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Leslie Pearce (director)
Arnold Leslie Pearce (20 April 1887 – 17 August 1977) was a New Zealand film director, who directed numerous short films in Hollywood during the 1930s, including several with W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby. Selected filmography * ''The Delightful Rogue'' (1929) * '' Meet the Wife'' (1931) * ''The Dentist'' (1932) * ''Blue of the Night'' (1933) * ''The Stoker'' (1935) * ''Can You Hear Me, Mother?'' (1935) * ''You Must Get Married ''You Must Get Married'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce and starring Frances Day, Neil Hamilton and Robertson Hare. It was based on a novel of the same title by David Evans. Premise In order to be able to work in Br ...'' (1936) * '' The Road to Hollywood'' (1947) References External links * 1887 births 1977 deaths People from Christchurch New Zealand film directors New Zealand expatriates in the United States {{film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the Central Los Angeles, central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a metonymy, shorthand reference for the Cinema of the United States, U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was Merger (politics), consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, having developed first on the East Coast. Eventually it became the most recognizable in the world. History Initial development H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis (publisher), Harrison Gray Otis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, musician and actor. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. He was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1926 to 1977. He made over 70 feature films and recorded more than 1,600 songs. His early career coincided with recording innovations that allowed him to develop an intimate singing style that influenced many male singers who followed, such as Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Dick Haymes, Elvis Presley, and John Lennon. ''Yank'' magazine said that he was "the person who had done the most for the morale of overseas servicemen" during World War II. In 1948, American polls declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. In 1948, ''Music Digest'' estimated that his recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Delightful Rogue
''The Delightful Rogue'' is a 1929 pre-Code romantic adventure film produced and distributed by RKO Pictures. The film was directed by A. Leslie Pearce, with the screenplay by Wallace Smith, based on his short story, ''A Woman Decides''. The film stars Rod La Rocque as a modern-day pirate in the south seas, as well as Rita La Roy and Charles Byer. La Rocque had been playing similar style adventurers in a few of his last silent films, and this film attempts to replicate the success of those silent adventure movies using RCA's early sound equipment, the Photophone system. Plot Lastro is a modern-day pirate who hijacks a yacht and heads into the tropic port of Tapit. He is wanted for a variety of offenses, including murder and robbery. Upon his arrival, he is recognized by a local native leader, Junipero, but Junipero takes a bribe to not turn him in. While in Tapit, he sees an American dancer, Nydra, whom he is immediately attracted to. Nydra is also being pursued by Harry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meet The Wife (film)
''Meet the Wife'' is a 1931 American comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce and starring Laura La Plante, Lew Cody and Joan Marsh.Walker p.575 It is based on the 1923 Broadway play of the same title by Lynn Starling. The film's sets were designed by the art director Charles A. Cadwallader. Synopsis A woman's supposedly dead first husband turns up, much to the consternation of her second husband. Meanwhile, her younger sister attempts to carry on two romances with a newspaper reporter and a wealthy Englishman. Cast * Laura La Plante as Gertrude Lennox * Lew Cody as Philip Lord * Joan Marsh as Doris Bellamy * William Janney as Gregory Brown * Harry Myers as Harvey Lennox * Claud Allister as Victor Staunton * Aileen Carlyle as Alice * Aggie Herring as Maggie * Edgar Norton Edgar Norton (born Harry Edgar Mills; August 11, 1868 – February 6, 1953) was an English-born American character actor. Early years Norton was born in Islington in London, England, on August 11, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dentist (1932 Film)
''The Dentist'' is a 1932 United States, American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code Comedy film, comedy Short film, short starring W. C. Fields. The film is one of four shorts Fields made with the "king of comedy," Mack Sennett, at Paramount Pictures, Paramount. Although Sennett was near the end of his career, he found good use of the new medium of talking pictures for comedy, as the film demonstrates. It was directed by Leslie Pearce from a script by Fields himself. The film has been released on VHS and DVD. Plot Fields plays a hot-tempered dentist who terrorizes his patients, who verbally/physically abuses his assistants and golfing-caddies alike, and whose daughter desires to marry an ice-delivery man. Fields disapproves of this match, especially after the starry-eyed daughter attempts to elope with her lover. Fields locks his daughter in her upstairs bedroom which is located above his dental office, where she proceeds to stamp her feet, causing plaster chunks to fall as he atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Of The Night
''Blue of the Night'' is a 1933 Mack Sennett Star Comedy (No. S3628) directed by Leslie Pearce and starring Bing Crosby. It was the last of the six short films Crosby made for Mack Sennett and which helped launch his career as a solo performer. Background Six shorts were made by Crosby for Mack Sennett, of which were four filmed in a three-month period in 1931 and two in 1932. The shorts were: *I Surrender Dear (released September 1931) * One More Chance (released November 1931) * Dream House (released January 1932) *Billboard Girl (released March 1932) * Sing, Bing, Sing (released March 1933) *Blue of the Night (released January 1933) After filming the first four shorts in 1931, Crosby went to New York and enjoyed great success on the radio and through live appearances at the Paramount Theatre. He was soon signed to make a film called The Big Broadcast and he returned to Hollywood on June 12, 1932. First of all, he had to fulfil his contract with Sennett and on June 17, he star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stoker
"The Stoker" (original German language, German: "Der Heizer") is a short story by Franz Kafka. Kafka wrote it as the first chapter of a novel he called ''Amerika (novel), Amerika'', but he abandoned the novel in 1913 and published the one completed chapter alone as a pamphlet later that year. Since his death, it has usually been published along with the uncompleted fragments of ''Amerika''. Plot Sixteen-year-old Karl Rossmann arrives in New York Harbor on a slow-moving ship. He has been sent to America by his parents "because a maid had seduced him and then had his child." As he is about to go ashore, he remembers that he has left his umbrella below deck, so he asks a young man with whom he had been briefly acquainted during the voyage to watch his trunk while he runs to get it. Karl gets lost in the corridors and begins pounding on a door. A man lets him in and, since the man convinces Karl that it will be easier to find his umbrella and trunk (if they have not been stolen, tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Must Get Married
''You Must Get Married'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce and starring Frances Day, Neil Hamilton and Robertson Hare. It was based on a novel of the same title by David Evans. Premise In order to be able to work in Britain an American actress marries a British sailor. Cast * Frances Day as Fenella Dane * Neil Hamilton as Michael Brown * Robertson Hare as Percy Phut * Wally Patch as Chief Blow * Gus McNaughton as Bosun * Fred Duprez as Cyrus P. Hankin * Dennis Wyndham as Albert Gull * C. Denier Warren as Mr Wurtsell * James Carew James Usselman (February 5, 1876 – April 4, 1938), known professionally as James Carew, was an American actor who appeared in many films, mainly in Britain. He was born in Goshen, Indiana in 1876 and began work as a clerk in a publishing fir ... as Mr Schillinger References External links * 1936 films 1936 comedy films British comedy films British black-and-white films Films directed by Leslie Pearce 1930s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Road To Hollywood
''The Road to Hollywood'' is a 1947 American film released by Astor Pictures that is a combination of several of Bing Crosby's Educational Pictures short subjects. The title was designed to draft off Paramount Pictures' " Road to..." film series starring Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour; Hope and Lamour do not appear in the film. Plot Bud Pollard narrates a biography of Bing Crosby stringing together the following short subjects: * "I Surrender Dear" (1931) * " One More Chance" (1931) * "Billboard Girl" (1931) * " Dream House" (1931) Cast *Bing Crosby as Himself (archive footage) *Luis Alberni as The Marquis, from ''I Surrender Dear'' (archive footage) *Bud Pollard as Himself (Host / Narrator) * Ann Christy as Betty Brooks, from ''Dream House'' (archive footage) *Patsy O'Leary as Ethel Bangs, from '' One More Chance'' / Mrs. McCullough, from ''I Surrender Dear'' (archive footage) *George C. Pearce as Mary's Father, from ''Billboard Girl'' (archive footage) * Arthur Ston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 Births
Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. ** British emigrant ship ''Kapunda'' sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors. * January 21 ** The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed in the United States. ** Brisbane receives a one-day rainfall of (a record for any Australian capital city). * January 24 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians. * January 28 ** In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are wide and thick. ** Construction work begins on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. * February 2 – The first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. * February 4 – The Interstate Commerce Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Deaths
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 ** 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th Preside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
