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Kay Griffith
Katherine Margaret Griffith (September 10, 1915 – December 10, 2002) was an American film actress from 1936 to 1940 who appeared in Western films and serials. She made 14 films, the last being ''Covered Wagon Days'' (1940) in which she was the female lead alongside The Three Mesquiteers. Griffith was born in Chicago and grew up in San Francisco. In 1938 she was signed by 20th Century Fox. Griffith married actor Broderick Crawford on November 21, 1940, and made no further films herself. She had two children with Crawford but the marriage ended in divorce on July 8, 1957. Filmography * ''Easy to Take'' (1936) as Mary (uncredited) * ''College Holiday'' (1936) as dancer (uncredited) * ''Kentucky Moonshine'' (1938) as telephone operator (uncredited) * ''Alexander's Ragtime Band'' (1938) as autograph seeker (uncredited) * '' Always Goodbye'' (1938) as nurse (uncredited) * '' My Lucky Star'' (1938) as Ethel * ''Five of a Kind'' (1938) as airplane stewardess (uncredited) * ''Wife, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area_tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Lucky Star (1938 Film)
''My Lucky Star'' is a 1938 romantic comedy film. This was Norwegian ice-skating Olympic champion Sonja Henie's fourth film. Plot George Cabot Jr. (Cesar Romero), the son of a department store owner, enrolls the store's sports clerk Krista Nielsen (Sonja Henie) at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. George is trying to pay off cabaret singer Marcelle La Verne, who wants to annul their brief elopement. Marcelle threatens to name Krista as a co-respondent in her lawsuit. Krista has fallen for Larry Taylor at the college, where a skating exhibition lands her on the cover of ''Life'' magazine. Cast * Sonja Henie as Krista Nielsen * Richard Greene as Larry Taylor * Joan Davis as Mary Dwight * Cesar Romero as George Cabot Jr * Buddy Ebsen as Buddy * Arthur Treacher as Whipple * George Barbier as George Cabot Sr * Gypsy Rose Lee as Marcelle La Verne (as Louise Hovick) * Billy Gilbert as Nick * Patricia Wilder as Dorothy * Pau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Film Actresses
The following American film actresses are listed alphabetically. It contains both actresses born American and those who acquired American nationality later. Some actors who are well known for both film and TV work are also included in the list of American television actresses. Key to entries: : born in ''Nation'': this person was born abroad but was American by birth : ''Nationality''-born: this person acquired American citizenship later in life : a range is ''birth''–''death'' years : if year of death only is known, that is stated explicitly A * Beverly Aadland 1942–2010 *Mariann Aalda born *Caroline Aaron born *Diahnne Abbott born *Rose Abdoo born * Paula Abdul born *Donzaleigh Abernathy born *Whitney Able born *Candice Accola born *Amy Acker born *Jean Acker 1893–1978 *Bettye Ackerman 1924–2006 *Amy Adams born (born in Italy) * Brooke Adams born *Edie Adams 1927–2008 * Jane Adams born *Joey Lauren Adams born *Julie Adams 1926–2019 *Lillian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Births
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ** WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS ''Formidable'' is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. ** Battle of Broken Hill: A train ambush near Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together with 4 civilians. * January 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of , carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft. * January 12 ** The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. ** '' A Fool There Was'' premières in the United States, starring Theda Bara as a '' femme fatale''; she quickly become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Dust (film)
''Star Dust'' is a 1940 American comedy drama film directed by Walter Lang and starring Linda Darnell and John Payne, Roland Young and Charlotte Greenwood. Plot Amalgamated Pictures is seeking new stars for its motion pictures. Talent scout Thomas Brooke hits the road, looking for newcomers to bring back for screen tests, hopefully to impress the studio's boss, Dane Wharton. Brooke discovers a football player in Arizona who can sing, Bud Borden, and a talented Texas singer, Mary Andrews. On a visit to Arkansas, his presence is discovered by aspiring actress Carolyn Sayres, who schemes to get Brooke to take an interest in her. He does, at least until he finds out she's still a bit too young. Everyone travels to Hollywood for screen tests and a visit to Grauman's Chinese Theater, where they get a kick out of the footprints of movie stars embedded in the cement. Brooke encounters the casting director's own new find, June Lawrence, a singer. He clashes with the studio, which offers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free, Blonde And 21
''Free, Blonde and 21'' is a 1940 American drama film directed by Ricardo Cortez and written by Frances Hyland. The film stars Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Joan Davis, Henry Wilcoxon, Robert Lowery, Alan Baxter and Kay Aldridge. The film was released on March 29, 1940, by 20th Century Fox. Plot Jerry Daily and Carol Northrup are residents of a New York City hotel for women. Jerry fakes a suicide out of anger for her married lover spurning her. At the hospital, administrator Dr. Hugh Mayberry takes a liking to Carol, while young surgeon Dr. Steve Greig falls for Jerry. Carol and Hugh hit it off and end up marrying. Jerry, however, two-times Steve with a gangster, Mickey Ryan, who robs and murders a tavern owner and is wounded in the process. Jerry pleads with Steve to operate on Mickey, who dies anyway. After police suspicions point them toward Hugh as an accomplice, Steve confesses that he was the doctor in question. He doesn't inform on Jerry, but the cops trick her into an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swanee River (1939 Film)
''Swanee River'' is a 1939 American film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart. It is a biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biographical films of the time, the film was more fictional than it was factual. Plot The family of Stephen Foster ( Ameche) insists that he accept a seven-dollar-a-week shipping clerk job in Cincinnati, but he prefers to write songs. Stephen's prospective father-in-law Andrew McDowell has no faith in Stephen, who wants to write "music from the heart of the simple people of the South." The struggling composer is content to sell "Oh! Susanna" for fifteen dollars to minstrel singer E. P. Christy and allows Christy to take credit as its writer. Soon, the song is sweeping the country, and Stephen follows it with "De Camptown Races" and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel For Women
''Hotel for Women'' (or ''Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women'') is a 1939 American drama film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, and James Ellison. It was Darnell's screen debut. Plot When she is jilted by her boyfriend, a young woman is encouraged to become a model by the women at the hotel where she is staying. Production The film's sets were designed by the 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 ...s Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright. Partial cast References Bibliography * Davis, Ronald L. ''Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream''. University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. External links * 1939 films 1939 drama films American drama films Films directed by Gregory Ratoff 20th Century Fox films America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Could Happen To You (1939 Film) '', a 1954 film starring Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon
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It Could Happen to You may refer to: * "It Could Happen to You" (song), a 1944 popular standard by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen * '' (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You'', a 1958 album by Chet Baker containing a version of the above song * ''It Could Happen to You'' (1937 film), a drama directed by Phil Rosen * ''It Could Happen to You'' (1939 film), a mystery directed by Alfred L. Werker * ''It Could Happen to You'' (1994 film), a romantic comedy-drama starring Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda See also *''It Should Happen to You ''It Should Happen to You'' is a 1954 American romantic comedy film starring Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford and Jack Lemmon; it was Lemmon's first major film appearance. The film was directed by George Cukor, and partly filmed on location in New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wife, Husband And Friend
''Wife, Husband and Friend'' is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Loretta Young, Warner Baxter and Binnie Barnes in the three title roles, respectively. The film, based on a script by Nunnally Johnson, tells the story of a contractor and his wife, and how their musical ambitions result in marital tensions and a romantic triangle with a professional singer. The film was remade as ''Everybody Does It'' (1949), starring Paul Douglas as the contractor, Celeste Holm as his wife, and Linda Darnell as the singer. Plot The opera season has opened in New York City, and building contractor Leonard Borland (Baxter), who comes from a working-class background, is coping with the musical ambitions of his wife Doris (Young), who is from a socially prominent family. Despite his misgivings that she has no talent, she is being trained for a career in singing by the voice teacher Hugo (Cesar Romero). Doris prepares for a recital that Leonard supports, hoping that wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
