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Laird Doyle
Laird Doyle (1907–1936) was an American screenwriter.Brown p.76 Doyle was under contract to Warner Brothers during the mid-1930s, before his sudden death at the age of twenty-nine. One of his final films was the British comedy ''Strangers on Honeymoon''. Some of his screenplay work was used posthumously, his last credited film being in 1947. Filmography * ''Hell Below'' (1933) * '' Jimmy the Gent'' (1934) * '' The Key'' (1934) * ''British Agent'' (1934) * '' Bordertown'' (1935) * ''Front Page Woman'' (1935) * '' Special Agent'' (1935) * ''Dangerous'' (1935) * ''Strangers on Honeymoon'' (1936) * ''Hearts Divided'' (1936) * '' Cain and Mabel'' (1936) * ''The Prince and the Pauper'' (1937) * ''San Quentin'' (1937) * '' Another Dawn'' (1937) * ''Singapore Woman'' (1941) * ''Northwest Outpost ''Northwest Outpost'' (also known as ''End of the Rainbow'') is a 1947 American Musical Western film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey. The film was Eddy's la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley, Illinois
Ashley is a city in Washington County, Illinois, United States. The population was 536 at the 2010 census. The village was named after Colonel L. W. Ashley, a railroad division engineer. Geography Ashley is located at (38.328332, -89.188860). According to the 2010 census, Ashley has a total area of , of which (or 98.04%) is land and (or 1.96%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 613 people, 245 households, and 160 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 274 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.21% White, 0.16% African American, 0.82% Native American, 0.49% from other races, and 0.33% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.65% of the population. There were 245 households, out of which 34.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.2% were married couples living together, 9.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.3% were n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Agent (1935 Film)
''Special Agent'' is a 1935 American drama film directed by William Keighley and starring Bette Davis and George Brent. The screenplay by Laird Doyle and Abem Finkel is based on a story by Martin Mooney. The film was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and released by Warner Bros. Plot The federal government seeks to imprison gangsters due to their financial crimes, tax evasion and violations of Internal Revenue Service regulations. Newspaper reporter Bill Bradford is deputized as a treasury agent by the Internal Revenue Bureau and assigned to find enough evidence to charge gangster Alexander Carston (who has the same initials as Al Capone) with tax evasion. He learns that Carston's ledgers are kept in a code known only to his secretary, Julie Gardner. When she witnesses the murder of a man who double-crossed her boss, Bill begs her to quit her job, but Julie realizes she knows too much for Carston to let her go. District Attorney Roger Quinn pressures the murdered man's part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1907 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwest Outpost
''Northwest Outpost'' (also known as ''End of the Rainbow'') is a 1947 American musical film, Musical Western (genre), Western film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey. The film was Eddy's last, and is an operetta film like his previous starring roles. He was persuaded to make it by Republic Pictures because Rudolf Friml was writing the film score, score. It was well received by critics and had a strong box office performance.Lulay p.157 Plot The film is set at the Russian Empire, Russian imperial post at Fort Ross in California in the early Nineteenth Century. A visiting American army officer becomes romantically involved with an aristocratic woman whose criminal husband is being held as a prisoner at the Fort. Cast * Nelson Eddy as Captain Jim Laurence * Ilona Massey as Natalia Alanova * Joseph Schildkraut as Count Igor Savin * Elsa Lanchester as Princess 'Tanya' Tatiana * Hugo Haas as Prince Nickolai Balinin * Lenore Ulric as Baroness Kruposny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore Woman
''Singapore Woman'' is a 1941 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Brenda Marshall and David Bruce. The Warner Bros. B picture is a remake of ''Dangerous'' (1935) using leftover sets from '' The Letter'' (1940). The story was based on Laird Doyle's short ''Hard Luck Dame''. Plot Cast *Brenda Marshall as Vicki Moore * David Bruce as David Ritchie *Virginia Field as Claire Weston *Jerome Cowan as Jim North *Rose Hobart as Alice North *Connie Leon Connie Leon (1881 in Cheshire, England – 10 May 1955 in Los Angeles, California) was an English singer, dancer and film actress. Career Between 1896 and 1909, Connie Leon was popular in provincial theatre as a singer, dancer and comedian, includi ... as Suwa References External links * {{Jean Negulesco 1941 films Films directed by Jean Negulesco Films scored by Adolph Deutsch Warner Bros. films American black-and-white films American romantic drama films 1941 romantic drama films Remakes of American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Another Dawn (1937 Film)
''Another Dawn'' (also known as ''Caesar's Wife'') is a 1937 American film melodrama directed by William Dieterle and starring Errol Flynn and Kay Francis. It is based on Somerset Maugham's 1919 play '' Caesar's Wife''. The film received dismissive reviews. Plot Colonel John Wister ( Ian Hunter) is in charge of a post in the British desert colony of Dickit. While on leave in England he meets and falls in love with the beautiful American Julia Ashton (Kay Francis), whose aviator fiancé disappeared in his plane and presumably died. Although Julia does not love John, she likes him and agrees to his marriage proposal. John takes Julia to Dickit, where she meets John's best friend, Captain Denny Roark (Errol Flynn), and Denny's sister, Grace (Frieda Inescort), who is secretly in love with John. Denny reminds Julia of her dead fiancé and the two of them fall in love. John discovers this; although he would give her a divorce, he knows that she is too decent to leave him. A subplot inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Quentin (1937 Film)
''San Quentin'' is a 1937 Warner Bros. drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, and Ann Sheridan. It was shot on location at San Quentin State Prison. Plot Ex-Army officer Steve Jameson ( Pat O' Brien), the chief guard at San Quentin State Prison, meets May Kennedy (Ann Sheridan), who works as a singer in a San Francisco night club. Joe "Red" Kennedy (Humphrey Bogart), her brother, who is on the run from the police, is arrested at the nightclub when he comes to see his sister. Red arrives in San Quentin a few days later with another new inmate, hardened criminal "Sailor Boy" Hansen (Joe Sawyer). After a fight with Sailor in the courtyard on his first day, Jameson punishes him. May begins a romantic relationship with Jameson, and soon finds out what he couldn't tell her before: He is the yard captain of the prison, who is in charge of the prisoners. Jameson institutes a merit system intended to separate the hapless lawbreakers from the hard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prince And The Pauper (1937 Film)
''The Prince and the Pauper'' is a 1937 film adaptation of the 1881 novel of the same name by Mark Twain. It starred Errol Flynn, twins Billy and Bobby Mauch in the title roles, and Claude Rains and has been described as "a kids' fantasy." The film was originally intended to coincide with the planned coronation of Edward VIII in 1936. However, its release was delayed until the following year.Tony Thomas, Rudy Behlmer * Clifford McCarty, ''The Films of Errol Flynn'', Citadel Press, 1969 p 54-55 The film was released on May 8, 1937, four days before the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The second theme of the final movement of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's violin concerto was drawn from the music he composed for this film. Plot In Tudor England, two boys are born on the same day in the most different circumstances imaginable. Tom Canty ( Billy Mauch) is the son of vicious criminal John Canty (Barton MacLane), while Edward Tudor ( Bobby Mauch) is the Prince of Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cain And Mabel
''Cain and Mabel'' is a 1936 romantic comedy film designed as a vehicle for Marion Davies in which she co-stars with Clark Gable. The story had been filmed before, in 1924, by William Randolph Hearst's production company, Cosmopolitan, as a silent called ''The Great White Way'', starring Anita Stewart and Oscar Shaw. In this version, Robert Paige introduced the song "I'll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs", with music by Harry Warren and words by Al Dubin, who also wrote "Coney Island", "Here Comes Chiquita", and other songs. Plot Waitress-turned-Broadway star Mabel O'Dare (Marion Davies) and garage-mechanic-turned-prize fighter Larry Cain (Clark Gable) dislike each other intensely, but press agent Aloysius K. Reilly (Roscoe Karns) cooks up a phony romance between them for publicity. Inevitably, the two fall in love for real, and plan on getting married, with Mabel quitting show business to be a housewife and Cain quitting the fight racket to run garages in New Jersey. When their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hearts Divided
''Hearts Divided'' is a 1936 American musical film about the real-life marriage between American Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, Elizabeth 'Betsy' Patterson and Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I of France, Napoleon. It stars Marion Davies and Dick Powell as the couple. The film was a remake of the 1928 ''Glorious Betsy'', which was in turn based on the play ''Glorious Betsy'' by Rida Johnson Young. In real life, they were married in Baltimore, before sailing for Europe. Napoleon annulled the marriage, in spite of the existence of a child, and forced Jerome to marry the Princess Catharina, making him king of Westphalia. “Luckily, Hollywood treats the lovers Betsy and Jerome with a little more compassion. The couple is even granted a second chance at happiness by Claude Rains' Napoleon.” Plot summary In 1803, Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte wants to sell a huge swathe of land (which would become the Louisiana Territory) to the United States for $20 million. He gives his youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous (1935 Film)
''Dangerous'' is a 1935 American drama film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Bette Davis in her first Oscar-winning role. The screenplay by Laird Doyle is based on his story ''Hard Luck Dame''. Plot Don Bellows, a prominent architect, is engaged to the beautiful and wealthy Gail Armitage when he meets down-and-out Joyce Heath, who was once the most promising young actress on Broadway. Don feels deeply indebted to Joyce because her performance as Juliet inspired him to become an architect. While rehabilitating her, Don falls in love with the tempestuous actress. Joyce, convinced she destroys anything and anyone she touches, warns him she is a jinx. Compelled to save her, Don breaks his engagement to Gail and risks his fortune to back the actress in a Broadway show. Before opening night, he insists they marry, but Joyce resists his proposal, hiding the fact she is married to Gordon Heath, an ineffectual but devoted man who was financially ruined by their marriage. Joyce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Front Page Woman
''Front Page Woman'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay by Laird Doyle, Lillie Hayward and Roy Chanslor based on the novel ''Women Are Bum Newspapermen'' by Richard Macauley. Plot Ellen Garfield refuses to marry fellow reporter Curt Devlin until he admits she is as good at her craft as any man. The two work for rival newspapers, and their ongoing efforts to better each other eventually leads to Ellen getting fired when Curt tricks her into misreporting the verdict of a murder trial. The tables are turned when she scoops him by getting the real perpetrator, Inez Cordoza, to confess to the crime. Forced to admit Ellen is a good reporter, he finally wins her hand. Cast * Bette Davis as Ellen Garfield * George Brent as Curt Devlin * Roscoe Karns as Toots O'Grady * Wini Shaw as Inez Cordoza * Walter Walker as Judge Hugo Rickard * J. Carrol Naish as Robert Cardoza * June Martel as Olive Wilson * J. Farrell MacDonald as Hallohan * Dor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
