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Never A Dull Moment (Rod Stewart Album)
Never a Dull Moment may refer to: * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (novel), a 1942 thriller novel by Peter Cheyney * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (1943 film), starring the Ritz Brothers The Ritz Brothers were an American family comedy act who performed extensively on stage, in nightclubs and in films from 1925 to the late 1960s. A fourth brother, George, acted as their manager. Early life The four brothers were born to Austria ... * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (1950 film), starring Irene Dunne and Fred MacMurray * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (1968 film), starring Dick Van Dyke and Edward G. Robinson * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (Rod Stewart album), released 1972 * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (Tommy Lee album), released 2002 * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (EP) by Willie the Kid & Lee Bannon, released 2010 {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never A Dull Moment (novel)
''Never a Dull Moment'' is a 1942 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It is the eight in his series of novels featuring the FBI agent Lemmy Caution.Reilly p.300 Cheyney had become known for his hardboiled Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence o ... style, similar to that of Raymond Chandler. Synopsis When an American woman is kidnapped and taken to England, supposedly by two mobsters, Lemmy Caution is hot on their trail. Soon it appears there is more to the kidnapping than at first meets the eye. References Bibliography * James, Russell. ''Great British Fictional Detectives''. Remember When, 21 Apr 2009. * Pitts, Michael R. ''Famous Movie Detectives''. Scarecrow Press, 1979. * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never A Dull Moment (1943 Film)
''Never a Dull Moment'' is a 1943 American comedy film directed by Edward C. Lilley and written by Mel Ronson and Stanley Roberts. The film stars Ritz Brothers, Frances Langford, Mary Beth Hughes, Franklin Pangborn, Stuart Crawford, George Zucco, Elisabeth Risdon and Jack La Rue. The film was released on November 19, 1943, by Universal Pictures. Plot Harry, Jimmy, and Al Ritz portray three vaudevillians ("The Three Funny Bunnies! The only act in show business that lays Easter eggs!"). Mobster Tony Rocco (George Zucco) mistakes them for gangsters and hires them for his nightclub. The Ritzes are unaware that they are expected to steal a valuable necklace from a society matron. When a pickpocket (Mary Beth Hughes) plants the jewelry on Harry, the Funny Bunnies escape, and are hunted both by the police and Rocco's gang. Cast * Al Ritz (one of the Ritz Brothers) as Al * Jimmy Ritz (one of the Ritz Brothers) as Jimmy * Harry Ritz (one of the Ritz Brothers) as Harry * Frances La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ritz Brothers
The Ritz Brothers were an American family comedy act who performed extensively on stage, in nightclubs and in films from 1925 to the late 1960s. A fourth brother, George, acted as their manager. Early life The four brothers were born to Austrian-born Jewish haberdasher Max Joachim and his wife Pauline, only three of them performed together. They also had a sister Gertrude. All three brothers were born in Newark, New Jersey. The family name was Joachim (pronounced "jo-ACK-him", Harry explained on a Joe Franklin TV interview), but the eldest brother Al, a vaudeville dancer, adopted a new professional name after he saw the name "Ritz" on the side of a laundry truck. Jimmy and Harry followed suit when the brothers formed a team. The Ritzes emphasized precision dancing in their act, and added comedy material as they went along. By the early 1930s they were stage headliners. Movie career In 1934 Educational Pictures, producers of short subjects, hired "The Three Ritz Brothers" to ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never A Dull Moment (1950 Film)
''Never a Dull Moment'' is a 1950 American comedy western film from RKO Pictures, starring Irene Dunne and Fred MacMurray. The film is based on the 1943 book ''Who Could Ask For Anything More?'' by Kay Swift. The filming took place between December 5, 1949, and February 1, 1950, in Thousand Oaks, California.Schneider, Jerry L. (2015). ''Western Filming Locations Book 1''. CP Entertainment Books. Page 133. . It has no relation to the 1968 Disney film of the same name starring Dick Van Dyke and Edward G. Robinson. Plot At a rodeo in New York, visiting cowboy Chris Heyward is charmed to make the acquaintance of Kay Kingsley, a songwriter. They marry and move out west to his ranch in Wyoming. Here, she meets Chris' two daughters from a previous marriage, Nan and Tina, and his old romantic interest, Jean Morrow. Kay tries to adjust to her new life in Wyoming, but it is hard: a windstorm threatens their home, and the children are leery of her. A rival rancher named Mears holds the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never A Dull Moment (1968 Film)
''Never a Dull Moment'' is a 1968 American heist comedy crime film from Walt Disney Productions starring Dick Van Dyke and Edward G. Robinson and directed by Jerry Paris. The script by A. J. Carothers was based The Reluctant Assassin by John Godey. The supporting cast features Dorothy Provine, Henry Silva, Slim Pickens and Jack Elam. Master cartoonist Floyd Gottfredson created a comic strip, ''Astro Pooch'', to be used as a prop in the film. It was re-released theatrically on April 15, 1977 on a double bill with a re-edited version of ''The Three Caballeros'' (1944) in featurette form. Plot Second-rate actor Jack Albany finds himself mistaken for fiendish killer Ace Williams and whisked off to master gangster Leo Smooth's fortified mansion. He is forced to continue with the charade, even when he finds he is to play a deadly role in the theft of the painting ''Field of Sunflowers'', a 40 foot long masterpiece. Sally, an art teacher, is a potential ally for Jack. Further ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never A Dull Moment (Rod Stewart Album)
Never a Dull Moment may refer to: * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (novel), a 1942 thriller novel by Peter Cheyney * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (1943 film), starring the Ritz Brothers The Ritz Brothers were an American family comedy act who performed extensively on stage, in nightclubs and in films from 1925 to the late 1960s. A fourth brother, George, acted as their manager. Early life The four brothers were born to Austria ... * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (1950 film), starring Irene Dunne and Fred MacMurray * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (1968 film), starring Dick Van Dyke and Edward G. Robinson * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (Rod Stewart album), released 1972 * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (Tommy Lee album), released 2002 * ''Never a Dull Moment'' (EP) by Willie the Kid & Lee Bannon, released 2010 {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never A Dull Moment (Tommy Lee Album)
''Never a Dull Moment'' is the first solo album by then former Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, released on May 21, 2002 by MCA. Background Tommy Lee began writing music in September 2000, following Methods of Mayhem's stint on Ozzfest. Lee described the process in a 2002 interview: :"I locked myself in my home and I just started writing. I didn't know what I wanted to do; it was more like thought'let's just write and see where this goes and make this like a natural progression.' What you hear is where it went. The more we started listening to it n the studiothe more my producer started going, 'Dude, you know, you can just call this what it is.' I was like, 'What are you talking about?' And he goes, 'Why don't you just call this Tommy Lee?' After thinking about it for a while, I realized he was right. That's when I made that decision, to just go under my own name rather than a 'band' name." ''Never a Dull Moment'' features the hit single "Hold Me Down". Its music video debute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |