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Lisa Davis (actress)
Lisa Davis (born 20 April 1936) is an English-American former actress, who appeared in her first role at the age of 13 in the film ''The Man from Yesterday'' (1949). Her elder sister was big band singer Beryl Davis. Biography Born in into a show business family, her father is Harry Davis, the leader of the Oscar Rabin Orchestra, and her older sister is feature singer Beryl Davis. Lisa appeared in a total of 26 film and television projects from 1949 to 1962, appearing in guest spots in such shows as ''The George Burns Show'', ''The Jack Benny Program'', ''Perry Mason'', ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', and ''77 Sunset Strip'', among others. She provided the voice of Anita Radcliffe in ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'' (1961). She was briefly on contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Davis was one of several actresses considered for the role of Princess Aouda in ''Around the World in 80 Days'' (1956) after Shirley MacLaine rejected it twice. Although Davis was scheduled to test for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman In The Hall
''The Woman in the Hall'' is a 1947 British drama film directed by Jack Lee and starring Ursula Jeans, Jean Simmons, Cecil Parker. The screenplay was written by Jack Lee, Ian Dalrymple and Gladys Bronwyn Stern, from Stern's 1939 novel of the same title. It was made by Wessex Film Productions at Pinewood Studios, with sets designed by Peter Proud. It was the film debut of actress Susan Hampshire, as a young child. Plot Lorna Blake (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money, visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard ( Cecil Parker) proposes marriage to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay ( Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, Lorna refuses to help her. Cast *Ursula Jeans as Lorna Blake * Jean Simmons as Jay * Cecil Parker as Sir Halmar *Edwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Births
Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII. * January 28 – Britain's King George V state funeral takes place in London and Windsor. He is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle * February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. * February 6 – The 1936 Winter Olympics, IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. * February 10–February 19, 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. * February 16 – 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front (Spain), Popular Front coalition takes a majority. * February 26 – February 26 Inci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star! (film)
''Star!'' (re-titled ''Those Were the Happy Times'' for its 1969 re-release) is a 1968 American biographical musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by William Fairchild is based on the life and career of British performer Gertrude Lawrence. Plot The film opens in 1940, with Lawrence in a screening room watching a documentary film chronicling her life, then flashes back to Clapham in 1915, when she leaves home to join her vaudevillian father in a dilapidated Brixton music hall. Eventually she joins the chorus in André Charlot's West End revue. She reunites with close childhood friend Noël Coward, who provides witty commentary on Gertie's actions. Charlot becomes annoyed with Gertie's efforts to stand out, literally, from the chorus. He threatens to fire her, but stage manager Jack Roper intercedes and gets her hired as a general understudy to the leads. She marries Jack, but it becomes clear she is more inclined to perform onstage than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Give Up The Ship (film)
''Don't Give Up the Ship'' is a 1959 American black-and-white U.S. Navy comedy film from Paramount Pictures, produced by Hal B. Wallis, directed by Norman Taurog, that stars Jerry Lewis and co-stars Dina Merrill, Diana Spencer, Claude Akins, Robert Middleton, Gale Gordon, and Mickey Shaughnessy. The film was shot from October 21, 1958 to January 30, 1959 and was released June 16, 1959. The film was based on the ''Alcoa Theatre'' episode ''Souvenir'' aired on Dec 2, 1957 starring Jack Lemmon that was written by Ellis Arnold Kadison. Kadison's idea was based on Edward Anhalt then serving with the Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California signing for a captured German Messerschmidt that was to be used as a prop in a training film. When the aircraft disappeared, Anhalt was issued with a bill from the US Government for $175,000 until a search revealed that the aircraft was discovered as a mockup on the MGM backlot. Plot Following World War II, an entire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Of Outer Space
''Queen of Outer Space'' is a 1958 American science fiction feature film shot in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope. Produced by Ben Schwalb and directed by Edward Bernds, it stars Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, and Laurie Mitchell. The screenplay by Charles Beaumont, about a revolt against a cruel Venusian queen, is based on an idea supplied by Ben Hecht and originally titled ''Queen of the Universe''. Upon its release, the film was promoted by Allied Artists and distributed to some locations as a double feature with ''Frankenstein 1970'' starring Boris Karloff Plot In the year 1985, Captain Patterson (Eric Fleming) and his spaceship crew (Dave Willock, Patrick Waltz, and Paul Birch) take their rocketship to an Earth space station. En route, the space station is destroyed by an interstellar energy beam, which also damages their rocketship. The crewman crash land on Venus and are quickly captured. They learn the planet is under the dictatorship of the cruel Queen Yllana (Laurie Mitchel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dalton Girls
''The Dalton Girls'' is a 1957 American Western film directed by Reginald Le Borg and starring Merry Anders, Lisa Davis, Penny Edwards, Sue George and John Russell. Plot Two men on horseback are fleeing a posse. Pistol shots are exchanged and the two men are killed. The scene shifts to town where the undertaker, Slidell, has posted a fee of twenty-five cents to view the remains of the Dalton brothers. A private agency detective, Parsh, approaches Slidell wanting to identify the bodies. Slidell insists on the fee. As Parsh views the bodies, Slidell taunts the detective that he had been unable to apprehend the Dalton brothers though pursuing them for years. Two young women arrive. Parsh greets them as Holly and Rose; he expresses his condolences, but he is rebuked by Holly. Holly pushes past both men to view the bodies and Parsh leaves. Slidell follows Holly and takes the opportunity to physically accost her. Holly resists, killing Slidell in the struggle. Holly and Rose fle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby Face Nelson (film)
''Baby Face Nelson'' is a 1957 film noir crime film based on the real-life 1930s gangster, directed by Don Siegel, co-written by Daniel Mainwaring—who also wrote the screenplay for Siegel's 1956 sci-fi thriller ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers''—and starring Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Leo Gordon as Dillinger, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam, John Hoyt and Elisha Cook Jr. Plot Chicago mob boss Rocca manages to get Lester Gillis sprung from jail in Joliet. His motive is to have Gillis kill a labor organizer, but Gillis refuses, preferring to work with Rocca's gang on robberies instead. He meets mob moll Sue Nelson and they start a relationship. He is relaxing, alone in his hotel room, when cops burst in, finding a gun Rocca has planted to frame Gillis for the labor leader's murder. Gillis vows revenge, escapes from the cops with Sue's help, then guns down Rocca and two henchmen. He adopts Sue's surname as an alias. In a holdup at a pharmacy, Gillis is winged by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Things In Life Are Free (film)
''The Best Things in Life Are Free'' is a 1956 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz. The film stars Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey and Ernest Borgnine as the real-life songwriting team of Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson of the late 1920s and early 1930s; and Sheree North as Kitty Kane, a singer (possibly based on Helen Kane). In 1957, the year after the film was released, it received an Oscar nomination for Lionel Newman in the category of Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. Plot Cast *Gordon MacRae as Buddy DeSylva *Dan Dailey as Ray Henderson *Ernest Borgnine as Lew Brown *Sheree North as Kitty Kane *Tommy Noonan as Carl Frisbee *Murvyn Vye as Manny Costain *Phyllis Avery as Maggie Henderson *Larry Keating as Winfield Sheehan *Tony Galento as Fingers * Norman Brooks as Al Jolson * Jacques d'Amboise as Specialty dancer *Roxanne Arlen as Perky Nichols *Byron Palmer as Hollywood star * Gordon Richards as Butler Reception Critical response Premiering in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fury At Gunsight Pass
''Fury at Gunsight Pass'' is a 1956 American western film directed by Fred F. Sears and starring David Brian, Neville Brand and Richard Long. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Plot Bank robbers hold townspeople hostage, threatening to kill one of them every thirty minutes until $35,000 from an earlier robbery, hidden by a deceased accomplice, is found. Cast * David Brian as Whitney Turner * Neville Brand as Dirk Hogan * Richard Long as Roy Hanford * Lisa Davis as Kathy Phillips * Katharine Warren as Mrs. Boggs * Percy Helton as Peter Boggs * Morris Ankrum as Doc Phillips * Addison Richards as Charles Hanford * Joe Forte as Andrew Ferguson * Wally Vernon as Okay, Okay * Paul E. Burns as Squint * Frank Fenton as Sheriff Meeker * George Keymas George Keymas (November 18, 1925 – January 17, 2008) was an American film actor, film and television actor.Martin p.68 Keymas graduated from Springfield (Ohio) High School. Keymas began his Hollywood career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glory (1956 Film)
''Glory'' is a 1956 American musical film directed by David Butler and starring Margaret O'Brien, Walter Brennan and Charlotte Greenwood. Plot Agnes Tilbee and granddaughter Clarabell are excited about their Fairwood Farm's new foal, which they name Glory, although because it's a filly, her chances of becoming a championship racehorse aren't great. The farm has financial difficulties. Clarabell is attracted to wealthy Chad Chadburn, who allows Glory to board and train at his stable. Chad is said to be engaged to Candy Trent, a rich snob whose fast car sometimes spooks the horses. Agnes can barely afford her feed bill, which is why in spite of having parted ways, her former trainer Ned Otis pays the $50 she owes. Clarabell is heartsick when Agnes says the horse will need to be put up for auction. She enters Glory in races, but the filly isn't ready yet and always loses. Glory also goes lame, requiring care and a long rest. A singer, Hoppy Hollis, takes an interest in Clarabell, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
