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Jerome Thoms
Jerome Thoms (October 7, 1907 – November 1, 1977) was an American film editor. He edited ''Blondie's Big Moment'' (1947), ''Blondie's Holiday'' (1947), '' The Chance of a Lifetime'' (1943), '' A Close Call for Boston Blackie'' (1946), ''The Devil's Mask'' (1946), ''The Crimson Kimono'' (1959), '' Underworld USA'' (1960), ''Shock Corridor'' (1963), ''The Naked Kiss'' (1964), ''West of Sonora'' (1948), and ''So Dark the Night'' (1946). He also edited ''What Makes Lizzy Dizzy?'' (1942) and ''Tireman, Spare my Tires'' (1942). In '' Screaming Mimi'' (1958) he worked with Gene Havlick. Jerome Thoms' editing in ''The Crimson Kimono'' adds a percussive force to many of the action scenes. He worked as art director in ''Escape in the Fog'' (1945). Selected filmography * ''The Sea Bat'' (1930) * ''In the Sweet Pie and Pie'' (1941) * ''She's Oil Mine'' (1941) * ''What's the Matador?'' (1942) * ''Three Smart Saps'' (1942) * '' Sock-a-Bye Baby'' (1942) * ''Dizzy Detectives'' (1943) * ''Two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltimore
Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851, and today is the most populous independent city in the United States. As of 2021, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be 2,838,327, making it the 20th largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about north northeast of Washington, D.C., making it a principal city in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA), the third-largest CSA in the nation, with a 2021 estimated population of 9,946,526. Prior to European colonization, the Baltimore region was used as hunting grounds by the Susquehannock Native Americans, who were primarily settled further northwest than where the city was later built. Colonist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screaming Mimi (film)
''Screaming Mimi'' is a 1958 American film noir directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Anita Ekberg, Philip Carey and Gypsy Rose Lee. The story originated as a 1949 novel of the same name by Fredric Brown. Plot In Southern California, while Virginia Wilson is taking an outside beach shower, an escaped madman from a sanitarium arrives. He stabs her dog, attacks her and is shot to death by her stepbrother, Charlie, with a rifle. After the attack, Virginia is committed to a sanitarium. The psychiatrist falls in love with her. He fakes her death, and they go on the lam. Virginia ends up dancing at El Madhouse night club run by Gypsy Rose Lee. Lee performs "Put the Blame on Mame," the classic ''noir'' theme from the 1946 film ''Gilda''. All the while, Virginia is being stalked by a serial killer. Cast * Anita Ekberg as Virginia Wilson / Yolanda Lange * Philip Carey as Bill Sweeney * Gypsy Rose Lee as Joann 'Gypsy' Mapes * Harry Townes as Dr. Greenwood / Bill Green * Linda Cherney a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Señoritas From Chicago
''Two Señoritas from Chicago'' is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by Frank Woodruff and starring Joan Davis, Jinx Falkenburg and Ann Savage.Stephens p.24 The film's sets were designed by the art director Lionel Banks. Cast * Joan Davis as Daisy Baker * Jinx Falkenburg as Gloria * Ann Savage as Maria * Leslie Brooks as Lena Worth * Ramsay Ames as Louise Hotchkiss * Bob Haymes as Jeff Kenyon * Emory Parnell as Rupert Shannon * Douglas Leavitt as Sam Grohman * Muni Seroff as Gilberto Garcia * Max Willenz as Armando Silva * Stanley Brown as Mike * Frank Sully as Bruiser * Charles C. Wilson (actor), Charles C. Wilson as Chester T. Allgood * Romaine Callender as Miffins References Bibliography * Michael L. Stephens. ''Art Directors in Cinema: A Worldwide Biographical Dictionary''. McFarland, 1998. External links * 1943 films 1943 musical comedy films American musical comedy films Films directed by Frank Woodruff Columbia Pictures films American blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dizzy Detectives
''Dizzy Detectives'' is a 1943 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 68th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959. Plot After an attempt at installing a door with mishaps galore, the boys are recruited by the police commissioner (Bud Jamison) as police officers. The head of the citizen's league, Mr. Dill ( John Tyrrell), warns the police commissioner that he must capture the "Ape Man", a thief wearing a gorilla suit, that is terrorizing the city, or he will have his job. The boys get a tip that the Ape Man is burglarizing a particular store and head out to catch him. They patrol the antique store, with Curly pausing for a while in a rocking chair aside a cat whose tail happens to swing simultaneously with the rocker. The tail gets caught eventually, causing the cat to screech an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Smart Saps
''Three Smart Saps'' is a 1942 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 64th 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 must get their future father-in-law ( John Tyrrell) out of jail. Apparently, the father is a prison warden who has been overthrown and put behind bars by the local mafia. The Stooges manage to sneak into the prison, find the father-in-law to be, and start snapping as many incriminating photos of the mafia's party as possible. As a result, the real crooks are served justice, Williams is readmitted as warden and the Stooges marry their sweethearts. Production notes ''Three Smart Saps'' was filmed on April 7–10, 1942. This is the seventh of sixteen Stooge shorts with the word "three" in the title. The film's title is a play on the 1936 musical co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What's The Matador?
''What's the Matador?'' is a 1942 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 62nd 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 vaudeville entertainers who trek to Mexico to perform their gag bullfight shtick, with Curly as the brave matador, and Moe and Larry dressed in a bull costume. Along the way, they cross paths with attractive senorita Dolores Sanchez (Suzanne Kaaren). They also cross paths with her evil jealous, and hot-tempered, man-hating husband named José ( Harry Burns) who threatens to kill Curly if he ever flirters his wife again with which any weapon he would use. The next day at the bullfighting arena and during the comedy bullfight, José does recognize Curly and his friends (That Moe and Larry didn't do anything to his wife). And in an act of reven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She's Oil Mine
''She's Oil Mine'' is the last short subject American comedian Buster Keaton made for Columbia Pictures. Keaton made a total of 10 films for the studio between 1939 and 1941. Plot Keaton and Monte Collins appear as Waters and Piper, plumbers. During a busy day in their shop, an heiress (Elsie Ames) flees from a persistent suitor (Eddie Laughton). The jealous suitor challenges Keaton to a duel. Background The film is a reworking of Keaton's 1932 feature ''The Passionate Plumber''. The duel was also reworked in Keaton's 1947 French short ''Un Duel A Mort''. After making 10 shorts for Columbia, Keaton chose not to renew his contract and opted for supporting roles in feature films. Columbia continued to offer the Keaton comedies to theaters well into the 1960s. External links *She's Oil Mineat the International Buster Keaton Society The International Buster Keaton Society Inc.— a.k.a. "The Damfinos"—is the official educational organization dedicated to comedy film producer-dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Sweet Pie And Pie
''In the Sweet Pie and Pie'' is a 1941 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 58th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959. Plot Tiska (Dorothy Appleby), Taska (Mary Ainslee) and Baska (Ethelreda Leopold) Jones, three snippy society girls, are willed a huge inheritance so long as they are married by a certain time and date, but their fiances postpone their engagements as they, along with the Fleet, are bound for Honolulu. Their shrewd lawyer Diggins (Richard Fiske) suggests they marry three death row inmates, the Mushroom Murder Gang (the Stooges) to retain the dough; once they are married, they get their inheritance, the convicts are hanged, and the girls can marry their fiances free and clear. The girls soon show up to the Stooges' cell and marry the three inmates, then the girl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sea Bat
''The Sea Bat'' is a 1930 American pre-Code melodrama thriller film directed by Lionel Barrymore and Wesley Ruggles, starring Raquel Torres, Charles Bickford and featuring Boris Karloff. Part of the film was filmed on location in Mazatlán, Mexico. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Lon Chaney, but he was too ill from throat cancer to undertake the project and died on August 26, 1930. The film concerns a community of sponge divers who are harassed by a large and hostile manta ray. Cast * Raquel Torres as Nina * Charles Bickford as Reverend Sims * Nils Asther as Carl * George F. Marion as Antone * John Miljan as Juan * Boris Karloff as Corsican * Gibson Gowland as Limey * Edmund Breese as Maddocks * Mathilde Comont as Mimba * Mack Swain as Dutchy * James Dime as the sailor See also * * * List of monster movies This is a list of monster movies, about such creatures as extraterrestrial aliens, giant animals, Kaiju (the Japanese counterpart of giant animals, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escape In The Fog
''Escape in the Fog'' is a 1945 American film noir crime film directed by Budd Boetticher (as Oscar Boetticher Jr.) and starring Otto Kruger, Nina Foch and William Wright (actor), William Wright. Boetticher called it a "nothing" picture, though he enjoyed working with Nina Foch and Otto Kruger.Budd Boetticher: The Last Interview Wheeler, Winston Dixon. Film Criticism; Meadville Vol. 26, Iss. 3, (Spring 2002): 52-0_3. Plot During World War II, a San Francisco nurse dreams of a murder and then meets the "victim" in real life. What she saw in the dream helps her in an effort to thwart enemy spies. Cast * Otto Kruger as Paul Devon * Nina Foch as Eileen Carr * William Wright (actor), William Wright as Barry Malcolm * Konstantin Shayne as Schiller * Ivan Triesault as Hausmer, Schiller's henchman * Ernie Adams (actor), Ernie Adams as George Smith * Heinie Conklin as Witness (uncredited) * Frank Mayo (actor), Frank Mayo as Bartender (uncredited) Reception Film critic Jeremy Arnold ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
