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Kathleen Lockhart
Kathleen Lockhart (née Arthur; 9 August 1894 – 18 February 1978) was a prolific English-American actress during the early-mid 20th century. Early life Kathleen Arthur was born on August 9, 1894 in Southsea, Hampshire, England. Career Lockhart's entertainment career began on the stage in Britain. Lockhart appeared on stage and in Hollywood films for almost forty years. Lockhart has more than 30 film credits. Lockhart and her husband, Gene, occasionally starred opposite each other, most notably as Mr. and Mrs. Bob Cratchit in ''A Christmas Carol'' (1938). Lockhart's daughter, June also appeared with them in that film, portraying their daughter. After 1957, Lockhart retired from acting and made no more film appearances, except for a small role in ''The Purple Gang'' (1960). Lockhart has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6241 Hollywood Boulevard. Personal life In 1924, Lockhart immigrated to the United States. Lockhart's husband was Gene Lockhart (died 1957 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something To Sing About (1937 Film)
''Something to Sing About'', (1937), re-released in 1947 as ''Battling Hoofer'',TCNotes/ref> is the second and final film James Cagney made for Grand National Pictures – the first being ''Great Guy'' – before mending relations with and returning to Warner Bros. It is one of the few films besides ''Footlight Parade'' and ''Yankee Doodle Dandy'' to showcase Cagney's singing and dancing talents. It was directed by Victor Schertzinger, who also wrote the music and lyrics of the original songs, as well as the story that Austin Parker's screenplay is based on. Cagney's co-stars are Evelyn Daw and William Frawley, and the film features performances by Gene Lockhart and Mona Barrie. The film, which is a satire on the movie industry's foibles, flopped in theaters, causing the just recently started "Poverty Row" independent Grand National,Landazuri, Margarit"Something to Sing About" (TCM article)/ref> which had gone significantly overbudget making the film, to close its doors in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil Is A Sissy
''The Devil is a Sissy'' is a 1936 American MGM comedy-drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and Rowland Brown. The film stars Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper and Mickey Rooney, three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s. The film premiered on September 18, 1936. Plot Claude Pierce is an aristocratic and well-bred boy from England, whose parents have received a divorce. According to a child custody agreement signed by his parents, Claude will spend six months living with his father. Jay Pierce, the father in question, has settled in New York City, where he works as an architect. Claude starts attending a public school in New York City. Claude's "polished" manners make him stand out among his schoolmates, and the other kids start playing pranks on him. He soon gets on the bad side of two lower-class kids, Robert "Buck" Murphy and James "Gig" Stevens. Gig is in a dark mood at the time, because his father is about to be executed for murder. Finding himself the target of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mission To Moscow
''Mission to Moscow'' is a 1943 film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the 1941 book by the former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph E. Davies. The movie chronicles the experiences of the second American ambassador to the Soviet Union and was made in response to a request by Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was made during World War II, when the Americans and Soviets were allies, and takes an extremely solicitous view of not only the USSR in general but of Stalinism and Stalinist repressions in particular. For that reason, it was scrutinized by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Source book The film is based on Joseph E. Davies' memoir about his time as the United States ambassador to the Soviet Union from November 1936 to June 1938. It was published by Simon & Schuster in 1941 and was a critical and commercial success—700,000 copies were sold, and the book was translated into thirteen languages.Koppes, Clayton R. and Black, Gregory D. (1987) ''Hollywood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Are Husbands Necessary? (1942 Film)
''Are Husbands Necessary?'' is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Ray Milland and Betty Field. It follows the misadventures of a wacky wife and her sometimes exasperated, but loving, banker husband. The film's screenplay was adapted by the husband-and-wife writing team of Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis, from the novel ''Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage'' by Isabel Scott Rorick. This novel would later be a source for the related 1948 radio series ''My Favorite Husband'' starring Lucille Ball, which itself would evolve into the television series ''I Love Lucy''. A one-hour ''Lux Radio Theatre'' adaptation of the film, featuring George Burns and Gracie Allen, aired February 15, 1943, on CBS Radio. Cast *Ray Milland as George Cugat *Betty Field as Mary Elizabeth Cugat *Patricia Morison as Myra Ponsonby *Eugene Pallette as Bunker * Philip Terry as Cory Cartwright *Richard Haydn as Chuck *Charles Dingle as Duncan Atterbury *Kathleen L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Crazy (1941 Film)
''Love Crazy'' is a 1941 American Jack Conway screwball comedy film directed by pairing William Powell and Myrna Loy as a couple whose marriage is on the verge of being broken up by the husband's old girlfriend and the wife's disapproving mother. This was their eleventh of fourteen films appearing together. The supporting cast include Gail Patrick, Jack Carson and Sig Ruman. Plot Architect Steve Ireland (William Powell) and his wife Susan (Myrna Loy) eagerly look forward to their fourth wedding anniversary, but her mother Mrs. Cooper (Florence Bates) shows up and puts a damper on their eccentric and jokey plans for the evening; their personal recreation of a Baffin Island Inuit ritual, this year done backwards. She sends Steve downstairs to mail her insurance premium having sprained her foot. Downstairs he runs into his old girlfriend Isobel Kimble Grayson (Gail Patrick) and learns that she has just moved into the apartment building, one floor below. On the way up, the elevato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Leading Citizen (1939 Film)
''Our Leading Citizen'' is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Alfred Santell and written by Jack Moffitt. The film stars Bob Burns (comedian), Bob Burns, Susan Hayward, Joseph Allen, Elizabeth Patterson (actress), Elizabeth Patterson, Gene Lockhart and Charles Bickford. The film was released on August 23, 1939, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Cast *Bob Burns (comedian), Bob Burns as Lem Schofield *Susan Hayward as Judith Schofield *Joseph Allen as Clay Clinton *Elizabeth Patterson (actress), Elizabeth Patterson as Aunt Tillie *Gene Lockhart as J.T. Tapley *Charles Bickford as Shep Muir *Otto Hoffman as Mr. Stoney *Clarence Kolb as Jim Hanna *Paul Guilfoyle (actor, born 1902), Paul Guilfoyle as Jerry Peters *Fay Helm as Tonia *Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Barker *Hattie Noel as Druscilla *Kathryn Sheldon as Miss Swan *Monte Blue as Frank *Jim Kelso as Chief of Police *Harry C. Bradley as Director *Frances Morris (actor), Frances Morris as Maid *Thomas Louden as Frederick the Butl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outside These Walls
''Outside These Walls'' is a 1939 American crime film directed by Ray McCarey and starring Michael Whalen, Dolores Costello and Virginia Weidler. Plot Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex- con and opposition from the incumbent administration. Cast * Michael Whalen as Dan Sparling * Dolores Costello as Margaret Bronson * Virginia Weidler as Ellen Sparling * Don Beddoe as Dinky * Selmer Jackson as John Wilson * Mary Forbes as Gertrude Bishop * Robert Emmett Keane as Sam Fulton * Pierre Watkin as Hewitt Bronson * Kathleen Lockhart as Miss Thronton * Dick Curtis as Flint See also * List of American films of 1939 A list of American films released in 1939. ''Gone with the Wind'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. # A–B C–D E–F G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Of Conquest
''Man of Conquest'' is a 1939 American Western (genre), Western film directed by George Nicholls Jr. and starring Richard Dix (actor), Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, and Joan Fontaine. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Original Score, Best Score, Academy Award for Best Sound, Best Sound (Charles L. Lootens), and Academy Award for Best Production Design, Best Art Direction (John Victor Mackay). The film marked the first serious attempt by Republic Pictures to break out from its traditional production of B movies and produce a work of greater cost and prestige. The film is a biopic of the politician Sam Houston, focusing on his relationship with Andrew Jackson and his role during the Texas Revolution. It was inspired by Marquis James's 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Houston. Plot Sam Houston fights beside his friend Andrew Jackson and is wounded. Not long thereafter, Jackson is elected President of the United States and appoints Houst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What A Life (film)
''What a Life'' is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Theodore Reed and starring Jackie Cooper, Betty Field, John Howard, Janice Logan, Vaughan Glaser, Lionel Stander, and Hedda Hopper. Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, the film was released on October 6, 1939, by Paramount Pictures. This is the first in a series of eleven Henry Aldrich films (1939-1944) based on the leading character from the radio series The Aldrich Family ''The Aldrich Family'', a popular radio teenage situation comedy (July 2, 1939 – April 19, 1953), was also presented in films, television and comic books. In the radio series' opening exchange, awkward teen Henry's mother called, "Hen-''reeeee ... Plot Henry (Jackie Cooper) is falsely accused of making trouble at school. He must clear himself. Cast References External links * * 1939 films 1939 comedy-drama films The Aldrich Family films American black-and-white films American comedy-drama films American films based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweethearts (1938 Film)
''Sweethearts'' is a 1938 American Technicolor musical romance film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The screenplay, by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, uses the “play within a play” device: a Broadway production of the 1913 Victor Herbert operetta is the setting for another pair of sweethearts, the stars of the show. It was the first color film for Nelson or Jeanette (as well as MGM's first three strip Technicolor feature). It was their first film together without uniforms or period costumes. Plot Broadway stars Gwen Marlowe (Jeanette MacDonald) and Ernest Lane (Nelson Eddy) are appearing in a 6-year run of Victor Herbert's operetta '' Sweethearts'' ( Ray Bolger dances the role of ''Hans''). They are also very much in love after six years of marriage. Norman Trumpett (Reginald Gardiner) is a successful Hollywood talent scout under pressure to recruit Marlowe and Lane for his studio, which their Broadway producer Felix Lehman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blondie (1938 Film)
''Blondie'' is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Frank Strayer, based on the comic strip of the same name, created by Chic Young. The screenplay was written by Richard Flournoy. The plot involves the Bumsteads' fifth anniversary, Dagwood trying to get a raise, and Blondie trying to buy new furniture. This was the first of 28 films based on the comic strip; Columbia Pictures produced them from 1938 to 1943, and popular demand brought them back in 1945. When the ''Blondie'' film series came to an end with ''Beware of Blondie'' in 1950, it was announced as being replaced with a series of ''Gasoline Alley'' movies. However, only two such films were made, ''Gasoline Alley'' (1951) and ''Corky of Gasoline Alley'' (1951). Columbia then reissued the ''Blondie'' features, beginning with the first film in the series. Columbia used the series to showcase many of its contract players. Rita Hayworth was featured in ''Blondie on a Budget''; Glenn Ford in ''Blondie Plays Cupid'', Larr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Give Me A Sailor
''Give Me a Sailor'' is a 1938 comedy film directed by Elliott Nugent, starring Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Betty Grable and Jack Whiting. This was Raye and Hope's third film together, the first in which they played the leads. Plot Jim and Walter Brewster are brothers and naval officers; both of whom are in love with Nancy Larkin, much to the chagrin of Nancy's sister Letty. Walter has the inside track with Nancy, but Jim & Letty conspire to keep them apart. There are various comic shenanigans and a "Beautiful Legs" contest that Letty enters in error, but wins and becomes an instant celebrity. Fame and fortune are showered upon her and she and Jim realize that they are meant for each other. Cast * Martha Raye as Letty Larkin * Bob Hope as Jim Brewster * Betty Grable as Nancy Larkin * Jack Whiting as Walter Brewster * Clarence Kolb as Captain Tallant * J.C. Nugent as Mr. Larkin * Bonnie Jean Churchill as Ethel May Brewster * Nana Bryant Nana Irene Bryant (November 23, 1888 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
