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Moon Over Harlem
''Moon Over Harlem'' is a 1939 American race film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Plot summary A gangster, Dollar Bill Richards, seduces a wealthy widow, Minnie, to get his hands on her money. Cast * Bud Harris as Dollar Bill * Cora Green as Minnie * Izinetta Wilcox as Sue * Earl Gough as Bob * Zerita Steptean as Jackie * Petrina Moore as Alice * Daphne Fray as Pat *Mercedes Gilbert as Jackie's mother * Frances Harrod as Maud * Alec Lovejoy as Fats *Walter Richardson as Brother Hornsby * Slim Thompson as Long-Boy *Freddie Robinson as Half-Pint *John Bunn as Wallstreet * Marieluise Bechet as Nina Mae Brown *Archie Cross as A Boy from Newark * William Woodward as A Boy from Newark *John Fortune as Jamaica * Audrey Talbird as Connie * Marie Young as Jean * Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew as Themselves *Sidney Bechet Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar G
Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Eadgar'' (composed of '' ead'' "rich, prosperous" and ''gar'' "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, revived in the 18th century, and was popularised by its use for a character in Sir Walter Scott's ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' (1819). People with the given name * Edgar the Peaceful (942–975), king of England * Edgar the Ætheling (c. 1051 – c. 1126), last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England * Edgar of Scotland (1074–1107), king of Scotland * Edgar Angara, Filipino lawyer * Edgar Barrier, American actor * Edgar Baumann, Paraguayan javelin thrower * Edgar Bergen, American actor, radio performer, ventriloquist * Edgar Berlanga, American boxer * Edgar H. Brown, American mathematician * Edgar Buchanan, American actor * Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author, creator of ''Tarzan'' * Edgar Cantero, Spanish author in Catalan, Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrina Moore
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Petrina may refer to: * Petrina, Arcadia, a village in Arcadia, Greece * Petrina, Laconia, a village in the Sminos municipal unit, Laconia, Greece * Petrina, Kostel, a village near Kostel * Petrina (surname) *Petrina (given name) Petrina is a feminine given name. List of people with the given name * Petrina Fung (born 1954), Malaysian-born Chinese actress in Hong Kong * Petrina Haingura (born 1959), Namibian politician * Petrina Holdsworth (born 1952), British barrister a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis Armstrong. His erratic temperament hampered his career, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim. Bechet spent much of his later life in France. Biography Early life Bechet was born in New Orleans in 1897 to a middle-class Creole of color family. Bechet's father Omar was both a shoemaker and a flute player, and all four of his brothers were musicians as well. His older brother, Leonard Victor Bechet, was a full-time dentist and a part-time trombonist and bandleader. Bechet learned and mastered several musical instruments that were kept around the house (he began on the cornet), mostly by teaching himself; he decided to specialize in the clarinet (which he played almost exclusively until about 1919). At the age of six, he started to perform w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Columbus And His Swing Crew
Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρειν (''phérein''), "to bear"; hence the "Christ-bearer". As a given name, 'Christopher' has been in use since the 10th century. In English, Christopher may be abbreviated as " Chris", "Topher", and sometimes "Kit". It was frequently the most popular male first name in the United Kingdom, having been in the top twenty in England and Wales from the 1940s until 1995, although it has since dropped out of the top 100. The name is most common in England and not so common in Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. People with the given name Antiquity and Middle Ages * Saint Christopher (died 251), saint venerated by Catholics and Orthodox Christians * Christopher (Domestic of the Schools) (fl. 870s), Byzantine general * Christopher Lekapenos (died 931), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Young (actress)
Mary Marsden Young (June 21, 1879 – June 23, 1971) was an American stage and film actress whose career spanned the first sixty years of the 20th century. She started her career in the theatre and ended playing elderly ladies in film and lastly on television. Her first Broadway credit was in 1899. On stage she scored a memorable hit in 1913 playing opposite John Barrymore in the stage version of ''Believe Me, Xantippe''. 1924 saw her on Broadway in ''Dancing Mothers'' opposite John Halliday and Helen Hayes who played the daughter later made famous by Clara Bow in a silent film. She was approaching 60 in 1937 when she made her first Hollywood movie. She made many television appearances in the 1950s and 1960s. Her last television appearance was in a 1968 episode of ''Gomer Pyle''. She and her husband, actor John Craig, had two children, the eldest of whom, Harmon Bushnell Craig, was killed at 22 while serving in World War I. Their other son, John Craig Jr., died in Los Angeles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Talbird
Audrey () is an English feminine given name. It is the Anglo-Norman form of the Anglo-Saxon name ''Æðelþryð'', composed of the elements ''æðel'' "noble" and ''þryð'' "strength". The Anglo-Norman form of the name was applied to Saint Audrey (d. 679), also known by the historical form of her name as Saint Æthelthryth. The same name also survived into the modern period in its Anglo-Saxon form, as ''Etheldred'', e.g. Etheldred Benett (1776–1845). In the 17th century, the name of ''Saint Audrey'' gave rise to the adjective ''tawdry'' "cheap and pretentious; cheaply adorned". The lace necklaces sold to pilgrims to Saint Audrey fell out of fashion in the 17th century, and so tawdry was reinterpreted as meaning cheap or vulgar. As a consequence, use of the name declined, but it was revived in the 19th century. Popularity of the name in the United States peaked in the interbellum period, but it fell below rank 100 in popularity by 1940 and was not frequently given in the later h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fortune
John Fortune (born John C. Wood; 30 June 1939 – 31 December 2013) was an English satirist, comedian, writer, and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series ''Bremner, Bird and Fortune''. Early life Fortune was born John Wood in Bristol in 1939. He was educated at Bristol Cathedral School and King's College, Cambridge, where he was to meet and form a lasting friendship with John Bird. He was a member of the semi-secretive Cambridge Apostles society, a debating club largely reserved for the brightest students. Career Fortune's early work included contributions to Peter Cook's Establishment Club team in 1962, and as a regular member of the cast of the BBC-TV satire show ''Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life'', both alongside Eleanor Bron and John Bird. Fortune and Bird also worked together on the TV show ''A Series of Birds'' in 1967, and Fortune and Bron wrote and performed a series of sketches for TV in '' Where Was Spring?'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Woodward (actor)
William Woodward may refer to: Politicians * William Woodward (South Carolina politician), U.S. Representative from South Carolina *William Culham Woodward (1885–1957), Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia *William Woodward (MP) for Dunwich Others * William Woodward (fl. 1851), English pharmacist who invented gripe water * William Woodward (cricketer) (died 1862), English cricketer * William G. Woodward (1808–1871), Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court * William Woodward (artist) (1859–1939), American artist and educator * William Creighton Woodward (1866–1949), American doctor and lawyer * William Woodward Sr. (1876–1953), American banker and owner of Belair Stud * William Woodward (rower) (1920-1987), British Olympic rower * William Woodward Jr. William Woodward Jr. (June 12, 1920 – October 31, 1955) was the heir to the Hanover National Bank fortune (later Manufacturer's Hanover), the Belair Estate and stud farm and legacy, and a leading figure in racing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Cross
Arthur George "Archie" Cross (1880 – after 1909) was an English footballer. Cross was born in Dartford, Kent and started his career at Dartford F.C., before joining nearby Woolwich Arsenal in April 1900. A right back, he was initially the understudy to Duncan McNichol, but made his debut in a 1–1 draw with Blackpool on 6 October 1900. After playing just three games in 1900–01, he played in fifteen of Arsenal's first nineteen games of 1901–02, before losing his place again to McNichol. After another season as backup, he finally won a regular place in the side in 1903–04, during which Arsenal won promotion to the First Division for the first time in their history. However, after Arsenal were promoted they signed his namesake Archie Gray, and Gray was included in the Arsenal side at the expense of Cross, who only played in just over a third of Arsenal's matches in their first three seasons in the top flight. In 1907 he switched sides to left back but was mainly use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slim Thompson
Slim or SLIM may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Slim Goodbody, a fictional character who teaches about anatomy * Slim, one of the alien antagonists of the 1988 film ''Killer Klowns from Outer Space'' * Slim, the Pixl from '' Super Paper Mario'' * Slim Bankshot, the 13th ghost that Luigi encounters in ''Luigi's Mansion'' * Slim, a character in John Steinbeck's 1937 novel '' Of Mice and Men'' * Slim, a walking stick in the 1998 animated film '' A Bug's Life'' Music * Slim (band), a musical group from Oakland, California * Slim (New Zealand band), a rock band * Slim (singer) (born 1977 as Marvin Scandrick), American R&B singer and lead vocalist of the group 112 * Slim Harpo (1924–1970), American blues musician * Slim Shady, alter ego of American rapper Eminem * Slim Thug, American rapper Stayve Jerome Thomas (born 1980) * Slim Whitman, stage name of American country and western music singer, songwriter and musician Ottis Whitman Jr. (1923–2013) * Fatbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Lovejoy
Alec or Aleck is a Scottish form of the given name Alex. It may be a diminutive of the name Alexander or a given name in its own right. Notable people with the name include: People *Alec Aalto (1942–2018), Finnish diplomat *Alec Acton (1938–1994), English footballer *Alec Albiston (1917–1998), Australian rules footballer *Alec Alston (1937–2009), English footballer *Alec and Peter Graham (1881–1957), New Zealand mountaineers, guides, and hotel operators *Alec Anderson (1894–1953), American NFL player *Alec Asher (born 1991), American MLB player *Alec Ashworth (1939–1995), English professional footballer *Alec Astle (born 1949), New Zealand former cricketer *Alec Atkinson (1919–2015), British Royal Air Force officer and civil servant *Alec B. Francis (1867–1934), English silent-film actor *Alec Bagot (1893–1968), South Australian adventurer, polemicist, and politician *Alec Baillie (died 2020), American bassist *Alec Baldwin (born 1958), American actor *Alec Bang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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