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Merry Wives Of Reno
''Merry Wives of Reno'' is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Hugh Herbert, Frank McHugh and Ruth Donnelly. The film was released by Warner Bros. on May 12, 1934. The plot and cast number are similar to the lost 1933 film ''Convention City''. Robert Lord was a writer in both films, though this one is not nearly as risque and racy. Plot Madge (Margaret Lindsay) and Lois (Ruth Donnelly) take the train from New York City to Reno, NV to get quickie divorces from their husbands. Cast * Guy Kibbee as Tom * Glenda Farrell as Bunny * Donald Woods as Frank * Margaret Lindsay as Madge * Hugh Herbert as Colonel Fitch * Frank McHugh as Al * Ruth Donnelly as Lois * Roscoe Ates as The Trapper (as Rosco Ates) * Hobart Cavanaugh as Derwent * Irving Bacon as Cook (scenes deleted) * Louise Beavers as Derwent's Client - Black Mother of 12 Wanting a Divorce (uncredited) * Edna Bennett as F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Bischoff
Samuel Bischoff (August 11, 1890 – May 21, 1975) was an American film producer who was responsible for more than 400 full-length films, two-reel comedies, and serials between 1922 and 1964. Life Born to a Jewish family in Hartford, Connecticut, Bischoff graduated from Boston University, then headed for Hollywood, where he began his career in 1922 by producing comedy shorts including Stan Laurel's ''Mixed Nuts'' (1922). He was the head of Samuel Bischoff Productions, a low-budget production company in the 1930s. He drew the attention of Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn, who hired him to supervise the studio's feature film productions. In 1932, he moved to Warner Bros. and when Hal B. Wallis became production chief after Darryl F. Zanuck left in 1933, Bischoff and Henry Blanke were the main producers at the studio. He returned to Columbia in 1941. He was also the President of Moroccan Pictures Inc. in 1948, producing the George Raft film ''Outpost in Morocco'' (1948). In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convention City
''Convention City'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code sex comedy film directed by Archie Mayo, and starring Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Mary Astor and Adolphe Menjou. The film was produced by Henry Blanke and First National Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Due to its racy content, ''Convention City'' was held from circulation after the Motion Picture Production Code was enacted in 1934. Prints were subsequently ordered to be destroyed by studio head Jack L. Warner. The film is considered Lost film, lost and has become one of the more coveted lost films because of its reported racy content. Plot The plot revolves around the convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. Throughout the film, the employees of Honeywell Rubber are mainly concerned with drinking and sex. President J.B. Honeywell (Grant Mitchell (actor), Grant Mitchell) is to choose a new company salesmanager. T.R. Kent (Adolphe Menjou) and George Ellerbe (Guy Kibbee) ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bess Flowers
Bess Flowers (November 23, 1898 – July 28, 1984) was an American actress best known for her work as an extra in hundreds of films. She was known as "The Queen of the Hollywood Extras," appearing in more than 350 feature films and numerous comedy shorts in her 41-year career. She holds the record for appearances in films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture (23).Slide, Anthony. 201Silent Players: a Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. p. 103. . Career Born in Sherman, Texas, Flowers' film debut came in 1923, when she appeared in '' Hollywood''. She made three films that year, and then began working extensively. Many of her appearances are uncredited, as she generally played non-speaking roles. By the 1930s, Flowers was in constant demand. Her appearances ranged from Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford thrillers to comedic roles alongside of Charley Chase, the Three Stooges, Leon Err ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Farrington
Betty Farrington (May 14, 1898 – February 3, 1989) was an American character actress active from the 1920s through 1960. Career overview Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Betty Farrington played mostly supporting and minor roles during her career, although she occasionally was given a featured or leading part, appearing in almost 100 films during her career. Some of the more notable films she appeared in include: Preston Sturges' ''The Lady Eve'' (1941), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda; 1942's ''My Favorite Blonde'' and 1947's ''My Favorite Brunette'', both starring Bob Hope; the classic film noir ''Double Indemnity'' (1944), starring Fred MacMurray, Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson; 1944's '' The Uninvited'', starring Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey; Cecil B. Demille's '' Unconquered'' (1948), starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard; the epic ''Samson and Delilah'' (1950), with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr in the title roles; ''Father of the Bride'' (1950), directed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Bill Elliott
Wild Bill Elliott (born Gordon Nance, October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films. Early life Elliott was born Gordon Nance on a ranch near Pattonsburg, Missouri, the son of Leroy Whitfield Nance, a cattle broker, and his wife, Maude Myrtle Auldridge."More About 'Wild Bill Elliott'", ''Daviess County issouriHistorical Society Journal'', March 15, 2004. The young Nance grew up within 20 miles of his birthplace; he spent most of his youth on a ranch near King City, Missouri. His father was a cattle rancher and commissioner buyer for the Kansas City stockyards. Riding and roping were part of Nance's upbringing. He won first place in a rodeo event in the 1920 American Royal livestock show. He briefly attended Rockhurst College, a Jesuit school in Kansas City, but soon left for California with hopes of becoming an actor. Career By 1925, he was getting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Eaton
Jay Eaton (March 17, 1899 – February 5, 1970) was an American character actor whose career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. Biography Born on March 17, 1899, in Union, New Jersey, Eaton entered the film industry with a featured role in the 1920 silent film ''Her First Elopement''. Over the next 32 years, according to some sources, he would appear in almost 200 films, usually in smaller uncredited roles, or as a background extra. During the course of his career, he would appear in many notable films, including: '' Stage Mother'' (1933), ''Morning Glory'' (1933), '' A Night at the Opera'' (1935), ''Mr. Deeds Goes to Town'' (1936), ''Cover Girl'' (1944), ''Rhapsody in Blue'' (1945), '' Brewster's Millions'' (1945), ''The Big Sleep'' (1946), ''The Blue Dahlia'' (1946), ''The Kid from Brooklyn'' (1946), ''The Fuller Brush Man'' (1948), ''The Fountainhead'' (1949), and '' Young Man with a Horn'' (1950). His final appearance would be in William Wyler's 1952 film, ''Carri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Du Brey
Claire Du Brey (born Clara Violet Dubreyvich, August 31, 1892 – August 1, 1993) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 200 films between 1916 and 1959. Her name is sometimes rendered as Claire Du Bray or as Claire Dubrey. Early years Du Brey was born in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, to an ethnic Croat father from Dalmatia (who anglicized his name to Matthew Dubrey before his marriage), and an Irish-American mother, Lilly (née Henry), later Mrs. Richard Fugitt. Her parents married on November 9, 1891 in Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho. She was raised Catholic and attended a convent school. Du Brey "had trained as a nurse". She related that in 1897 she traveled west from Idaho in a covered wagon with her mother and her grandfather. Career Du Brey's screen career began with Universal Studios and she played at one time or another with almost all the larger companies. More notable films in which she appeared were ''Anything Once'' (1917), '' Social Briars'' (1918), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lester Dorr
Lester Dorr (born Harry Lester Dorr; May 8, 1893 – August 25, 1980) was an American actor who between 1917 and 1975 appeared in well over 500 productions on stage, in feature films and shorts, and in televised plays and weekly series. Even a sampling from his extensive filmography attests to his versatility as a supporting actor and his reliability as a bit player. His roles are at times credited, but more often they are uncredited, consisting of peripheral characters who have limited dialogue or appear briefly in a wide range of occupations such as newspaper reporters, hotel clerks and bellhops, taxi drivers, salesmen, police officers, military personnel, waiters, and bartenders. Early life and stage work Harry Lester Dorr was born in Massachusetts in 1893, the oldest of 11 children of Mary E. (née McGinnis) and Edward Peter Dorr."Twelfth Census of the United States: 1900", Boston, Ward 22, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, June 2, 1900; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Doran
Mary Doran (September 8, 1910 – September 6, 1995) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 80 films from 1927 to 1944. Biography Doran was born in New York and attended public schools there before graduating and going to Columbia University. She left Columbia after three years to pursue a career on stage. She sang and danced in Belle Baker's ''Betsy'' when it was in New York. Later, she performed in Flo Ziegfeld's ''Rio Rita''. Doran's films included ''Broadway Melody'', ''Half a Bride'', and ''The Trial of Mary Dugan''. In 1929, Doran was under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Personal life On August 15, 1931, Doran married Joseph Sherman in San Diego, California. Sherman was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's chief publicity director. Partial filmography * '' Half a Bride'' (1928) * '' Lucky Boy'' (1929) * ''The Girl in the Show'' (1929) * ''Their Own Desire'' (1929) * ''The Broadway Melody'' (1929) * ''The Trial of Mary Dugan'' (1929) * ''They Learned About Women'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Crehan
Joseph A. Creaghan (July 15, 1883 – April 15, 1966) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1916 and 1965, and notably played Ulysses S. Grant nine times between 1939 and 1958, most memorably in ''Union Pacific'' and ''They Died with Their Boots On''. Early life Born in Baltimore, Maryland. he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Crehan. He attended Calvert Hall College and Kent College of Law but left the latter because of his stronger interest in drama. Early in his career, Crehan worked in light comedy. He was in his late 30s when he began doing character roles. Career Crehan's Broadway credits include ''Twentieth Century'' (1932), ''Lilly Turner'' (1932), ''Angels Don't Kiss'' (1932), ''Those We Love'' (1930), ''Sweet Land of Liberty'' (1929), ''Merry Andrew'' (1929), ''Ringside'' (1928), and ''Yosemite'' (1914). Crehan often played alongside Charles C. Wilson with whom he is sometimes confused. In 1961, credited as "Joe Crehan", he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Christy
Dorothy Christy (born Dorothea J. Seltzer, later Dorothy Rucker; May 26, 1906 – May 21, 1977) was an American actress. She was sometimes billed as Dorothy Christie. Early years Christy was born Dorothea J. Seltzer on May 26, 1906, in Reading, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Seltzer. Although she sometimes participated in amateur plays, she had no plans for an acting career. After attended public schools in Reading, she went to Beachwood (a finishing school near Philadelphia) and then to Dana Hall School near Boston. She went on to study opera. Career On Broadway, Christy was a member of the ensemble of ''The New Moon'' (1928) and portrayed Olive in ''Follow Thru'' (1929). Christy acted with Will Rogers, Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers (appearing in the pre-filming stage version of '' A Night at the Opera)'' and with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the film '' Sons of the Desert'' (1933), in the role of Mrs. Laurel. She was Queen Tika of Mur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Beavers
Louise Beavers (March 8, 1902 – October 26, 1962) was an American film and television actress. From the 1920s until 1960, she appeared in dozens of films and two hit television shows. She was most often cast in the roles of a maid, servant or slave. Early life Beavers was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to school teacher Ernestine (Monroe) Beavers and William M. Beavers, who was originally from Georgia. Due to her mother's illness, Louise and her parents moved to Pasadena, California. She graduated from Pasadena High School. In Pasadena, she attended school and engaged in several after-school activities, such as basketball and church choir. Her mother also worked as a voice teacher and taught Louise how to sing for concerts. In June 1920, she graduated from Pasadena High School. She worked as a dressing room attendant for a photographer and served as a personal maid to film star Leatrice Joy. Like her cousin, Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company co-founder, George Beav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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