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John Hughes (art Director)
John Hughes (May 23, 1882 – October 2, 1954) was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on more than 90 films between 1921 and 1951. He was born in Missouri and died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography * ''Passion Fruit'' (1921) * ''Youth to Youth'' (1922) * ''June Madness'' (1922) * ''Desire'' (1923) * ''A Boy of Flanders'' (1924) * ''Little Robinson Crusoe'' (1924) * ''A Fool's Awakening'' (1924) * ''The Marriage Whirl'' (1925) * ''The Cruise of the Jasper B'' (1926) * ''The Girl in the Glass Cage'' (1929) * ''Weary River'' (1929) * ''The Naughty Flirt'' (1930) * ''Misbehaving Ladies'' (1931) * ''Party Husband'' (1931) * ''The Reckless Hour'' (1931) * ''The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood'' (1932) * ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1932) * ''Midnight Alibi'' (1934) * ''Harold Teen'' (1934) * ''The Case of the Howling Dog'' (1934) * ''Kansas City Princess'' (1934) * ''Go Into Your Dance'' (1935) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City (abbreviated KC or KCMO) is the largest city in Missouri by population and area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090 in 2020, making it the 36th most-populous city in the United States. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Missouri–Kansas state line and has a population of 2,392,035. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, with portions spilling into Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a port on the Missouri River at its confluence with the Kansas River coming in from the west. On June 1, 1850, the town of Kansas was incorporated; shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory. Confusion between the two ensued, and the name Kansas City was assigned to distinguish them soon after. Sitting on Missouri's western boundary with Kansas, with Downtown near the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, the city encompasses about , making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Naughty Flirt
''The Naughty Flirt'' is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Edward Cline and starring Alice White, Paul Page and Myrna Loy. Plot Attorney Alan Ward (Paul Page) is fed up with the reckless behavior of spoiled heiress Kay Elliott (Alice White) – the daughter of the head of his law firm – who is in love with him. Stung by his rejection, she eventually tells him to "Go jump in the lake." Seeing a chance to make up the money they lost in the stock market crash, a fortune-hunting brother and sister, Jack and Linda Gregory (Douglas Gilmore and Myrna Loy), get Kay to agree to marry Jack. At the altar, she announces that she still loves Alan, and he comes to his senses and realizes he loves her too. Cast *Alice White as Katherine Constance "Kay" Elliott *Paul Page as Alan Joseph Ward *Myrna Loy as Linda Gregory *Robert Agnew as Wilbur Fairchild *Douglas Gilmore as John Thomas "Jack" Gregory * George Irving as John Raleigh Elliott *Sayre Dearing as Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daughters Courageous
''Daughters Courageous'' is a 1939 American drama film starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn and featuring the Lane Sisters: Lola Lane, Rosemary Lane and Priscilla Lane. Based on the play ''Fly Away Home'' by Dorothy Bennett and Irving White, the film was directed by Michael Curtiz. It was released by Warner Bros. on June 23, 1939. Plot Freewheeling Jim Masters returns home after a 20-year absence, during which he was declared dead, to find that his wife, Nancy, is about to marry Sam Sloane, a stable local man in Carmel, California. She must now choose between her ex-husband and her new fiancé. The Masters daughters are also upset that their irresponsible father has re-entered their lives after so long an absence. Meanwhile, the youngest daughter, Buff, is drawn to tough-guy Gabriel Lopez, a man that reminds Jim Masters of himself. Cast * John Garfield as Gabriel Lopez * Claude Rains as Jim Masters * Jeffrey Lynn as Johnny Heming * Fay Bainter as Nancy Masters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dawn Patrol (1938 Film)
''The Dawn Patrol'' is a 1938 American war film, a remake of the pre-Code 1930 film of the same name. Both were based on the short story "The Flight Commander" by John Monk Saunders,"Notes: The Dawn Patrol (1938)." ''Turner Classic Movies''. Retrieved: October 5, 2022 an American writer said to have been haunted by his inability to get into combat as a flyer with the U.S. Air Service.Finnie, Moir "John Monk Saunders: Something in the Air." ''Skeins of Thought'', 2004. Retrieved: Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Petrified Forest
''The Petrified Forest'' is a 1936 American film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 Broadway drama of the same name. The motion picture stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay was written by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon, and adaptations were later performed on radio and television. The film is set in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Plot In the midst of the Great Depression, Alan Squier, a failed British writer, now a disillusioned, penniless drifter, wanders into a roadside diner in the remote town of Black Mesa, Arizona, at the edge of the Petrified Forest. The diner is run by Jason Maple, his daughter Gabrielle, and Gramp, Jason's father, who regales anyone who will listen with stories of his adventures in the Old West with such characters as Billy the Kid. Gabrielle's mother, a French war bride who fell in love with Jason when he was a young, handsome American serviceman, left her "dull defeated man" af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go Into Your Dance
''Go into Your Dance'' is a 1935 American musical drama film starring Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, and Glenda Farrell. The film was directed by Archie Mayo and is based on the novel of the same name by Bradford Ropes. It was released by Warner Bros. on April 20, 1935. An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters. Plot Broadway star Al Howard (Al Jolson) has a habit of walking out on hit shows. His sister Molly (Glenda Farrell) promises his agent he will never do it again, but he is banned from Broadway. Molly tracks Al down in Mexico, where he is on a binge and tells him she is done taking care of him. When Molly runs into Dorothy Wayne (Ruby Keeler) a friend who is a dancer, she begs Dorothy to form a team with Al, because she can get Al a job if he has a partner. At first Molly is reluctant but finally agreed. It takes some work to convince Al, but he eventually agrees to form a team with Dorothy. They become a big success in Chicago. Dorothy falls in lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas City Princess
''Kansas City Princess'' is a 1934 American comedy film starring Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell. The film was directed by William Keighley with a script written by Sy Bartlett and Manuel Seff. Warner Bros. sought to duplicate the success of ''Havana Widows'' (1933) by pairing Blondell and Farrell as a comedy duo of blonde bombshells; ''Kansas City Princess'' was the third film to feature this pairing. The film was released by Warner Bros. on October 13, 1934. Plot Kansas City manicurist Rosie Sturges is in a relationship with minor gangster Dynamite Carson. Her friend and roommate Marie Callahan is a fellow manicurist seeking a rich husband. Marie dislikes Dynamite and urges Rosie to drop him. With Dynamite out of town, Marie prompts Rosie to take a date with customer Jimmy the Duke. However, the girls do not know that Jimmy is an associate of Dynamite, who is furious to learn that Marie has been dating behind his back. Fearing Dynamite's anger, Rosie and Marie leave Kansas C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Case Of The Howling Dog
''The Case of the Howling Dog'' is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Alan Crosland, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Erle Stanley Gardner. The film stars Warren William and Mary Astor. This was the first in a series of four films in which William played Perry Mason. The next three films in the series were ''The Case of the Curious Bride'' (1935), ''The Case of the Lucky Legs'' (1935), and ''The Case of the Velvet Claws'' (1936). Warner Bros. made six Perry Mason films between the years 1934 and 1937, when the series ended. Ricardo Cortez took over the role of Perry Mason in the fifth film, ''The Case of the Black Cat'' (1936), then Donald Woods became Mason in the sixth, ''The Case of the Stuttering Bishop'' (1937). Each film in the series featured a different actress portraying Della Street. The characters were revived in the popular CBS television series ''Perry Mason'' which starred Raymond Burr as Perry Mason. Plot Severely agitated by the howling of a po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Teen
''Harold Teen'' is a discontinued, long-running American comic strip written and drawn by Carl Ed (pronounced "eed"). Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson may have suggested and certainly approved the strip's concept, loosely based on Booth Tarkington's successful novel ''Seventeen''. The strip ran from 1919 to 1959. Asked in the late 1930s why he had started the strip, Ed answered, "Twenty years ago, there was no comic strip on adolescence. I thought every well-balanced comic sheet should have one." Sundaes on Sunday Under the title ''The Love Life of Harold Teen'', it debuted as a Sunday strip in the ''Chicago Tribune'' on May 4, 1919, and a few months later it was nationally syndicated by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. A daily strip was added later that year. The strip was so successful in depicting the Jazz Age that it became a minor cultural icon of its time. The principal characters were Covina High School student Harold Teen, his girlfriend Lillums Lovewell, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Alibi
''Midnight Alibi'' is a 1934 pre-Code crime comedy-drama directed by Alan Crosland, produced by First National Pictures, distributed by Warner Bros. and starring Richard Barthelmess. Midnight Alibi is an adaptation of Damon Runyon's 1933 short story ''The Old Doll's House''. Barthelmess plays a gangster who returns to New York after some time in Europe and falls in love with Joan (Dvorak), unaware that she's the younger sister of his bitter rival, Angie the Ox (Barrat). After an attempted hit on him, he seeks refuge in the home of an old lady (Lowell), who tells him of her own romance many years ago with a man who looked just like him (also Barthelmess; Chandler plays her in the flashback). Their friendship will prove useful later when he's accused of murder. This was Barthelmess' last film for First National after a 15-year run at the studio. Jack Warner was anxious to get rid of him because the grosses of his films no longer justified his $250,000 salary. A print of the film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherlock Holmes (1932 Film)
''Sherlock Holmes'' (a.k.a. ''Conan Doyle's Master Detective Sherlock Holmes'') is a 1932 American Pre-Code film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. The movie is based on the successful stage play ''Sherlock Holmes'' by William Gillette, in turn based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, and is directed by William K. Howard for the Fox Film Corporation. Brook had played Holmes previously in '' The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' and the "Murder Will Out" segment of ''Paramount on Parade''. Reginald Owen plays Dr. Watson, and Ernest Torrence is Holmes's arch-rival, Professor Moriarty. Reginald Owen played Sherlock Holmes the following year in ''A Study in Scarlet''. Owen is one of a small number of actors to play both Holmes and Watson. Examples of other such actors include Jeremy Brett, who played Watson on stage in the United States and, most famously, Holmes on British television, Carleton Hobbs, who played both roles in British radio adaptations, and Patric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cohens And Kellys In Hollywood
''The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by John Francis Dillon and written by Howard J. Green. The film stars George Sidney, Charles Murray, June Clyde, Norman Foster, Esther Howard, and Emma Dunn. The film was released on March 28, 1932, by Universal Pictures. Cast *George Sidney as Sidney Nathan Cohen *Charles Murray as Michael Kelly *June Clyde as Kitty Kelly *Norman Foster as Maurice Cohen *Esther Howard as Mrs. Maggie Kelly *Emma Dunn as Mrs. Sarah Cohen *Eileen Percy as Eileen Percy * Edwin Maxwell as Chauncey Chadwick *Luis Alberni as Bladimir Petrosky *John Roche as Gregory Gordon *Robert Greig as Chesterfield *Dorothy Christy as Mrs. Chauncey Chadwick *Harry Barris as Pianist *Frank Albertson as Frank Albertson *Lew Ayres as Lew Ayers * Sidney Fox as Sidney Fox * Genevieve Tobin as Genevieve Tobin *Tom Mix Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix; January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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