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Mira McKinney
Mira McKinney (October 23, 1892 – May 2, 1978) was an American actress. She appeared in the films ''The Case of the Stuttering Bishop'', ''Blazing Sixes'', '' Young Fugitives'', '' The Road to Reno'', '' Garden of the Moon'', ''Prairie Moon'', '' The Great Waltz'', '' I Stole a Million'', ''The House of the Seven Gables'', '' An Angel from Texas'', '' Alias the Deacon'', '' Hot Steel'', '' Third Finger, Left Hand'', '' Life Begins for Andy Hardy'', '' A Dangerous Game'', '' Double Trouble'', '' Red River Robin Hood'', ''Pittsburgh'', ''Rhythm of the Islands'', '' Moonlight in Vermont'', ''The Mummy's Ghost'', '' Till We Meet Again'', '' Rough Riders of Cheyenne'', '' Hold That Blonde'', ''Fallen Angel'', ''Junior Prom'', '' Shadows Over Chinatown'', '' Beat the Band'', ''Linda, Be Good'', '' Sitting Pretty'', ''The Doolins of Oklahoma'', '' Destination Big House'', '' Fancy Pants'', ''Harriet Craig'', '' The Groom Wore Spurs'', '' Heart of the Rockies'', ''Rainbow 'Round My Sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Case Of The Stuttering Bishop
''The Case of the Stuttering Bishop'' is a 1937 drama film directed by William Clemens. It stars Donald Woods as Perry Mason and Ann Dvorak as Della Street, his secretary. Edward McWade plays the role of stuttering Bishop William Mallory. It is the sixth and final film in the Warner Bros. Perry Mason series. It is based on the novel ''The Case of the Stuttering Bishop'' (1936) by Erle Stanley Gardner. Plot Perry is asked by an Australian Bishop to take the case of a woman who was falsely accused of manslaughter 22 years ago. During his investigations Perry gets involved in another murder for which Ida, the woman he is supposed to free, gets arrested. Cast * Donald Woods as Perry Mason * Ann Dvorak as Della Street * Anne Nagel as Janice Alma Brownley * Linda Perry as Janice Seaton * Craig Reynolds as Gordon Bixler * Gordon Oliver as Philip Brownley * Joseph Crehan as Paul Drake * Helen MacKellar as Stella Kenwood (as Helen McKellar) * Edward McWade as Bishop William Mallory * To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburgh (1942 Film)
''Pittsburgh'' is a 1942 American drama film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, and John Wayne. Based on a story by George Owen and Tom Reed, the film is about an ambitious coal miner who values wealth and power in the Pittsburgh steel industry over his friends, lovers, and ideals, only to find himself deserted and alone at the top. When his fortune crumbles around him, he discovers that fate offers him an unexpected second chance. Filmed partially on location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the film co-stars Shemp Howard of Three Stooges fame in a rare dramatic role. Dietrich, Scott, and Wayne also made ''The Spoilers (1942 film), The Spoilers'' together that same year. Scott received top billing over Wayne in both films despite the fact that Wayne's roles were larger and more important. Plot Pittsburgh Markham is a coal miner with ambitions. His self-confidence manifests itself in a lack of consideration for others. He's usually friendly but he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doolins Of Oklahoma
''The Doolins of Oklahoma'' is a 1949 American Western film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Randolph Scott, George Macready and Louise Allbritton. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Plot When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, KS, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang, marries and tries to start a new life under a new name. But the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. So once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law. Written by Maurice VanAuken Cast * Randolph Scott as Bill Doolin / Bill Daley * George Macready as Marshal Sam Hughes * Louise Allbritton as Rose of Cimarron * John Ireland as Bitter Creek * Virginia Huston as Elaine Burton * Charles Kemper as Thomas "Arkansas" Jones * Noah Beery Jr. as Little Bill * Dona Drake as Cattle Annie * Robert Barrat as Marshal Heck Thomas * Lee Patrick as Meli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sitting Pretty (1948 Film)
''Sitting Pretty'' is a 1948 American comedy film which tells the story of a family who hires Lynn Belvedere, a man with a mysterious past, to babysit their children. It stars Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, and Clifton Webb. The film was adapted by F. Hugh Herbert from Gwen Davenport's 1947 comic novel ''Belvedere''. It was directed by Walter Lang. The character of Belvedere proved so popular, Webb reprised his role in two more movies: ''Mr. Belvedere Goes to College'' (1949) and '' Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell'' (1951). Plot Lawyer Harry King and his wife Tacey have trouble retaining a nanny for their three young, rambunctious boys. When the latest in a string of servants (all women) quits, Tacey advertises for a replacement and hires Lynn Belvedere sight unseen, only to discover upon his arrival that Lynn is a dapper gentleman, one with many skills and achievements. Despite their misgivings (and Belvedere's declaration that he detests children), the Kings reluctantly agree t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda, Be Good
''Linda, Be Good'' is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Elyse Knox, John Hubbard and Marie Wilson. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lewis H. Creber.Stephens p.65 Sidney W. Pink took the film and added some additional footage and released it under the alternative title ''I Was a Burlesque Queen'' in 1953. Synopsis A married woman joins a burlesque troupe to gather research for a novel she is writing without her husband knowing. However this leads to complications when she meets her husband's boss. Cast * Elyse Knox as Linda Prentiss * John Hubbard as Roger Prentiss * Marie Wilson as Margie LaVitte * Gordon Richards as Sam Thompson * Jack Norton as Jim Benson * Ralph Sanford as Nunnally LaVitte * Joyce Compton as Mrs. LaVitte * Frank J. Scannell as Eddie Morgan * The Cameo Girls as Chorus Line * Leonard Bremen as Sgt. Hrublchka * Gerald Oliver Smith as Butler * Claire Carleton as Myrtle * Allan Nixon as Officer J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beat The Band (film)
''Beat the Band'' is a 1947 American musical film directed by John H. Auer and written by Lawrence Kimble, Clarence Kimble and Arthur A. Ross. The film stars Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Phillip Terry, Gene Krupa and June Clayworth. The film was released on February 19, 1947, by RKO Pictures. Plot A small town girl named Ann Rogers (Frances Langford) is fooled by a bandleader posing as an opera teacher, another man’s wife posing as the opera teacher’s wife, and $3,000 of her own money stolen to pay for musicians in the band. Cast *Frances Langford as Ann Rogers *Ralph Edwards as Eddie Martin *Phillip Terry as Damon Dillingham *Gene Krupa as himself *June Clayworth as Willow Martin *Mabel Paige as Mrs. Peters *Andrew Tombes as 'Professor' Enrico Blanchetti / Mr. Dillingham *Donald MacBride as P. Aloysius Duff *Mira McKinney as Mrs. Elvira Rogers * Harry Harvey, Sr. as Mr. Rogers *Grady Sutton Grady Harwell Sutton (April 5, 1906 – September 17, 1995) was an A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadows Over Chinatown
''Shadows Over Chinatown'' is a 1946 film directed by Terry O. Morse. It is the second to last film featuring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. Plot Chan investigates a murder for profit racket in San Francisco. Toller was in poor health during the filming of this, and so much of the film is carried by the comedic interplay between #2 Son (Victor Sen Yung) and chauffeur, Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland). Cast *Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan *Victor Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan *Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown *Tanis Chandler as Mary Conover (alias Mary McCoy), former employee of an escort service * Mary Gordon as Mrs. Conover, grandmother of Mary Conover * Bruce Kellogg as Corp. Joe Thomas (alias Jack Tilford), sweetheart of Mary Conover * Paul Bryar as Mike Rogan, manager at the escort agency, former boss of Mary Conover *John Gallaudet as Craig Winfield, owner of escort agency, alias "Private Investigator" Jeff Hay * Alan Bridge as Capt. Allen *Jack Norton Jack Norton (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Prom
''Junior Prom'' is a 1946 American musical comedy, directed by Arthur Dreifuss and produced by Sam Katzman and Maurice Duke. It was released by Monogram Pictures. It is the first of The Teen Agers series of movies. In 2018, the film was released on streaming download with a humorous audio commentary by Mary Jo Pehl and Bridget Nelson on RiffTrax. Harry Gibson sings '' Keep The Beat'' backed by Abe Lyman and his Orchestra Plot summary Musical teacher Miss Hinklefink receives criticism from her student Lee Watson at Whitney High School, because of the poor plot of famous operas. Later during the lecture, when Miss Hinklefink is away for a few minutes, the students learn about meter from Harry "The Hipster" by listening to swing. When Lee as so often is in the principal's office, a local businessman enters the room and offers to pay for the football team's new uniforms if his son, Jimmy Forrest, is elected as student body president. The principal, Townley, rejects the offer. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fallen Angel (1945 Film)
''Fallen Angel'' is a 1945 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger, with cinematography by Joseph LaShelle, who had also worked with Preminger on '' Laura'' a year before. The film features Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell and Charles Bickford. ''Fallen Angel'' was Faye's last film as a major Hollywood star, and she did not appear in another film until ''State Fair'' (1962). Plot Eric Stanton, a well-dressed but down-on-his-luck drifter, feigns sleep but gets pulled off a bus in the hamlet of Walton because he does not have the fare to continue to San Francisco. He finds a low-budget diner called "Pop's Eats", where Pop is worried about waitress Stella because she has not shown up for work for days. Ex-New York cop Mark Judd tells him not to worry, and the sultry Stella soon returns. Stanton is attracted to her, but she is unimpressed by his smooth talk. Stanton cons his way into a job with Professor Madley, a traveling fortune teller and spiritualist. He goes to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hold That Blonde
''Hold That Blonde'' is a 1945 American comedy crime film directed by George Marshall and starring Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake and Albert Dekker. Plot Bracken plays a kleptomaniac who unwittingly becomes involved with a gang of jewel thieves, including a beautiful woman, Sally, whom he promptly falls in love with, initially unaware of her true occupation. Cast *Eddie Bracken as Ogden Spencer Trulow III *Veronica Lake as Sally Martin *Albert Dekker as Insp Callahan * Frank Fenton as Mr. Phillips * George Zucco as Dr. Paval Storasky *Donald MacBride as Mr. Kratz *Lewis Russell as Henry Carteret *Norma Varden as Mrs. Carteret *Willie Best as Willie *Jack Norton as the drunk *Lyle Latell as Tony Production The film was originally known as ''Good Intentions''. Officially it is a remake of '' Paths to Paradise'', a 1925 silent comedy starring Raymond Griffith, inasmuch as both are based on the same play, ''Heart of a Thief'' by Paul Armstrong. However, the storyline was almost enti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rough Riders Of Cheyenne
''Rough Riders of Cheyenne'' is a 1945 American Western film directed by Thomas Carr and written by Elizabeth Beecher. The film stars Sunset Carson, Peggy Stewart, Mira McKinney, Monte Hale, Wade Crosby and Michael Sloane. The film was released on November 1, 1945, by Republic Pictures. Plot A long simmering feud between the Carson and Sterling families erupts in western frontier town of Paradise Valley. Sunset Carson (played by the real-life Sunset Carson) hears that his father has been murdered by the Sterling family, and heads for his home town in Arizona after having lived out of state for years. Along the journey home he is attacked by an unidentified group of assailants. Carson survives the ambush, and reaches his family home. He is elated to learn that his father, Andy Carson (Eddy Waller), was wounded but survived the attack. The senior Carson tells his son that the feud is still a real problem because he, Andy, has been falsely accused of killing Sterling cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Till We Meet Again (1944 Film)
''Till We Meet Again'' is a 1944 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage, written by Lenore J. Coffee, and starring Ray Milland, Barbara Britton, Walter Slezak, Lucile Watson, Konstantin Shayne, Vladimir Sokoloff and Mona Freeman. It was released on August 30, 1944, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Cast *Ray Milland as John * Barbara Britton as Sister Clothilde / Louise Dupree *Walter Slezak as Vitrey *Lucile Watson as Mother Superior *Konstantin Shayne as Major Krupp *Vladimir Sokoloff as Cabeau *Mona Freeman as Elise * William Edmunds as Henri Maret Radio adaptation ''Till We Meet Again'' was presented on the ''Kate Smith Hour'' September 24, 1944. Jeanne Cagney and Franchot Tone Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television. He was a leading man in the 1930s and early 1940s, and at the height of his career was known ... starred in the adaptation. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |