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Jean De Briac
Jean De Briac (born Jean-Frederic Weitler, 15 August 1891 – 18 October 1970) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1920 and 1962. He was born in France and died in Los Angeles, California. He immigrated to the United States in 1915. Selected filmography *''The Frisky Mrs. Johnson'' (1920) *''The Love Light'' (1921) * ''High Heels'' (1921) *''The Butterfly Girl'' (1921) * ''The Lady from Longacre'' (1921) *'' The Power of Love'' (1922) *'' Another Man's Shoes'' (1922) *'' One Wonderful Night'' (1922) *''Around the World in Eighteen Days'' (1923) *''The Marriage Market'' (1923) *'' The Iron Man'' (1924) *'' Paris at Midnight'' (1926) *''The Duchess of Buffalo'' (1926) *''The Ladybird'' (1927) *'' Blotto'' (1930) *''Be Big!'' (1931) *'' Wise Girl'' (1937) *'' Swiss Miss'' (1938) *''Wee Wee Monsieur'' (1938) *''Tassels in the Air'' (1938) *''A Chump at Oxford ''A Chump at Oxford'' is a Hal Roach comedy film produced in 1939 and released in 1940 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blotto (1930 Film)
''Blotto'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by James Parrott and starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The short was produced by Hal Roach and originally distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The name of the film relates to the now archaic term "to be blotto" meaning to be very drunk. Plot Set during the Prohibition era, Laurel and Hardy make plans to spend a wild night out at the Rainbow Club. Stan is at home, itching to go out, while his wife nags his every movement. Phoning Stan at home, Ollie at first continually gets Stan saying "wrong number" because his wife is watching. He then suggests a ruse by which Stan is to convince his wife, who keeps him on a short leash, that he has been called away on business. Stan readily agrees to the idea, assuring Ollie that his wife is "so dumb she'll never know the difference". Mrs. Laurel, eavesdropping on a second line in the bedroom, is furious, but continues listening as Stan tells Ollie that he knows where he ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burials At Valley Oaks Memorial Park
Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. This is usually accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objects in it, and covering it over. A funeral is a ceremony that accompanies the final disposition. Humans have been burying their dead since shortly after the origin of the species. Burial is often seen as indicating respect for the dead. It has been used to prevent the odor of decay, to give family members closure and prevent them from witnessing the decomposition of their loved ones, and in many cultures it has been seen as a necessary step for the deceased to enter the afterlife or to give back to the cycle of life. Methods of burial may be heavily ritualized and can include natural burial (sometimes called "green burial"); embalming or mummification; and the use of containers for the dead, such as shrouds, coffins, grave liners, and bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Deaths
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1891 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany. ** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. **Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories. * January 2 – A. L. Drummond of New York is appointed Chief of the Treasury Secret Service. * January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland. * January 5 **The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins. **A fight between the United States and Indians breaks out near Pine Ridge agency. ** Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. **A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, Scotland. * January 6 – Encounters continue, between strikers and the authorities at Glasgow. * January 7 ** General Miles' force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half Past Midnight
''Half Past Midnight'' is a 1948 American comedy murder mystery film. It was William F. Claxton's first directed feature after eight years as a film editor. Plot Kent Taylor plays a man who meets a dancer in a nightclub. She's implicated in a killing, and he's drawn into escaping from the police with her through Chinatown as they seek the real murderer. Cast * Kent Taylor as Wade Hamilton * Peggy Knudsen as Sally Ferris / Sally Parker * Joe Sawyer as Detective Nash * Walter Sande as Detective MacDonald * Martin Kosleck as Cortez * Mabel Paige as Hester Thornwall * Gil Stratton as Chick Patrick * Jean Wong as Blossom Gow * Jane Everett as Carlotta Evans * Damian O'Flynn as Murray Evans * Richard Loo as Lee Gow * Tom Dugan as Bus Tour Guide * Jean De Briac as Nightclub Headwaiter * Willie Best as Nightclub Janitor * Victor Sen Yung Sen Yung, later known professionally as Victor Sen Young (born Sen Yew Cheung; October 18, 1914 – c. November 9, 1980); one source lists hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appointment In Berlin
''Appointment in Berlin'' (also known as ''Assignment in Berlin'') is a 1943 American war drama film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring George Sanders, Marguerite Chapman and Onslow Stevens. The film's plot follows an R.A.F. officer who infiltrates the German high command by broadcasting a series of pro-Nazi messages. Premise After being discharged from the Royal Air Force for anti-British activities, an officer becomes a secret agent for Britain's Secret Service. He denounces his country and poses as a radio personality for Nazi Germany. Cast Production The film's art direction was by Lionel Banks and Walter Holscher Walter Holscher (January 23, 1901 – August 7, 1973) was a German-born American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Selected filmography * ''Louisiana Hayride'' (1944) * ''Rough, Tough .... References Bibliography * Etling, Laurence. ''Radio in the Movies: A History and Filmography, 1926- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enemy Agent
''Enemy Agent'' is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by Lew Landers and starring Richard Cromwell, Helen Vinson, and Robert Armstrong.McLaughlin p.325 The supporting cast includes Jack La Rue, Jack Carson, Philip Dorn and Milburn Stone. It was produced and distributed by Universal Studios Synopsis A network of enemy agents infiltrate an aircraft factory to gain the plans on the United States' war preparations. A draughtsmen at the plant grows suspicious and so they attempt to frame him in the eyes of the FBI investators. Cast * Richard Cromwell as Jimmy Saunders * Helen Vinson as Irene Hunter * Robert Armstrong as Gordon * Marjorie Reynolds as Peggy O'Reilly * Vinton Hayworth as Lester Taylor * Russell Hicks as Lyman Scott * Philip Dorn as Doctor Jeffry Arnold * Jack La Rue as Alex * Bradley Page as Francis * Abner Biberman as Baronoff * Luis Alberni as A. Calteroni * Jack Carson as Ralph * Milburn Stone as Meeker * Henry Victor as Karl * Steve Pendleton as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Chump At Oxford
''A Chump at Oxford'' is a Hal Roach comedy film produced in 1939 and released in 1940 by United Artists. It was directed by Alfred J. Goulding and was the penultimate Laurel and Hardy film made at the Roach studio. The title echoes the film '' A Yank at Oxford'' (1938), of which it is a partial parody. Plot Stan and Ollie are down to their last six bucks. They visit an employment agency, where a call comes from Mrs. Vanderveer looking for a maid and butler to help at a dinner party she is holding that night. Ollie tells the receptionist they can fill the post. They arrive and Stan is dressed in drag, pretending to be the maid "Agnes." At the dinner party, Stan is told to take the cocktails, but instead of clearing them away, he drinks them and becomes drunk. Mr. Vanderveer gets impatient with Ollie's incompetent attempts to seat the guests. When Mr. Vanderveer tells the drunken Stan to "serve up the salad ''without dressing''", Stan serves the salad in his underwear. Mrs. Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tassels In The Air
''Tassels in the Air'' is a 1938 short subject directed by Charley Chase starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 30th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959. Plot Nouveau riche housewife Mrs. Smirch (Bess Flowers) has intentions to hire the in-demand interior decorator Omay (Jean De Briac) to redecorate her house in a bid to get in the "who's who" of the local rich elite. Omay accepts her offer. Meanwhile, the Stooges are hired as painters to redecorate the building where Omay's office is and are given the job of painting temporary names on the doors of all the offices. They, of course, botch the job. It comes out that Curly has a strange proclivity to fly into a blind rage whenever he sees a tassel, placated only with soft tickling of his chin. Mrs. Smirch enters the building and mistakes Moe for Omay (as Moe's n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wee Wee Monsieur
''Wee Wee Monsieur'' is a 1938 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 29th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959. Plot The Stooges are artists (Moe is a sculptor, Larry is a music composer, and Curly is a painter) living in Paris. When the landlord (Harry Semels) comes for their overdue rent and calls the Parisian police on them, the boys skip out and wind up accidentally joining the French Foreign Legion that they confuse with the American Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to guard Captain Gorgonzola ( William Irving) from the natives. When the captain is kidnapped, the boys are given a chance to bring him back alive. The Stooges make their way to the stronghold where the captain was taken, all disguised as Santa Claus (complete with a sleigh and a reindeer). Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
