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Let's Fall In Love (film)
''Let's Fall in Love'' is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic musical film starring Edmund Lowe and Ann Sothern. Released by Columbia Pictures, the film was directed by David Burton and written by Herbert Fields. The songs ''Let's Fall in Love'' (not to be confused with the Cole Porter song sometimes called ''Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love'') and ''Love Is Love Anywhere'' were introduced by Ann Sothern in this film. The film was later remade in 1949 by Douglas Sirk as Slightly French, starring Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour. Plot A Hollywood director (Edmund Lowe) finds himself in trouble when his latest Swedish discovery departs the shooting of his film. He finds the perfect candidate in a girl working at a fair (Ann Sothern). The only problem is, she is not in fact Swedish; a minor detail but one that can be sorted by deft handiwork and a bit of pretence. Cast * Edmund Lowe as Ken * Ann Sothern as Jean * Miriam Jordan as Gerry * Gregory Ratoff as Max * Greta Meyer as Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Cohn
Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891 – February 27, 1958) was a co-founder, president, and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation. Life and career Cohn was born to a working-class Jewish family in New York City. His father, Joseph Cohn, was a tailor from Germany, and his mother, Bella Joseph, was from Pale of Settlement, Russian Empire. He left school early and had a variety of jobs, including chorus boy, fur salesman, pool hustler, shipping clerk, streetcar conductor and song plugger for a sheet music printer. He also appeared in a vaudeville act with Harry Ruby. He entered the film industry when he got a job with Independent Moving Pictures (which had recently merged to become part of Universal Film Manufacturing Company), where his elder brother, Jack Cohn, was already employed. The brothers made their first film there, '' Traffic in Souls''. Cohn became personal secretary to Universal president, Carl Laemmle. In 1919, Cohn joined his brother and fellow IMP employee Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Ameche
Don Ameche (; born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, stock, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which led to the offer of a movie contract from 20th Century Fox in 1935. As a handsome, debonair leading man in 40 films over the next 14 years, he starred in comedies, dramas, and musicals. In the 1950s he worked on Broadway and in television, and was the host of NBC's ''International Showtime'' from 1961 to 1965. Returning to film work in his later years, Ameche enjoyed a fruitful revival of his career beginning with his role as a villain in ''Trading Places'' (1983) and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in '' Cocoon'' (1985). Early life Don Ameche was born as Dominic Felix Amici on May 31, 1908, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His father, Felice Amici, was a bartender from Montemonaco, Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Pictures Films
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American Black-and-white Films
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American Romantic Musical Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930s Romantic Musical Films
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1933 Films
The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1933 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading news events of the year in North America. * Motion picture industry goes under National Recovery Administration code. * Receivers appointed for Paramount Publix, RKO and Fox Theatres. * Film industry takes eight week salary cut. * Sirovich bill for sweeping probe of film industry is defeated. * John D. Hertz withdraws as Paramount Publix finance chairman and Adolph Zukor appoints George J. Schaefer as general manager. * Sidney Kent effects financial reorganization of Fox Film Corp., averting receivership, and company shows first profit since 1930. * Ruling of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware creates "open market" for sound equipment. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Qualen
John Qualen (born Johan Mandt Kvalen, December 8, 1899 – September 12, 1987) was an American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles. Early years Qualen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of immigrants from Norway; his father was a Lutheran minister and changed the family's original surname, "Kvalen", to "Qualen" – though some sources give Oleson, later Oleson Kvalen as Qualen's earlier surnames. His father's ministering meant many moves and John was 20 when he graduated from Elgin (Illinois) High School in 1920. For four years, Qualen attended the University of Toronto, but he left there to join a Toronto-based traveling troupe as an actor. Career In a ''Milwaukee Journal'' interview he said he needed to start working and did so with the Chautauqua Circuit. He drove stakes for the tent used for presentations until a night in Ripon, Wisconsin, when the scheduled principal lecturer did not arrive. Qualen replaced the mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Furness
Elizabeth Mary Furness (January 3, 1916 – April 2, 1994) was an American actress, consumer advocate, and current affairs commentator. Early years Furness was born in Manhattan, the daughter of wealthy business executive George Choate Furness and his wife Florence. She attended the Brearley School and Bennett Junior College. Furness made her stage debut in the school holidays in the title role of ''Alice in Wonderland''. She also posed for commercial advertising. She began her professional career as a model before being noticed by a talent scout and being signed to a film contract in 1932 by RKO Studios. Her first film role was as the "Thirteenth Woman" in the film ''Thirteen Women'' (1932) but her scenes were deleted before the film's release. Over the next few years, she appeared in several RKO films, and became a popular actress. Among her film successes were ''Magnificent Obsession'' (1935) and the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film ''Swing Time'' (1936). By the end of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greta Meyer
Greta Meyer (7 August 18838 October 1965) was a German actress in motion pictures beginning in the silent film era. Biography Meyer belonged to a German family that was comparable to the Barrymore family in America. At age 3 she debuted on stage with her father's stock company. She went on to perform in operettas and plays in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, and other cities in Europe. She sang for Austria's emperor and Kaiser Wilhelm, and she starred in ''The Merry Widow'' for the Count of Luxembourg. Her early film efforts came in films like '' De jantjes'' (1922) and ''Die Königsloge'' (1929). Meyer came to the United States as the star of an operetta company. When the operetta's run was completed, she stayed in New York, starring in ''The Bat'' and other plays.She began a German theater in New York, but anti-German feelings following World War I diminished attendance and caused protests, leading to the theater's closing. She went on to study Yiddish and to perform acros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Ratoff
Gregory Ratoff (born Grigory Vasilyevich Ratner; russian: Григорий Васильевич Ратнер, tr. ; April 20, c. 1893 – December 14, 1960) was a Russian-born American film director, actor and producer. As an actor, he was best known for his role as producer "Max Fabian" in ''All About Eve'' (1950). Biography Ratoff was born in Samara, Russia, to Jewish parents. His mother was Sophie (née Markison) who claimed to have been born on September 1, 1878, but was married on June 14, 1894, when she would have been 15, to Benjamin Ratner (born 1864), with whom she had four children, the eldest of whom was Grigory, whose date of birth she gave as April 7, 1895 but later April 20 was cited as Gregory Ratoff's birthdate, and the year given as 1893, 1896 and 1897, variously. Sophie Ratner later adopted her son's stage surname (Ratoff) when she herself became a naturalized United States citizen. Sophie Ratoff died on August 27, 1955. Her date of birth is given as September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Jordan
Miriam Jordan (3 March 1904 – 4 December 1987) was a British stage and film actress.Solomon p.144 She enjoyed a brief career in Hollywood Hollywood usually refers to: * Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California * Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States Hollywood may also refer to: Places United States * Hollywood District (other) * Hollywood, ... as a leading lady during the early 1930s, but most of her work was confined to the stage. Selected filmography References Bibliography * Aubrey Solomon. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011. External links * 1904 births 1987 deaths British film actresses Actresses from London 20th-century British actresses 20th-century English women 20th-century English people {{UK-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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