman in the Window'' (1944), also directed by Lang. Local authorities in New York, Milwaukee, and Atlanta banned ''Scarlet Street'' early in 1946 because of its dark plot and themes. The film is in the public domain. Plot New York, 1934 – Christopher "Chris" Cross, a meek amateur painter and cashier for a clothing retailer, is fêted by his employer for 25 years of service. After presenting Chris with a gold watch and kind words, company head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senorita From The West
''Senorita from the West'' is a 1945 American comedy-drama film directed by Frank Strayer from an original screenplay by Howard Dimsdale. The picture stars Allan Jones and Bonita Granville, and was released by Universal Pictures on October 12, 1945. Plot Cast list * Allan Jones as Phil Bradley * Bonita Granville as Jeannie Blake * Jess Barker as Tim Winters * George Cleveland as Cap * Fuzzy Knight as Rosebud * Oscar O'Shea as Dusty * Renny McEvoy as William Wylliams * Olin Howlin as Justice of Peace * Danny Mummert as Kid * Bob Merrill as Elmer * Emmett Vogan as Producer * Billy Nelson as Taxi driver * Jack Clifford as Motor cop * Spade Cooley Donnell Clyde "Spade" Cooley (December 17, 1910 – November 23, 1969) was an American convicted murderer and former Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality. In 1961 he was arrested and convicted for the Ap ... as himself References External links * * * American black-and-white fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Bad Sisters
''Three Bad Sisters'' is a 1956 American film noir crime film directed by Gilbert Kay, written by Gerald Drayson Adams and starring Marla English, Kathleen Hughes, Sara Shane, John Bromfield and Jess Barker. It was released in January 1956 by United Artists. Plot Valerie, Vicki and Lorna Craig are the daughters of a man worth $40 million who is killed in a Wyoming plane crash. The pilot, Jim Norton, was unharmed. Jim is unable to fly while the crash is investigated. Valerie offers him $200,000 to seduce and abandon her sister Lorna, executor of their father's will. Lorna is engaged to George Gurney, their father's attorney. Jim finds her contemplating a leap from a high cliff into the water, dared by Valerie to do it. Valerie threatens to frame Jim for murdering her father if he refuses to cooperate. Then Vicki makes romantic advances, trying to lure Jim away from her sister's clutches. Valerie lashes her with a whip, scarring her face. Vicki flees in a car, crashes and is kille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shack Out On 101
''Shack Out on 101'' is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Edward Dein and starring Terry Moore, Frank Lovejoy, Keenan Wynn and Lee Marvin. Plot Slob (Marvin), the lecherous short-order cook at the seaside greasy-spoon diner of sarcastic war veteran George (Wynn), lusts after sexy waitress Kotty (Moore). Also interested in Kotty is a scientist (Lovejoy), who spends the better part of his free time at the diner's counter. He works down the highway at a top-secret military base. As it turns out, Slob is not just a short-order cook but also a spy using the diner as a home base for smuggling nuclear secrets out of the country through a connection with one of the diner's regulars. Cast * Terry Moore as Kotty * Frank Lovejoy as Prof. Sam Bastion * Keenan Wynn as George * Lee Marvin as Slob / Mr. Gregory * Whit Bissell as Eddie * Jess Barker as Artie * Donald Murphy as Pepe * Frank DeKova as Prof. Claude Dillon * Len Lesser as Perch * Fred Gabourie as Lookout See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kentucky Rifle (film)
Kentucky Rifle is a 1955 American Western movie starring a buckskin-clad Chill Wills and featuring Cathy Downs, Sterling Holloway and Henry Hull, involving smuggling a wagon filled with rifles past American Indian tribes already aware of the subterfuge. The picture was directed by Carl K. Hittleman. Plot The film opens with a wagon train sequence. Jason Clay is a cowboy with several cases of Kentucky Rifles heading out to California when his wagon breaks down. Unfortunately, the axle is broken as well as the wheel, forcing Clay, his mentor Tobias, and others—Lonnie Settler, Luke, Preachur Bently, Amy Connors and her boyfriend Fostner and the Hays (with the wife Cordy expecting a child)--to scout for a piece of sturdy wood to mend their axle. In the process, they encounter some Indians. The next day, Jason finds that Luke (who was forced to stay with the group against his will by the leader of the wagon train) has left them. He finds him killed by Comanche Indians. Fostner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragonfly Squadron
''Dragonfly Squadron'' is a 1954 American war film directed by Lesley Selander and starring John Hodiak, Barbara Britton and Bruce Bennett. The film is set in the period shortly before and during the invasion of South Korea by North Korean troops. ''Dragonfly Squadron'' was originally intended to be released as a 3D film, and therefore was filmed in 3D film#The "golden era" (1952–1954), dual 35mm Polaroid 3-D.Furmanek, Bob"Review: 'Dragonfly Squadron'."''3-D Film Archive''. Retrieved: May 23, 2016. Interest in 3D films, however, greatly diminished towards the end of 1953, so when the film premiered in Los Angeles on January 27, 1954, and went on general release on March 21, 1954, only flat prints were shown. Plot In May 1950, Major Matt Brady (John Hodiak) is redeployed to Pusan, South Korea. His mission there is to train South Korean pilots in the defensive struggle. Also, there are air support exercises in case the Americans need to be evacuated. Colonel Schuller (Richard Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marry Me Again
''Marry Me Again'' is a 1953 comedy film written and directed by Frank Tashlin. It stars Robert Cummings and Marie Wilson. Plot Bill has an unusual dilemma when he returns home from the war in Korea, where he had been a pilot. Out of pride, he wants to provide the sole support for Doris and their family, but Doris isn't sure what to do because she has just inherited a fortune. Cast * Robert Cummings as Bill * Marie Wilson as Doris * Ray Walker as Mac * Mary Costa as Joan * Jess Barker as Jenkins * Lloyd Corrigan as Mr. Taylor * June Vincent as Miss Craig * Richard Gaines as Dr. Pepperdine * Moroni Olsen as Mr. Courtney * Frank Cady Frank Randolph Cady (September 8, 1915 – June 8, 2012) was an American actor best known for his role as storekeeper Sam Drucker in three American television series during the 1960s – ''Petticoat Junction'', ''Green Acres'', and ' ... as Dr. Day Production The film was announced in March 1953 based on a story by producer Alex Gott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Milkman
''The Milkman'' is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Charles Barton and starring Donald O'Connor, Jimmy Durante and Piper Laurie. Plot Roger Bradley is denied a milkman job at his father's company because of his postwar trauma; when he becomes stressed or frustrated, he quacks like a duck. In revenge, Roger secures a job with his father's archrival Breezy Albright at another milk company. Roger becomes very successful and quickly falls in love with the boss's daughter Chris Abbott. Cast * Donald O'Connor as Roger Bradley * Jimmy Durante as Breezy Albright * Piper Laurie as Chris Abbott * Joyce Holden as Ginger Burton * William Conrad as Mike Morrel * Henry O'Neill as Bradley Sr. * Paul Harvey as D.A. Abbott * Jess Barker as John Carter * Elisabeth Risdon as Mrs. Carter * Frank Nelson as Mr. Green * Charles Flynn as Sgt. Larkin * Garry Owen as Irving * John Cliff John Cliff (7 March 1883 – 18 October 1977) was the first Assistant General Secretary of the Transport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Marie Michel Philippe Fréteau De Saint-Just
Emmanuel Marie Michel Philippe Fréteau de Saint-Just (28 March 1745 – 14 June 1794) was a French nobleman and an elected representative of the Second Estate during the French Revolution. He was a politically liberal deputy to the Estates-General of 1789 and worked for the cause of constitutional monarchy. In 1789, Fréteau de Saint-Just served two terms as President of the National Constituent Assembly. Assemblée nationale de Francebr>"Emmanuel, Marie, Michel, Philippe Fréteau de Saint-Just"Retrieved 15 May 2017 As the Revolution became more radical, Fréteau de Saint-Just became politically marginalized, and by 1792 he had retired from national politics completely. Nonetheless, his aristocratic background drew increasing ire from militant revolutionaries until he was finally arrested and executed at the guillotine in 1794 during the Reign of Terror. Biography Fréteau de Saint-Just was Seigneur of Vaux-le-Pénil and Saint-Liesne, estates located just outside Paris, acq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reign Of Terror (film)
''Reign of Terror'' (reissued as ''The Black Book'') is a 1949 American spy and thriller film directed by Anthony Mann and starring Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart and Arlene Dahl. The film is set during the French Revolution. Plotters seek to bring down Maximilien Robespierre and end his bloodthirsty Reign of Terror. Plot Already the most powerful man in France, Maximilien Robespierre (Richard Basehart) wants to become the nation's Dictator. He summons François Barras ( Richard Hart), the only man who can nominate him before the National Convention. Barras refuses to do so and goes into hiding. Meanwhile, patriot Charles D'Aubigny (Robert Cummings) secretly kills and impersonates Duval (Charles Gordon), the bloodstained prosecutor of Strasbourg, who had been summoned to Paris by Robespierre for some unknown purpose (which Robespierre's enemies want very much to ascertain). Neither Robespierre nor Fouché (Arnold Moss), the chief of his secret police, have met Duval before, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take One False Step
''Take One False Step'' is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Chester Erskine and starring William Powell and Shelley Winters. Plot Married college professor Andrew Gentling reluctantly agrees to have a drink with Catherine Sykes, a wartime girlfriend. He is careful to avoid scandal as a founding professor of a new university. However, the next day Catherine is reported missing and is feared to have been murdered after a bloody scarf was found at her ransacked home. Catherine's friend Martha Wier, whom Andrew had also known previously, informs him that Catherine had been romantically involved with Freddie Blair, a crime partner of Catherine's husband. Andrew tries to retrieve Catherine's diary containing evidence of the affair from her bedroom, but he is attacked by a dog and suffers a deep cut on his hand. Andrew flees but soon hears a news report that the dog who had attacked him was found to be rabid. As doctors in the area have been advised to immediately report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idea Girl
''Idea Girl'' is a 1946 American comedy film directed by Will Jason and written by Charles R. Marion and Elwood Ullman. The film stars Jess Barker, Julie Bishop, Alan Mowbray, George Dolenz, Joan Shawlee and Laura Deane Dutton. The film was released on February 8, 1946, by Universal Pictures. Plot Cast *Jess Barker as Larry Brewster *Julie Bishop as Pat O'Rourke *Alan Mowbray as J.C. Crow *George Dolenz as Wilfred Potts *Joan Shawlee as Mabel *Laura Deane Dutton as Cynthia Winters * Arthur Q. Bryan as P.J. Maple *Sarah Padden as Old lady *Ruth Lee as Abigail Hawthorne *Virginia Christine as Evelina *Maurice Cass as Arturo Coveleski *Barton Yarborough as Pete Barlow *Charlie Barnet Charles Daly Barnet (October 26, 1913 – September 4, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. His major recordings were "Skyliner", "Cherokee", "The Wrong Idea", "Scotch and Soda", "In a Mizz", and "Southland Shuffle ... as Orchestra Leader References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
