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Jack Baxley
Andrew Jackson Baxley (July 4, 1884 – December 10, 1950) was an American character actor of the 1930s and 1940s. He appeared in over 100 films over his career, many in unnamed, un-credited roles. Occasionally he would receive small, named roles, and rarely a featured role. Life and career Born in Dallas, Texas, prior to becoming an actor Baxley worked in circuses and carnivals as a side-show barker. He made his film debut at the age of 47 in the 1930 Greta Garbo classic, ''Anna Christie'', as a barker at Coney Island. It would be a character he portrayed frequently in films. Some of his more prominent roles included: Mathews in '' International Crime'' (1938); Judge Culpepper in ''Mr. Celebrity'' (1941); Sheriff Verner in '' Gallant Lady'' (1942); and in the featured role of Bill White in ''The Kid from Gower Gulch'' (1949), in one of his final performances. Select filmography (Per AFI database) * ''Possessed'' (1931) * ''Faithless'' (1932) * '' Straight Is the Way'' (1934 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallant Lady (1942 Film)
'' Gallant Lady'' is a 1942 American drama film directed by William Beaudine. It stars Rose Hobart, Sidney Blackmer, Claire Rochelle, and Lynn Starr. Cast *Rose Hobart as Rosemary Walsh *Sidney Blackmer as Steve Carey *Claire Rochelle as Nellie * Lynn Starr as Linda *Jane Novak as Lucy Walker *Vince Barnett as Baldy *Jack Baxley as Sheriff Verner *Crane Whitley as Pete Saunders * John Ince as Judge Stevens *Frank Brownlee as Luke Walker * Richard Clarke as Nick Morelli *Spec O'Donnell as Ben Walker * Inez Cole as Jane * Pat McKee as Jed Hicks *Ruby Dandridge Ruby Jean Dandridge (née Butler; March 3, 1900 – October 17, 1987) was an American actress from the early 1900s through to the late 1950s. Dandridge is best known for her role on the radio show ''Amos 'n Andy'', in which she played Sadie ... as Sarah References External links * 1942 films 1942 crime drama films 1940s prison films American black-and-white films Films directed by William Beaudine Warne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Little Girl
''Our Little Girl'' is a 1935 American drama, in which Shirley Temple and Joel McCrea play the leading roles. The film was the final work of the veteran director, John S. Robertson. The protagonist, Molly Middleton (Temple), is the daughter of a physician, Donald Middleton (McCrea), and his neglected wife, Elsa (Rosemary Ames), who becomes attracted to her husband's best friend, Rolfe Brent (Lyle Talbot). ''Our Little Girl'' is largely overshadowed not only by its predecessors, '' Bright Eyes'' and '' The Little Colonel'', but also its immediate successors, ''Curly Top'' and ''The Littlest Rebel'' — all major hits for Temple that launched her international stardom. Unlike her other films of this period, it included no dancing and only one song. She played a character neither partially nor completely orphaned, as she had, or would, in nearly all of her other films. ''Our Little Girl'' was the penultimate film by Temple during her time at Fox in which she did not play an orphan. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Dear Miss Aldrich
''My Dear Miss Aldrich'' is a 1937 low-budget comedy film starring Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, and Edna May Oliver about a young woman who inherits a New York City newspaper and decides to become a reporter rather than a publisher. Plot Martha Aldrich (O'Sullivan) is a young woman from Nebraska who inherits a New York City newspaper from a distant relative. She's accompanied to New York by her aunt, Mrs. Lou Atherton (Oliver). Editor Ken Morley (Pidgeon), whose ''Globe-Leader'' newspaper is in hot competition with the ''Chronicle'', refuses to hire a woman as a journalist. But as owner, Aldrich demands to be hired and is. She quickly scoops the male staff on a royal birth. But when she keeps a society friend's wedding a secret, Morley fires her. Determined to win her job back, Aldrich spies on industrialist Talbot (Walter Kingsford) and trade union leader Sinclair (Paul Harvey) as they secretly negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement. Believing Aldrich has been kid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merry-Go-Round Of 1938
''Merry-Go-Round of 1938'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and written by Monte Brice and A. Dorian Otvos. The film stars Bert Lahr, Jimmy Savo, Billy House, Alice Brady, Mischa Auer, Joy Hodges, Louise Fazenda, John 'Dusty' King and Barbara Read. The film was released on November 14, 1937, by Universal Pictures. Plot Cast *Bert Lahr as Bert *Jimmy Savo as Jimmy *Billy House as Billy *Alice Brady as Aunt Hortense *Mischa Auer as Mischa *Joy Hodges as Sally Brown *Louise Fazenda as Mrs. Penelope Updike *John 'Dusty' King as Tony Townsend *Barbara Read as Clarice Stockbridge *Dave Apollon as Dave Apollon *Richard Carle as Col. J. Addison Frooks *Howard Cantonwine as Hector *Charles Williams as Dave Clark *Joyce Kay as Sally *Fay Helm as Dainty Doris *John Kelly (actor), John Kelly as Bus Driver *Beverly Ann Welch as Trap drummer References External links * {{Irving Cummings 1937 films 1930s English-language films American comedy films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Goes To College
''Murder Goes to College'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Brian Marlow, Eddie Welch and Robert Wyler. The film stars Roscoe Karns, Marsha Hunt, Lynne Overman, Buster Crabbe, Astrid Allwyn and Harvey Stephens. The film was released on February 24, 1937, by Paramount Pictures. Karns' and Overman's private-eye characters were reteamed for a sequel, '' Partners in Crime'', later that year. Plot Cast *Roscoe Karns as Sim Perkins * Marsha Hunt as Nora Barry *Lynne Overman as Henry 'Hank' Hyer *Buster Crabbe as Strike Belno * Astrid Allwyn as Greta Barry *Harvey Stephens as Paul Broderick *Purnell Pratt as President Arthur L. McShean *Barlowe Borland as Dean Wilfred Everett Olney *Earle Foxe as Tom Barry *Anthony Nace as Howard Sayforth *Ellen Drew Ellen Drew (born Esther Loretta Ray; November 23, 1914 – December 3, 2003) was an American film actress. Early life Drew, born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1914, was the daughter of an I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wells Fargo (film)
''Wells Fargo'' is a 1937 American Western film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Joel McCrea, Bob Burns and Frances Dee. Plot In the early 1840s, Wells & Fargo employee Ramsay MacKay comes upon a broken-down carriage in the countryside and gives belle Justine Pryor and her mother a lift into Buffalo, New York, though he warns them he is in a hurry to make a delivery of fresh oysters. The ladies endure a very bumpy ride, and he arrives in time to enable his employer, Henry Wells, to impress some bankers with the speed of his service. Wells sends him to set up a branch office in St. Louis, which is quite convenient, as the Pryors reside there. MacKay and Justine begin seeing each other, though her mother disapproves, as does Justine's more socially prominent suitor, Talbot Carter. Impressed with MacKay, in 1846, Wells sends him to open trails to California. MacKay takes along Hank York, a frontiersman who only works when he has to, and Hank's constant Indian companion, Pawn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Of The People (film)
''Man of the People'' is a 1937 American drama film directed by Edwin L. Marin and written by Frank Dolan. The film stars Joseph Calleia, Florence Rice, Thomas Mitchell, Ted Healy and Catherine Doucet. The film was released on January 29, 1937, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot All that attorney Jack Moreno wants to do is help his friends and the people from his neighbourhood, but in order to make a living he has to do business with the mob. Cast *Joseph Calleia as Jack Moreno *Florence Rice as Abbey * Thomas Mitchell as Grady *Ted Healy as Joe 'The Glut' *Catherine Doucet as Mrs. Reid * Paul Stanton as Stringer * Jonathan Hale as Carter Spetner *Robert Emmett Keane as Murphy *Jane Barnes as Marie Rossetti *William Ricciardi as 'Pop' Rossetti *Noel Madison as 'Dopey' Benny *Soledad Jiménez as Mrs. Rossetti *Edward Nugent as Edward Spetner *Donald Briggs Donald Briggs (January 28, 1911 – February 3, 1986) was an American actor, who appeared in over 75 films and television s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Ziegfeld
''The Great Ziegfeld'' is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Hunt Stromberg. It stars William Powell as the theatrical impresario Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld Jr., Luise Rainer as Anna Held, and Myrna Loy as Billie Burke. The film, shot at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Culver City, California in the fall of 1935, is a fictionalized and sanitized tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and a cinematic adaptation of Broadway's Ziegfeld Follies, with highly elaborate costumes, dances and sets. Many of the performers of the theatrical Ziegfeld Follies were cast in the film as themselves, including Fanny Brice and Harriet Hoctor, and the real Billie Burke acted as a supervisor for the film. The " A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" set alone was reported to have cost US$220,000 (US$ in dollars), featuring a towering rotating volute of diameter with 175 spiral steps, weighing 100 tons. The music to the film was provided by Walter Donaldson, Irving Berl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco (1936 Film)
''San Francisco'' is a 1936 musical-drama disaster film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy. MacDonald's singing helped make this film a major hit, coming on the heels of her other 1936 blockbuster, ''Rose Marie''. Plot On New Year's Eve, 1905, saloon keeper "Blackie" Norton hires Mary Blake to sing in his bar, the ''Paradise Club'' on Pacific Street in the notorious Barbary Coast of San Francisco. Mary becomes a star attraction at the ''Paradise'', especially for her signature tune, "San Francisco". Blackie's friend Matt predicts that Mary will not stay long on the "Coast". Blackie decides to run for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at the behest of his childhood friend Father Tim Mullen, who believes Blackie can use the supervisor position to implement reform. Mary is hired by the Tivoli Opera House on Market Street, where she becomes involved with Nob Hill sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonlight Murder
''Moonlight Murder'' is a 1936 American crime film directed by Edwin L. Marin and written by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf. The film stars Chester Morris, Madge Evans, Leo Carrillo, Frank McHugh, Benita Hume, Grant Mitchell, Katharine Alexander and J. Carrol Naish. The film was released on March 27, 1936, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot An amateur detective gets a chance to test his sleuthing skills when an opera singer is murdered at the Hollywood Bowl. Cast *Chester Morris as Steve Farrell *Madge Evans as Toni Adams *Leo Carrillo as Gino D'Acosta *Frank McHugh as William *Benita Hume as Diana * Grant Mitchell as Dr. Adams *Katharine Alexander as Louisa Chiltern *J. Carrol Naish as Bejac *H. B. Warner as Godfrey Chiltern ... *Duncan Renaldo as Pedro *Leonard Ceeley as Ivan Bosloff *Robert McWade as Police Chief Quinlan * Pedro de Cordoba as Swami *Charles Trowbridge Charles Silas Richard Trowbridge (January 10, 1882 – October 30, 1967) was an American film a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poppy (1936 Film)
''Poppy'' is a 1936 comedy film starring W. C. Fields and Rochelle Hudson. The film was based on a 1923 stage revue of the same name starring Fields and Madge Kennedy. This was the second film version of the revue featuring Fields, following '' Sally of the Sawdust'' in 1925 with Carol Dempster in the title role. Plot Eustace McGargle , a con artist, snake oil salesman and shell game trickster, tries to escape the sheriff while taking care of his beloved adopted daughter Poppy, who, after pretending to be an heiress to win an inheritance, is found to be an actual heiress. Cast *W. C. Fields as Professor Eustace McGargle *Rochelle Hudson as Poppy *Richard Cromwell as Billy Farnsworth *Catherine Doucet as Countess Maggi Tubbs DePuizzi *Lynne Overman as Attorney Whiffen *Granville Bates as Mayor Farnsworth *Maude Eburne as Sarah Tucker *Bill Wolfe as Egmont *Adrian Morris as Constable Bowman *Rosalind Keith as Frances Parker *Ralph Remley as Carnival Manager Production Fields was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnival (1935 Film)
''Carnival'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Jimmy Durante and Sally Eilers. The film also includes a young Lucille Ball in a small uncredited role as a nurse. Cast *Lee Tracy as Chick Thompson *Sally Eilers as Dasiy *Jimmy Durante as Fingers *Florence Rice Florence Davenport Rice (February 14, 1907 – February 23, 1974) was an American film actress. Early years Florence Davenport Rice was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the only child of the noted sportswriter Grantland Rice and Fannie Katherine ... as Miss Holbrook * Thomas E. Jackson as Mac *Dickie Walters as Poochy (as John Richard Walters) References External links * 1935 films Films directed by Walter Lang Columbia Pictures films Films with screenplays by Robert Riskin 1935 romantic comedy films American romantic comedy films American black-and-white films 1930s American films {{1930s-romantic-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
