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Navy Nurse
''Navy Nurse'' is a 1945 American short film directed by D. Ross Lederman and starring Warren Douglas, Andrea King Andrea King (born Georgette André Barry; February 1, 1919 – April 22, 2003) was an American stage, film, and television actress, sometimes billed as Georgette McKee. Early life Andrea King was born Georgette André Barry on February 1, 1919, ..., and Marjorie Riordan. External links * 1945 films American short films Films directed by D. Ross Lederman American black-and-white films {{short-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Douglas
Warren Douglas (born Warren Douglas Wandberg; July 29, 1911 – November 15, 1997) was an American actor and screenwriter. Career Born in Minneapolis, Douglas was a 1929 graduate of Minneapolis South High School. He later attended the Minneapolis College of Music. Douglas' work on stage included work in local theater and acting in productions in summer stock theater. On Broadway, he had the role of Alec Dixon in ''Happily Ever After'' (1945). Beginning in the 1950s, Douglas focused his efforts more on writing than on acting. He wrote two novels, ''The Man from Wells Fargo'', and ''One Came Alone'', in addition to 48 teleplays and screenplays. He also wrote the lyrics and books for the musicals ''Belle Starr'', ''Go for Your Gun'', and ''The Peaceful Palace''. On November 15, 1997, Douglas died of heart failure at the Kit Carson Rest Home in Jackson, California, at age 86. Partial filmography * ''First Offenders'' (1939) – Tom * ''City for Conquest'' (1940) – Elevator Op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea King
Andrea King (born Georgette André Barry; February 1, 1919 – April 22, 2003) was an American stage, film, and television actress, sometimes billed as Georgette McKee. Early life Andrea King was born Georgette André Barry on February 1, 1919, in Paris, France. At the age of two months, she and her American mother, Lovinia Belle Hart, moved to the United States. She lived with her grandmother in Cleveland, Ohio, and Palm Beach, Florida, for the first four years of her life while her mother attended Columbia University in New York City. When her mother married Douglas McKee, King went to live with them in Forest Hills, Queens. As a teenager, King attended the progressive Edgewood School in Greenwich, Connecticut, a northern campus of Marietta Johnson's Organic School of Education. Playing Juliet in a school production when she was 14, she was asked to audition for a role in a Lee Shubert play, which led to other stage work. Career Andrea King appeared in Broadway plays and other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Riordan
Marjorie Riordan (January 24, 1920 – March 8, 1984) was an American motion picture actress and model. Early years Riordan was born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Her family relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she attended high school and later studied drama for two years at the University of Wisconsin from 1937 to 1939, before moving to Los Angeles, California. Career Her interest in movies grew while living near the motion picture studios, but she first took a job working as a doctor's secretary and assistant, then using her spare time to look for film related jobs on the side. While modelling in Los Angeles and making uncredited appearances in films, she was chosen for a small role in the wartime B-movie melodrama ''Parachute Nurse'' (1942). The Hollywood producer Sol Lesser and later president of the Sol Lesser Productions Inc., often looking for new faces and unknown talent, signed Riordan as a contract player after she approached him about possible rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 Films
The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1945 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 26 – The film ''National Velvet'', starring Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp and Anne Revere, is released nationally in the United States. The film is an instant critical and commercial success, propelling 12-year-old Taylor to stardom and earning Revere the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. * January 30 – Restricted release of '' Kolberg'', an historical epic which is one of the last Nazi Germany propaganda pieces, in war-torn Berlin. Given its cast of 187,000, probably fewer people view it than appear in it. * April 20 – Release of ''Son of Lassie'', the 2nd Lassie film and the first film ever to be filmed using the Technicolor Monobook method, where a single magazine of film is used to record all of the primary colors. Prior to this method, the most popular reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Short Films
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Films Directed By D
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
