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Long Shot (1939 Film)
''Long Shot'' is a 1939 American horse racing film directed by Charles Lamont. The film is also known as ''The Long Shot''. Plot Henry Sharon is about to be ruined financially by rival stable owner Lew Ralston when he gets an idea to fake his own death. His prize horse Certified Check is bequeathed to niece Martha, a young woman Ralston had hoped to marry. Martha and friend Jeff Clayton begin to enter Certified Check in races, but he always loses. Then they get a tip that the horse hates running near the rail. Given an outside post, Certified Check has a legitimate shot to win the big stakes race at Santa Anita Park, Santa Anita, but first he must be kept out of sight to keep Ralston from sabotaging his chances. Cast *Gordon Jones (actor), Gordon Jones as Jeff Clayton *Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917), Marsha Hunt as Martha Sharon *C. Henry Gordon as Lew Ralston *George Meeker as Dell Baker *Harry Davenport (actor), Harry Davenport as Henry Sharon *George E. Stone as Danny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lamont
Charles Lamont (May 5, 1895 – September 11, 1993) was a prolific filmmaker, directing over 200 titles and producing and writing many others. He directed several Abbott and Costello comedies and many Ma and Pa Kettle films. Biography A California native, Lamont was born in San Francisco. Lamont came from a family of actors, being the fourth generation to be an actor. He appeared onstage while a teenager and started appearing in films from 1919. He worked as a prop man before becoming assistant director. Lamont started directing comedy shorts in 1922, including for Mack Sennett and Al Christie. Some of Lamont's earliest directorial jobs were silent short-subject comedies for Educational Pictures. One of the studio's popular series was ''Juvenile Comedies'', featuring the child actor Malcolm "Big Boy" Sebastian. Lamont directed some of these films, as well as some of the competing " Buster Brown" comedies for Universal Pictures release. Both Educational and Universal figured p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gay Seabrook
Gay Seabrook (born Gladys Johnson; April 1, 1901 – April 18, 1970) was a film, Broadway and radio actress. Early years Seabrook was the daughter of Rufus Johnson, a newspaper circulation manager. Career In the mid 1920s, Seabrook portrayed Mary Margaret in the play ''The Fool'', which toured the United States for 62 weeks after having been presented "for some time in New York." She appeared in the Broadway productions of ''Crime Marches On'' (1935) and ''Three Men on a Horse'' (1942). Seabrook was teamed with comedian Emerson Treacy to form the double-act Treacy and Seabrook. The team was very successful on radio and in theater during the early 1930s, with routines similar to those of real husband-and-wife team Burns and Allen. The two had worked together in 1928, teamed as young lovers in a production of the play ''Tommy''. A newspaper article about the upcoming production described Treacy and Seabrook as "two of the best known portrayors of youthful roles in the country." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Rochelle
Claire Rochelle (1908–1981) was an American film actress. She played the female lead A leading actor, leading actress, or simply lead (), plays the role of the protagonist of a film, television show or play. The word ''lead'' may also refer to the largest role in the piece, and ''leading actor'' may refer to a person who typica ... in a number of western films, westerns.Pitts p.389 Selected filmography * ''Tanned Legs'' (1929) * ''It's Great to Be Alive (film), It's Great to Be Alive'' (1933) * ''Music in the Air (film), Music in the Air'' (1934) * ''Skybound (film), Skybound'' (1935) * ''I'll Name the Murderer'' (1936) * ''Colleen (1936 film), Colleen'' (1936) * ''Empty Saddles'' (1936) * ''After the Thin Man'' (1936) * ''Boothill Brigade'' (1937) * ''Thanks for Listening (film), Thanks for Listening'' (1937) * ''Guns in the Dark'' (1937) * ''She's Dangerous'' (1937) * ''Ridin' the Lone Trail'' (1937) * ''The Girl Said No (1937 film), The Girl Said No'' (1937) * ''Start Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Robards Sr
Jason Nelson Robards (December 31, 1892 – April 4, 1963) was an American stage and screen actor, and the father of Oscar-winning actor Jason Robards Jr. Robards appeared in many films, initially as a leading man, then in character roles and occasional bit parts. Most of his final roles were in television. Life and career Robards was born on a farm in Hillsdale, Michigan, the son of Elizabeth (née Loomis), a schoolteacher, and Frank P. Robards Sr., a farmer and post office inspector who managed Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Presidential campaign in Michigan. He was raised in Chicago, Illinois. He trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was billed simply as "Jason Robards" through most of his career, but in his latter years, after his namesake son took up acting, he was generally listed in credits as Jason Robards Sr. He died in 1963 (after which his son switched from "Jason Robards Jr." to "Jason Robards"). Contemporary actors Jason Robards III and Sam Robards are J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Phelps
Lee Phelps (born Napoleon Bonaparte Kukuck; May 15, 1893 – March 19, 1953) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 600 films between 1917 and 1953, mainly in uncredited roles. He also appeared in three films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture (''Grand Hotel'', '' You Can't Take It with You'', and ''Gone with the Wind''). Phelps appeared in the 1952 episode "Outlaw's Paradise" as a judge in the syndicated western television series, ''The Adventures of Kit Carson'', starring Bill Williams in the title role. He also appeared in a 1952 TV episode (#90) of ''The Lone Ranger''. Selected filmography * ''The Fuel of Life'' (1917) * '' Limousine Life'' (1918) * ''False Ambition'' (1918) as Peter van Dixon * '' The Secret Code'' (1918) * '' The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' (1920) * ''The Freshie'' (1922) * '' Baby Clothes'' (1926) * ''Putting Pants on Philip'' (1927) * ''Anna Christie'' (1930) as Larry * ''The Divorcee'' (1930) * ''Danger Lights'' (1930 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Meyer (writer)
Carl Meyer may refer to: * Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet (1851–1922), banker * Carl Meyer (rower) (born 1981), New Zealand rower * Carl Meyer (rugby union) (born 1991), South African rugby player * Carl Walther Meyer Carl Walther Meyer was a German stage and film actor and film editor. Meyer appeared in more than fifty productions during the silent and early sound eras.Giesen & Hobsch p.66 Selected filmography * '' Women Who Fall by the Wayside'' (1925) * '' ... (born 1898), German film actor * Carl Meyer (architect), German architect of, among many works, the Gasworks building, Bydgoszcz See also * Carl Mayer (other) * Karl Meyer (other) {{hndis, Meyer, Carl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilbur Mack
Wilbur Mack (born George Frear Runyon, July 29, 1873 – March 13, 1964) was an American film actor and early vaudeville performer from the 1920s through the 1960s. His film acting career began during the silent film era. Biography Mack was born and raised in Binghamton, New York, and began acting professionally when he joined a repertory theatre when he was 16. He found success performing vaudeville with first wife Nella Walker ("Mack and Walker"). The couple divorced not far into the marriage and Walker subsequently found success as a supporting actress in the "talkies." Mack, meantime, found a new partner: Gertrude Purdy, with whom he reprised his popular husband and wife vaudeville routine (this time headlined "Mack and Purdy"). In addition to performing, Mack wrote dialogue for skits and words and music for songs in their vaudeville shows. In 1925 Mack entered into a film acting career. His first film appearance was ''Gold and Grit''. With wife Gertrude, he also wrot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earle Hodgins
Earle Hodgins (October 6, 1893 – April 14, 1964) was an American actor. Career Early in his career, Hodgins was active in stock theater, including working in the Ralph Cloninger troupe of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Siegel Stock company of Seattle, Washington. He appeared in more than 330 films and television shows between 1932 and 1963. He specialized in playing fast-talking con men—often in westerns, such as ''The Lone Ranger'', ''Judge Roy Bean'', ''The Cisco Kid'', ''The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok'', '' Rawhide'', ''Maverick'' (in the episode "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" with James Garner and Jack Kelly), '' Lawman'', ''The Rifleman'', ''Cheyenne'', ''Have Gun – Will Travel'', ''Gunsmoke'' (Title role in “Uncle Oliver”, where he ambushes and shoots “Chester”), and ''Hopalong Cassidy''. In 1959 Hodgins appeared as Mr. Fane on '' Lawman'' in the episode "The Outsider." In the 1960–1961 season, he appeared in three episodes of Joanne Dru's ABC sitcom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Fay
Dorothy Fay (born Dorothy Alice Fay Southworth, April 4, 1915 – November 5, 2003) was an American actress mainly known for her appearances in Western movies. Early life and career She was born Dorothy Fay Southworth in Prescott, Arizona, the daughter of Harry T. Southworth and Harriet Fay Fox. Her father was a medical doctor. Fay attended the Caroline Leonetti School, the University of London, and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. She also studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Career Fay began her motion picture career in the late 1930s, performing in several B grade westerns. In 1938, she appeared opposite George Houston in '' Frontier Scout'' at Grand National Pictures. She also appeared with Western stars Buck Jones and William Elliott. Fay made four movies with her husband, country singer and actor Tex Ritter, at Monogram Pictures: ''Song of the Buckaroo'' (1938), ''Sundown on the Prairie'' (1939), ''Rollin' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilson Benge
George Frederick "Wilson" Benge (1 March 1875 – 1 July 1955) was an English actor who mostly featured in American films from the silent days. He appeared in over 200 films between 1922 and 1955. Along with actors Charles Coleman and Robert Greig, Benge was heavily typecast as butler or valet and was one of Hollywood's most familiar manservants in the 1930s and 1940s. He also appeared in several Laurel and Hardy comedies. He worked in films until his death. Selected filmography * ''Robin Hood'' (1922) * ''Alias Mary Flynn'' (1925) * '' Without Mercy'' (1925) * ''The Road to Yesterday'' (1925) * ''A Trip to Chinatown'' (1926) * ''The Clinging Vine'' (1926) * ''The Midnight Message'' (1926) * ''Fast and Furious'' (1927) * '' Do Detectives Think?'' (1927) * ''The Lone Eagle'' (1927) * ''The Battle of the Century'' (1927) * ''Alias the Deacon'' (1928) * ''That's My Daddy'' (1928) * ''You're Darn Tootin''' (1928) * ''A Gentleman Preferred'' (1928) * ''The Rush Hour'' (1928) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Keefe
James Keefe was an Irish RomanCatholic cleric who was the founder of St. Patrick's, Carlow College. He was Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin for over 35 years (1752-1787). He lived most of his time at Tullow Tullow (; , formerly ''Tulach Ó bhFéidhlim/ Tullowphelim'') is a market town in County Carlow, Ireland. It is located on the River Slaney where the N81 road intersects with the R725. , the population was 4,673. History There is a statue of ..., Co. Carlow. He was preceded by Bishop James Gallagher in 1737 and succeeded by Bishop Daniel Delany in 1787, who was his co-adjutor Bishop and also helped in the foundation of Carlow College. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Keefe, James Roman Catholic bishops of Kildare and Leighlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Hernandez (race Caller)
Joe Hernandez was the voice of Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, from the time the track opened on Christmas Day 1934 until he fainted at the microphone on January 27, 1972. It was reported 28 February 2016 on the TVG horseracing channel that Hernandez had been kicked by a horse earlier and died while calling a race at Santa Anita Park. During that time, he called 15,587 races in a row. Over the course of his career, his cry of "There they go!" echoed over a number of notable races including Seabiscuit’s win in the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap and Johnny Longden’s last ride in 1966. His cries of "And here comes Malicious!" and "Silky Sullivan trails …" are remembered to this day. Hernandez broke into the business of race calling in 1927 for Agua Caliente Racetrack at Tijuana, being developed by the first-ever race caller, Steward George Schilling, who on 5 February 1927 called the first race at the Mexican track. In 1932, he became the first race caller at Tanforan. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
