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Judith Allen
Judith Allen (born Marie Elliott, February 8, 1911 – October 5, 1996) was an American actress. Early years Allen was born Marie Elliot in New York City, and she grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts. She attended Leland Powers School in Boston and gained acting experience with a stock theater company. Using the name Mari Colman, Allen worked as a commercial model in New York for the Walter Thornton Modeling Agency. That was where she was selected for a leading role in the film ''This Day and Age'' (1933). The role led to her name change to Judith Allen. Robert S. Birchard wrote about the process in his book, ''Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood'', comparing it to "a comic sequence in David O. Selznick's 1937 production of ''A Star Is Born''." Birchard related: "Mari Colman was subjected to the same treatment as DeMille and Paramount tested long lists of potential screen names.... Somehow, the name ultimately bestowed upon her was Judith Allen." Personal life Allen married wre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Port Of Missing Girls (1938 Film)
''The Port of Missing Girls'' is a 1938 American film directed by Karl Brown and starring Harry Carey. Cast *Harry Carey as Captain Josiah Storm *Judith Allen as Della Mason *Milburn Stone as Jim Benton *Betty Compson as Chicago *Matty Fain Matty may refer to: * Matty (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the nickname, given name or surname * Matty, Hungary, a village in Baranya County * Matty Island, a Canadian arctic island * Former name of Wuvulu Island * Matty, n ... as Duke Ransom *George Cleveland as Clinton *Jane Jones (actress), Jane Jones as Minnie *Willy Castello as Manuel Soundtrack *Judith Allen - "Dream Cargo" (Written by Eddie Cherkose and Charles Rosoff) *Judith Allen - "One, Night, One Kiss and You" (Written by Eddie Cherkose and Charles Rosoff) *Jane Jones - "I Changed My Routine" (Written by Eddie Cherkose and Charles Rosoff) External links * * 1938 films 1930s romance films American black-and-white films Monogram Pictures fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Day And Age (film)
''This Day and Age'' is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Charles Bickford and Richard Cromwell. It is one of his rarest films and has been released on home video through the Universal Pictures Vault Series DVD collection. Plot During Boys' Week at racially integrated North High School, students Steve Smith, Gus Ruffo and Billy Anderson are elected to temporarily hold the city offices of district attorney, judge and chief of police. After Jewish tailor Herman refuses to pay protection money to Louis Garrett, Garrett's gang bombs his store. Herman and the student who was with him survive the blast, but Herman is later murdered by Garrett after he again refuses to pay. Garrett is acquitted of murder charges because he has a perfect alibi. Steve, who had taken the stand during the trial, is humiliated by his experience as a witness because he failed to prove Garrett's guilt. Billy, Gus and Sam Weber decide to investigate for themselves and disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Old Fashioned Way (film)
''The Old Fashioned Way'' is a 1934 American comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by William Beaudine and stars W. C. Fields. The script was written by Jack Cunningham based on a story by "Charles Bogle" (one of Fields's writing pseudonyms). Plot In 1897, a blustery actor-manager, "The Great McGonigle" (W. C. Fields), and his traveling theater troupe is perpetually underfunded and always just a step ahead of the law and creditors. McGonigle's daughter Betty (Judith Allen) is loyal to her father, and she tries to discourage a suitor named Wally Livingston (Joe Morrison), telling him he should follow his own father's wishes and go to college instead of trying to become an actor. Along with the rest of the troupe is McGonigle's rather dim-witted assistant Marmaduke (Tammany Young). Wally's wealthy father (Oscar Apfel) arrives in the town where the troupe is scheduled to perform a Victorian melodrama, William H. Smith's popular temperance play, ''The Dru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marrying Widows
''Marrying Widows'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Judith Allen, Johnny Mack Brown and Minna Gombell.Parish & Pitts, p. 286 Synopsis After the death of her sewing machine tycoon husband, a young woman is cold-shouldered by her grasping in-laws. She heads to New York City and meets a man, falls in love and gets married. Unknown to her her new husband is after what he thinks to be her fortune, in revenge for the theft of his father's patents that made the sewing machine profits. Discovering that she is in fact penniless, they both reconcile. Cast * Judith Allen as The Widow * Johnny Mack Brown as The Husband * Minna Gombell as The Press Agent * Lucien Littlefield as The Brother-In-Law * Bert Roach as The Husband's Partner * Sarah Padden * Virginia Sale * Nat Carr * Arthur Hoyt * Otto Hoffman * Syd Saylor * Gladys Blake * George Grandee George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Witching Hour (1934 Film)
''The Witching Hour'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Sir Guy Standing, John Halliday, Judith Allen and Tom Brown. Plot While Jack Brookfield ( John Halliday) runs a gambling gathering at nighttime in his Kentucky house, his daughter Nancy ( Judith Allen) is frequently visited by and becomes engaged to young Northern architect Clay Thorne (Tom Brown). His mother (Olive Tell), an old friend of Brookfield's, arrives from Baltimore to save her son from the vice of gambling, but when Brookfield shows her her son and his daughter in the garden, she is delighted. Brookfield announces to the gentlemen that for that evening the gambling is over early, due to a feeling he has. After everybody has left, Brookfield's old friend (and customer) Lew Ellinger ( Richard Carle) proposes to play poker. But Brookfield answers he is not a gambler. Ellinger deals the cards anyway. To his astonishment, Brookfield tells him exactly what he has in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Alarm
''Night Alarm'' is a 1934 American drama film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and starring Bruce Cabot as a down on his luck reporter, Hal Ashby, who tries to make a name for himself by investigating a series of bizarre arson attacks. The film, which was a hit in movie theatres at the time, is now widely available in the public domain. Plot summary A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complications ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman's daughter. Cast * Bruce Cabot as Hal Ashby *Judith Allen as Helen Smith, posing as Mrs. Van Dusen *H.B. Warner as Henry B. Smith * Sam Hardy as Editor Stephen Caldwell *Harry Holman as Mayor Wilson *John Bleifer as Dr. Alexander Dexter *Tom Hanlon as Vincent Van Dusen * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men Of The Night (1934 Film)
''Men of the Night'' is a 1934 American drama film written and directed by Lambert Hillyer, which stars Bruce Cabot, Judith Allen, and Ward Bond. Cast list * Bruce Cabot as Detective Sergeant "Stake-Out" Kelly * Judith Allen as Mary Higgins * Ward Bond as Detective John Connors * Charles Sabin as Packey Davis * John Kelly as Chuck * Arthur Rankin as Pat Smith * Matthew Betz as Schmidt * Walter McGrail as Louie * Maidel Turner as Mrs. Webley * Charles C. Wilson as Benson * Frank Darien as Mr. Webley * Harry Holman as Fat man at pig stand * James Wang as Owner of the chop suey parlor * Al Hill as Holdup man * Louis Natheaux as Holdup man * Eddie Foster as Pedro * Frank Marlowe as Gas station attendant * Gladys Gale as Mrs. Everett * Robert Graves as Mr. Everett * Pearl Eaton as Ethel * Frank Meredith as Motorcycle officer * Jack Mack as Bill * Tom London as Dave Burns * Dick Rush as Conductor * Lucille Ball as Peggy * Frank O'Connor as Boss painter * Lee Shumway as Detective * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young And Beautiful (film)
''Young and Beautiful'' is a 1934 American romantic comedy film directed by Joseph Santley and starring William Haines and Judith Allen. The screenplay concerns a press agent who goes to great lengths to make his actress girlfriend a star, only to risk losing her in the process. Plot In Hollywood, press agent Robert Preston gets into trouble with his boss, Herman Cline, head of Superba Pictures, for neglecting his duties in order to publicize the 13 WAMPUS Baby Stars, June Dale in particular, at a banquet in their honor. However, he sweet talks Mrs. Cline and keeps his job. June shows up and faints, shaken by a failed abduction attempt. It turns out to be a publicity stunt concocted by Preston for his fiancée. Cast *William Haines as Robert Preston *Judith Allen as June Dale *Joseph Cawthorn as Herman Cline *John Miljan as Gordon Douglas *Ted Fio Rito as Himself *Al Shaw as Piano Mover (as Shaw and Lee) *Sam Lee as Piano Mover (as Shaw and Lee) * James Bush as Dick *Vince Barne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Loves Me Not (1934 Film)
''She Loves Me Not'' is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bing Crosby and Miriam Hopkins. Based on the novel ''She Loves Me Not'' by Edward Hope and the subsequent play by Howard Lindsay, the film is about a cabaret dancer who witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film has been remade twice as ''True to the Army'' (1942) and as ''How to Be Very, Very Popular'' in (1955), the latter starring Betty Grable. The film is notable for containing one of the first major performances of Bing Crosby, and it helped launch him to future stardom. This was also the last film that Miriam Hopkins made under her contract to Paramount Pictures, which began in the early 1930s upon her arrival in Hollywood. In 1935, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for "Love in Bloom", theme song of comedian Jack Benny. Cast * Bing Crosby as P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing Man (film)
''Dancing Man'' is a 1934 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Albert Ray and starring Reginald Denny, Judith Allen and Edmund Breese.Langman & Finn, p. 61 Allen was loaned out from Paramount Pictures where she was under contract. Synopsis Paul Drexel makes his living as a taxi dancer escorting wealthy woman to dance halls. He meets and falls in love with Diane Trevor, but then to her horror she discovers that he one of his previous clients was her stepmother, Tamara. When Tamara is found murdered, all suspicions seem to point towards Drexel. Cast * Reginald Denny as Paul Drexel * Judith Allen as Diane Trevor * Edmund Breese as J.C. Trevor * Natalie Moorhead as Tamara Trevor * Edwin Maxwell as Morton Randall * Douglas Cosgrove as Donovan * Robert Ellis as Cavendish * Charlotte Merriam as Celestine Castle * Huntley Gordon as Mason * Maude Truax Maude may refer to: Places *Maude, New South Wales, a village on the lower Murrumbidgee River in Australia *Maude, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hell And High Water (1933 Film)
''Hell and High Water'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt and written by Grover Jones, Agnes Brand Leahy, William Slavens McNutt and Max Miller. The film stars Richard Arlen, Judith Allen, Charley Grapewin, Gertrude Hoffman, Guy Standing, and William Frawley. The film was released on October 27, 1933, by Paramount Pictures. Cast *Richard Arlen as Capt. J.J. Jericho *Judith Allen as Sally Driggs *Charley Grapewin as Peck Wealin * Gertrude Hoffman as Mom Wealin * Guy Standing as Rear Admiral *S. Matsui as Joe Satsanuki *William Frawley as Milton J. Bunsey *Robert Knettles as Barney *Barton MacLane Barton MacLane (December 25, 1902 – January 1, 1969) was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He appeared in many classic films from the 1930s through the 1960s, including his role as General Martin Peterson on the 1960s NBC ... as Dance Hall Manager * Esther Muir as Barney's mother References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Much Harmony
''Too Much Harmony'' is a 1933 American black-and-white pre-Code musical film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Harry Green, and Judith Allen. It was released by Paramount Pictures. Plot A backstage musical about a Broadway star, Eddie Bronson, who is stranded with his plane in Ohio where he discovers a small-time variety act, Dixon and Day and their assistant Ruth who is also Ben Day's fiancée. When he returns to New York following a try-out of a new show, Bronson arranges for the irascible producer, Max Merlin, to put them in the show and the story develops around the mutual interest which grows between Eddie and Ruth. At a party Bronson sings 'The Day You Came Along' and his own fiancée, Lucille, is jealous of his attentions to Ruth. Rehearsals of the show prove to be disappointing but Eddie encourages Ruth and they sing 'Thanks'. Ben decides to give up Ruth so that she can marry Eddie but Lucille will not re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
